Word: rodhamize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hillary Rodham Clinton appeared last Thursday to be taking it easy. Her office announced that she had only one meeting planned -- with five female Senators to discuss health care. What her aides neglected to mention, however, was that before that session Hillary had a 45-minute chat with Representative Ron Wyden about the "core benefits" package that Oregon law guarantees its eligible residents. Then came an hourlong chat with Senator Jay Rockefeller, Representative Sonny Montgomery and others about how best to integrate the nation's $14 billion veterans' hospital system into a new national health-care framework. Next she tackled...
...history of "Hillary Rodham Clinton" goes back in time, like a novel: at birth, Bill Clinton was William Jefferson Blythe, his father being a young salesman named William Jefferson Blythe 3rd, who died in a car accident before Bill was born. In a story now familiar, the 15-year-old future President legally changed his name to Bill Clinton in order to affirm family solidarity with his mother and stepfather, Roger Clinton. In 1975, when Bill Clinton got married, his new wife chose to keep the name Hillary Rodham. But five years later, Clinton was defeated...
...name may announce something -- or conceal something. In some societies, ; the Arab or Chinese, for example, a beautiful child may be called by a depreciating name -- "Dog," "Stupid," "Ugly," say -- in order to ward off the evil eye. Hillary Rodham knew that in some parts of the political wilds, she attracted the evil eye to the 1992 Democratic ticket. So during her demure, cookie-baker phase, she was emphatically "Hillary Clinton," mute, nodding adorer and helpmate of Bill. She half-concealed herself in "Hillary Clinton" until the coast was clear. With the Inauguration, the formal, formidable triple name has lumbered...
...name problem for married women is a clumsy mess. Married women have four or more choices. 1) Keep the last name they were given at birth. 2) Take the husband's last name. 3) Use three names, as in Hillary Rodham Clinton; or, as women did in the '70s, join the wife's birth name and the husband's birth name with a hyphen -- a practice that in the third generation down the road would produce geometrically expanded multiple-hyphenated nightmares. 4) Use the unmarried name in most matters professional, and use the husband's name in at least some...
...Hillary Rodham Clinton may find her name changing still further as her White House power evolves. Perhaps by next year, she will be known as "H.R. Clinton." Maybe the year after that, she will be "H.R. (Bob) Clinton...