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Four years ago, Bill Clinton became the first candidate to reinvent First Ladydom when he joked that with Hillary, Americans could buy one and get one free. That proved too true for his own good. The Dole camp, having studied the pathology of Hillary's troubles early last year, is eager to argue that this is a marriage, not a political partnership. Dole has called Elizabeth his "secret weapon," his "Southern strategy," all the while making it clear that he is old-fashioned about the East Wing, that Elizabeth won't be sitting in on Cabinet meetings and serving...
This is all the more ironic, given the fact that Elizabeth Dole, at 59 the only woman ever to serve in two different Cabinet posts for two different Presidents, has probably attended more Cabinet meetings than either Bob Dole or Bill Clinton. And that the 48-year-old Hillary, in a sense, is the more traditional of the two, the one who passed up the fancy New York City law firm and moved to Arkansas for love. Elizabeth put her career first, found her love later in life and never had children. Hillary is the soccer mom of the pair...
Elizabeth Dole now finds herself under the lights, well rehearsed, before an audience curious to see what she may bring to the role. Polls find that she is marginally more popular than Hillary but far less well known. So as the scrutiny begins in earnest, she will have a chance to offer her own interpretation of a much reinvented part and demonstrate just what she has learned from those who have played it before...
...speeches to religious groups, Elizabeth Dole tells the story of Esther, the Old Testament heroine confronted with a harrowing choice. When Esther, the wife of the Persian King Xerxes, learns of a plot to kill all the Jews in the kingdom, she has a decision to make: To try to save her people, should she risk her life by revealing to the king that she is a Jewess? Or should she remain silent, deny her faith and preserve her wifely prestige and power? After much soul searching, Esther chooses faith...
Like Esther, Mrs. Dole says, "there came a time when I had to confront what commitment to God is all about." Dole's identification with Esther is curious. Some parallels are obvious. Esther revels in her proximity to the King. She is one of the shrewdest and most political women in the Bible. But what has Elizabeth Dole risked compared with Esther? What has this two-time Cabinet Secretary, this former high-level White House aide, this $200,000-a-year president of the American Red Cross, this potential First Lady, sacrificed in her own life...