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...Eleanor Mondale? Who is the one woman in Washington who could make Monica turn green? Twice married, twice divorced; a leggy blonde with a self-confessed "dodgy taste in men," the 38-year-old Mondale is no stranger to the White House or to the Clintons. Daughter of former vice president Walter Mondale, Eleanor started raising eyebrows at an early age. As an outgoing 17-year-old, she first hit the headlines after President Carter's inaugural ball in 1977, where she turned up in a tuxedo. Her four years as the Second Daughter, she said later, "changed my life...
When Carter and Mondale lost the 1980 election to Reagan and Bush, Eleanor was far from the gloom in Washington. At the time she was a sophomore in St. Lawrence University in Canton, N.Y.; a phys ed major who dreamed -- like so many girls her age -- of making it big in Hollywood. Unlike the other girls, however, her famous name helped take her there, and Eleanor Mondale made her TV debut in January 1981 on the ABC show "240-Robert." She played a bank teller, and spoke exactly six words: "Here's Miss Harper's file, Mr. Talmadge...
...middle of all this despondency, her dad ran for president. And it was in 1984, at the age of 24, that Eleanor first met Governor Clinton of Arkansas, who was helping the doomed Democratic candidate in any way he could. They struck up a friendship that, Mondale says, lasts to this day. Meantime, her work situation was still pretty dismal -- although the Mondale name now had added cachet, helping land her guest spots in "Dynasty" and "Three's Company." In the former, she played a TV anchor woman; in the latter, a medical intern who inspects John Ritter's rear...
...Detroit, Mondale attended a Clinton fund-raiser at the Hollywood home of producer Lew Wasserman. Now clearly a name in her own right, she managed to upstage fellow celebs Barbra Streisand and Richard Baskin. Gossip columnists went wild over that alone -- "Streisand sulked because Clinton only had eyes for Eleanor," reported the Daily Mail. The Washington Post added that Mondale, Streisand and others joined Clinton in his private suite for a final drink, and "stayed up late with him nibbling fruit...
...last episode, our heroine discovered that the President was with Eleanor Mondale when he was supposed to be meeting with bankers. Monica became "livid," according to the Starr Report, and stormed home to her Watergate apartment. The story continues...