Word: rodhamize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...race was not Hillary's first experience with expedient self-censorship. Bill Clinton lost his first re-election bid as Governor in part because voters did not like the way this attorney out of Yale and Wellesley kept her maiden name. After she began answering to Clinton instead of Rodham and acting more like an archetypal wife and mother, she gradually expanded her role. Over the years she headed up an education task force that instituted a competency test for teachers, brought a neonatal-care unit and two fully equipped hospital helicopters to the state and introduced a home- instruction...
Before the campaign switched into high gear, the Clintons would eat dinner at least once a week with Bill's mother and stepfather and Hillary's parents, who moved from Chicago to Little Rock a few years ago. On such occasions, says Dorothy Rodham, Hillary's mother, they all subscribe to the theory that it is more important who is around the table than what's on it -- which is fortunate for Hillary, who admits she served black beans, chili and leftovers from an official dinner as last year's Christmas meal...
People remember pictures, and the Clinton campaign has its share of winning images. In a precious film clip, teenaged bill Clinton shakes hands with President Kennedy. Bold Hillary Rodham strides across the Yale Law School library and introduces herself to a gawking fellow student...
...Hillary Rodham Clinton is the exception. Twice, she has expressed her resentment of stereotypical expectations of female subordination. And each time, her motivations have been ignored and she has been miscast as the one who promotes insensitive stereotypes. Her response to this has been to tone down her independent-woman persona and become more like June Cleaver than Murphy Brown...
...Hillary Rodham came to Arkansas to help with the campaign, and -- when the House staff disbanded after Nixon's resignation -- she took up an offer the dean had made her, to come teach and run a legal clinic at Fayetteville. From the time they met at Yale, the two had circled each other warily -- Clinton confessing that he thought, "Oh-oh, this woman is trouble -- the one I could love." She had joined him in Texas during the McGovern campaign of 1972, where he was a paid member of Gary Hart's staff, and she was a vote registrar...