Word: rodhamize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON CAME TO THE job of First Lady determined to be taken seriously. She got her wish. In these first weeks of the presidential-campaign year, Washington and the rest of America are taking her more seriously than ever, though not in the way she hoped. As she set across the U.S. this week to promote her book on children's issues, what some people were asking, perhaps unfairly, is whether her real gift might be for fiction...
...insistence.'' As for McLarty, a 1993 note from White House aide Lorraine Voles, which emerged last week, suggested his motivation. Scribbling at a White House meeting, Voles wrote that Susan Thomases, a close friend of Mrs. Clinton's, told McLarty that HRC, meaning Hillary Rodham Clinton, "wants these people fired." And a McLarty chronology relating to the travel office has an entry, "May 16: HRC pressure...
...just when the First Lady was preparing to return to the political stage after a year quietly refashioning her image into a combination of Martha Stewart and Mother Teresa, Hillary Rodham Clinton now faces a crisis that even the most artful public relations may not be able to fix. Within the space of 48 hours last week, the sudden discovery of controversial records has cast new light on her role in two controversies: the purge of the White House Travel Office in 1993 and her work at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock for Madison Guaranty, the Whitewater savings...
Republicans ordered new hearings following the release of a two-year-old Administration memo that identifies Hillary Rodham Clinton as the major player behind the controversial mass firings of White House travel-office employees in 1993. The late deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster was mentioned several times in the memo, leading the Whitewater independent counsel to express dismay that it was not released sooner. Late last week, lawyers for the First Lady also released newly "discovered" billing records of her legal work for the S&L at the heart of the Whitewater probe. Investigators have long sought the documents...
...President, if he were not the President, would have delivered a more forceful response to that, on the bridge of Mr. Safire's nose." --White House spokesperson Mike McCurry, on the President's response to New York Times columnist William Safire, who referred to First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton as "a congenital liar...