Word: rodhamize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attorneys at the Rose Law Firm of Little Rock have always liked to operate near the center of power. Their first woman partner was Hillary Rodham Clinton, who got the title in 1979, the same year her husband became Governor. When she became First Lady, she took three other partners with her to Washington, where Vincent Foster and William Kennedy became White House counsels and Webster Hubbell was named Associate Attorney General. The future looked so promising that Rose opened a one-man Washington operation to explore opportunities for establishing a permanent office...
...Hillary Rodham Clinton has never had much use for the national press corps, but by late last week, when the pressure for her to tell what she knew about Whitewater was rattling the very walls of the White House, she finally agreed to let select reporters through the door. It was her first news interview in weeks, and her first ever devoted to Whitewater, but this was no charm offensive: she met her guests from TIME not in the customary spots -- the solarium or the family quarters -- but in a combat zone, the Map Room where Franklin Roosevelt plotted troop...
...disdain for the national press, Hillary Rodham Clinton had a long honeymoon. By and large, reporters have gently chronicled her reinvention of the First Lady's office as she added a major policy role to the traditional portfolio of hostess and cheerleader. The glowing press accounts of her crusade for health-care reform, full of charmed lawmkers and cheering crowds, helped boost her popularity higher than her husband's at times. Profiles charted the spiritual journey that inspired her social activism, the theologians she read, the ministers she admired. The New York Times Magazine dressed her in white silk...
...White House press conference the President lashed out at questions about the role of Hillary Rodham Clinton in the affair, saying, "I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life -- ever." As the first three of six subpoenaed White House officials appeared before a grand jury, Republican Senators appeared willing to let the investigation continue for several months before demanding public hearings...
...major impact is going to be on Hillary Rodham Clinton...She played a much more direct role [than Clinton]" in the financial dealings in question," Dershowitz said. "Having been in the Rose firm was a great qualification for going to Washington. Soon it will be seen as a disqualification...