Word: dolley
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with those defeats, Hillary also began to accept what Dolley Madison and Lady Bird Johnson had taken for granted, and what Eleanor Roosevelt must have told her when the two communed. As her former chief of staff Maggie Williams put it, "One of the things she's learned about being First Lady is, it's not just about doing, it's about being a symbol." Whatever judgments voters were asked to make about the flaws they would tolerate in a reckless politician whose leadership they valued, she mirrored in her own decisions about a faithless husband whom she loved...
...White House up to a conference on Capitol Hill last Tuesday afternoon--only to find the room completely empty. Arriving back home minutes later, she received further evidence that something was afoot when her husband, dressed as James Madison, urged her into a costume suitable for Dolley. It was, after all, Mrs. Clinton's birthday...
Everyone danced. When one of the first on the floor turned out to be Hillary's mom, Dorothy Rodham (dressed as a mother superior), Dolley Madison exclaimed in mock horror, "That's my mother...
...drove away. Was it a calculated hit or the demented act of a lonely psychopath? Police took all the usual steps: examining fingerprints on one victim's car, retrieving a spent shell casing, checking local gun shops for recent purchases of semiautomatic weapons and stopping commuters along Dolley Madison Boulevard in hopes of finding further witnesses. At week's end the killer and his motive remained a mystery despite the best efforts of federal and local investigators and support personnel...