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...First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton said the 15 recipients "have earned the gratitude of every American." After describing the history of the award, she introduced President Clinton, who spoke about each recipient before awarding the medals, which feature a white star on a gold and red background hanging on a blue and white ribbon...
...HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON Ethnic-slur charge is trivial pursuit, but (Oy!) it's another headache you didn't need...
...rule, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rudy Giuliani don't hang out together--they were nasty rivals in the New York Senate race until cancer and marital weirdness forced Giuliani out--but right now they find themselves trapped in a peculiarly modern circle of hell: the one inhabited by subjects of tell-all books...
...first to trace the Rodhams back to a "raw and sparse" life in Scranton, Pa., where Hillary's grandfather worked 16-hour days in a lace factory and most of his relatives were "exhausted laborers, blistered farmers...drab loners, prudish spinsters, lonely bachelors, and sad drinkers." Her great-uncle George Beale Rodham was "an aberration in a family of underachievers," a second-tier political boss. The author suggests she inherited her skills from him. Other Rodhams ran "a fleabag hotel and a beer-and-gin-joint...in the heart of Scranton's infamous red-light district...
While Hillary's childhood is usually described as solidly middle class, Oppenheimer offers a grim portrait. Hugh Rodham may have driven a Cadillac and owned a home in a white-bread Chicago suburb, he writes, but he was a cheapskate who refused to take care of the place, and his drapery business was a one-man shop with walls stained brown from chewing-tobacco juice. Hillary has her brother Tony to thank for many of these details, since Tony told Oppenheimer about a cousin, Oscar Dowdy, who became the source for them. Dowdy also says that Hillary's mother...