Word: rodhamize
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...journalistic Clinton watchers in Little Rock. When several people told me that Bill Clinton brought them into the state and took them on tours of its beauties, Brummett said, "I wonder what they could be. Maybe he should take me on one of those tours." When Hillary Rodham first came to Arkansas, it took Clinton nine hours to drive the one-hour's distance from Little Rock's airport to his mother's home in Hot Springs. He showed off everything from mountain lookouts (Dardanelle and Mount Nebo) to obscure purveyors of fried pies -- a local delicacy Clinton has loved...
Clinton has instilled a new sense of pride in many citizens of his state. Ms. Rodham was shocked when she arrived at the University of Arkansas Law School and had a student complain of her demands: "What do you expect of me? I'm only from Arkansas." She did not realize that he might have been guying this traveler into Arkansas, in the defensive old form of mockery; but even this hangdog defiance of the outer world masked an uneasiness about the state's reputation. Journalists covering Clinton in Little Rock are constantly asked by a suspicious citizenry, "What have...
...office, but not locally -- this was the Republican corner of Arkansas, after all. But as the 1974 race approached, the popular Congressman from that area, John Paul Hammerschmidt, strongly vouched for Nixon, who was under fire for the Watergate offenses. Clinton knew, from his close friend Hillary Rodham, how vulnerable Nixon was to impeachment -- she had accepted the offer to work on the staff that he refused. The two were visiting each other, back and forth between Washington and Fayetteville, and spending long hours on the telephone. He was kept informed of her work, of her virtual certitude that Nixon...
PERSONAL Married to Hillary Rodham Clinton, a lawyer. One daughter...
Last fall, before the whispers became a crescendo, Clinton, with his wife by his side, shrewdly pre-empted the buzz by telling reporters that his 16-year marriage to the former Hillary Rodham had been less than perfect. Whatever it was that he was admitting -- and he refused to be specific -- he said he was proud of still being married. As to the exact nature of his problems, Clinton asserted they were no one else's business. The revelation was received as a welcome exercise in truth telling, and the issue faded from view...