Word: rodhamize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these questions loom, Clinton has begun once more to participate personally in the planning. Since April, he had pretty much let the Administration task force, which is headed by his wife Hillary Rodham Clinton, operate on its own. But the President began meeting with key members of the task force again over the weekend -- and not a minute too soon. He will have to preside over something of a split between the forces of the left, led by Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala, and those of the right, led by Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen. "Given their druthers," said...
...Designing Women producer and Clinton adviser Harry Thomason, who has ensconced himself in a White House office, is trying to curtail the trend. "We don't want to discourage the enthusiasm," said Thomason last week, "but yes, there may be too many of them around." Maybe so, but Hillary Rodham Clinton was so impressed by a recent Liza Minnelli performance that she invited the singer to stop by for a visit next month...
...Hillary Rodham Clinton is already a standout among First Ladies. Just take a look at a program for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, pictured above, where she's an honorary chairman of the board of trustees, along with seven former First Ladies. The others are listed as female versions of their husbands (Mrs. Gerald R. Ford, Mrs. Aristotle Onassis), and only Clinton is entered under her own name...
While her husband has been holed up in the White House realizing how overwhelming his job actually is, Hillary Rodham Clinton has been burnishing her public image and readying the political ground for the massive health care reform package she will soon present. With two essential constituencies--Congress and the public--her strategy has been almost everything Bill Clinton's should be. (I say almost because she has insisted upon hiding from the public not only her task force's deliberations, but also its innocuous "fact-gathering" sessions--even to the point of resorting to illogical legal arguments...
...start predicting the 1996 election results yet. President Clinton's return to the campaign trail this week may have been long overdue, but it certainly was not too late. He still has time to be another Hillary Rodham Clinton...