Hillary Clinton speaks to a <«tow watch party at the Craig Ranch Regional Amphitheater in Rorth Las Yogas on October M a resounding victory in the third and final presidential dehate. During a particularly strong shouting, Clinton hit hack at Trump'sahetork concerning ISIS, hemic Sanders s endorsement and the economy. During her time as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton spearheaded the increase of exports to China, as well as the re-thinking of climate policy beginning in Copenhagen in 2009, and helped create the toughest sanctions on Iran of the Obama presidency. PRESIDENT CLINTON H E 201 6 presidential election was unique in a number of ways: It saw the first major-part} female nominee for the highest office in the country, the improbable rise of the kind of demagogue previously unknown in American politics and enough infighting ! mudslinging for 10 election cycles. But as the tone of the election grew darker and more /.nre b} the day President-Elect Hillary Clinton “went high"when her opponent and his supporters went ever lower. No stranger to trudging through the mire of misogynv in her i eer as first lady, senator and secretary of state, President-Elect Clinton continued to push foi an issues-based campaign even as a handful of Trumps most deplorable supporters, seeing t he wide margin Clinton held among female voters, called to repeal the 19th amendment. ' election day, Americans across the country roundly rejected the kind of fear and hate- I »ased conservatism peddled by Donald Trump and elected the first woman in US. history to the presidency. The culminating election of a career in politics spanning three decades and arguably more experience than any other incoming president 2016s was not an ease race to w atch, comment^on or be a part of— but when the dust cleared it revealed a priceless moment in American history. The highest glass ceiling in the Western World had finallv shattered. PARK RIDGE TO PENN AVE Hillary Clinton's political career began in the 1960s, but it evolved through various phases before her first trip to the White House. 30 SENATE AND STATE After her time as first lady, Hillary Clinton became the first presidential spouse to run for public office, becoming the senator from New York. 56 MADAM PRESIDENT The final frontier for American female politicians was the presidency, and Hillary Clinton was able to win the most contentious election ever for the honor of crossing it. FOOWT covet BE J -EPS ACAHV D«.TAL IMAGING BV ER'C HE!N t Z BACK COVE* SWUmWTCCTl PARK RIDG1 PENNSYLVANIA On September 10, 1998, the Clintons were overseeing th« largest budget growth in the history of the nation a* they made their way across the South Lawn of the White House, The surplus and balanced budget left by Bill were touted during Hillary's 2008 and 2016 campaigns. AVENUE ■■pi ■ | Making a stop in Arkansas to become its first lady, Hillary Clinton got where she belonged— Washington. W ELLESLEY COLLEGE in 1969 was the setting for Hillary Clinton’s first big speech, her class commencement address, which thrust her into the spotlight for the first time but certainly not the last. Clinton's speech made news in part because she chided Sen. Edward Brooke, who was sharing the dais wfth her. A liberal Republican, Brooke was the first popularly elected black senator and enjoyed wide popularity with Democrats and Republicans alike in Massachusetts, where Wellesley is located. He gave the keynote speech moments before Clinton poke But Brooke was a supporter of President Richard Nixon's police - in Vietnam, and Clinton took advantage of the high-profile occasion to offer a gentle rebuke “I find rnyself reacting just briefly to some of the things that .Sen Brook* -said This has to be quick b*'an < I do h r * a little -.p**di to give. Fart of the problem with just empathy with professed goals is that * nipat h\ d"* n f do us anything," Clinton said W* v* had lot* <■< empathy; we re had lots of sympathy, hut w fed that for too long our l*ad* rs ha\. v irwr,l politic -• as the art of the possible And the . halknge- no" is to practice politics ao th* art of making 'vh*« appears to be impossible posdbl*- Tbe speech becam* par» of a f.if* magazine cover story ori '/be Cla== of r »o. who h in- Ind* *1 other prominent campus speaker**, in. hiding <*** Magaziner from Br>/wn l/niv*-rsitK who went on «•» becz/me a top Clinton adviser On the campaign trail, ( linton had f Jh«r«Hoo ■9 The release of her speech, which seems to point to a part of Clinton that contradicts everything Sanders painted her as, came as Clinton and Sanders headed into the last big primary day of the election cycle. On June 7, six states, including delegate-rich California and New Jersey voted and Clinton managed to increase her delegate lead, all but clinching the nomination. Clinton attended Wellesley from 1965 to 1969. She was the first student to give a commencement speech at the university, and was chosen unanimously by her classmates for the honor. One of the peers she thanked personally was Eleanor Acheson, who remains a close friend of Clintons n is. h\ a happy coincidence, the £randdaugh tfr one of Clintons predecessors, the late Secretary of state Dean Acheson. BY TAYLOR WOFFORD, 6/6/16 l l : 12 -HILLARY CLINTON V PARK RIDGE TO PCMtl AVE We [have felt] that for too viewed politics as the art of the ° Ur 'uf*™ ^ challenge now is practice ' ',0 °“ , And the making what appears to be im ‘ Vf the art of We're no, interested “* P0 - ttfe “ human reconstruction. How can ™ Wur Z percentages and trends? Th„ f k about no, lost in our analyses,' bu, plZTlhT’ ** put tnto what we consider a more ^^Jssive perspective. d - Question about possible and • was one that w*> k . ^ e and im P° s sible understood having grown ^ a “ Itudes are easi] y men with i S grwn up... dominated by thTthere wa " We " esle ^" d realities. W eXPeCtation and didn’t turn us into d scouraging gap and it the age of 18 It i, Cyn,caI - b,tter G, d women at about that gap. ,nsp,red us to do something 4 Z?Z?fZ ydissentjs an att ™i« * atforgi,,.. has me Z partlc,,,ar a S e - Th at attempt •>um2„i s titZ"" ,n ' mSt0,ermSwit '' 0 - £e perceive.. Jr ,! a u C °" tet of a that cssibilitv frV 1 ^ ° Vers °^ en between the ^aLl ^ ^ thG Pitiably for There's thT SP ° nd j ng to nien ’s needs, eople mUtUa,ity of aspect between oints. Whe^you^on’t r 35 percenta ge -here vonv/ ? manipulate people. for pe:r^r s ;; u n ::rr in socia, -A-** listing in an ° F an ,nte S ra ted life atmosphere of communal trust t hea dd r ess (EXCERPTS) ,°° long our leaders have , . P^ted^con d “ Peratd5 ' “ PUrta “ consequencesTcoo? eqUeDCeS future ... p”r , C “ tapultS “ the have time for i^Nm no J ,th b " '*'■**»»* the spearhead for this, and also N ZZsZ'Z Who wrote this poem- * ' Scbmbner Mvs, b quie , lmglucT ^ ^ ^ he hollow men of anger and bittcrncs s must be left to a bygone age. And the purpose of history is to provide a receptacle Whirl ^7 ^ which oddly toe have acquired ZT m,ate ,hefi ‘ ,m in, ° thr ?<»«. 11 J? ™ ed< >SM* revalue ™ rU •*«* ‘■ategories tend to tyrannize our minds And hang our wills up on narrow pegs ,*? W f at ever V &ven moment to seek the limits in our lives. And once those limits are understood Fnl Th fr / tha ' »o i-ngvr e.uri, “ , coM I'tfair. And you and I rant h, * Not to save Mr world in a glorion* cnaad, Sot to kill mirseltus frith a namelem gnawing pain But to practice with all the tHll of out he,„t the art of making possible. Got/. Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton of Arkansas meet with BUI Shaffiaid, tha governor of Alaska, at tha Democratic national Committee Meeting In Lot Angelas, 1991, Hillary Clinton served as tha state’s first lady twice, once from 1979 to 1981 before Bill was ousted during the so-called Reagan Revolution, and again from 1983 to ) 992, when the couple left Arkansas for the presidential campaign trail. NO FIRST HOUSEWIFE The 1992 election introduced a national audience to Hillary Clinton— and those who were frightened by her strength. R EAD MY LIPS— no new taxes” turned out to be a phrase that made two presidents. By the time Bill Clinton ran for the office in 1992, it was a promise that • as already broken. Clinton was cruisi ig to the White House. And through it all- the implosion of George H.W. Bushs candidacy, TheArseriio Hall Shaw, the first of many right-wing, anti-Clinton pogroms- 1 1 illary Clinton was in the spotlight as she redefined the role of a political wife (espec ially one ostensibly from the South) simply by being who she was From the outset of her life in the national spotlight she refksed to be pigeonholed into traditional, ceremonial roles like hosting FLasler egg rolls. She made it clear there would be a first couple in the White f louse from now on, not a meek and submissive housewife and her larger-than-life American hero. Conservative pundits immediately voiced their concern over Hillary's strong personality, despite the fact that the previous first lady, Barbara Bush was by all accounts a policy hawk who would not be out of serious discussions and Bushs predecessor; Nancy Reagan, helped run the country to various degrees at various times through her influence, astrology charts and perhaps unique knowledge her husband’s actual health. Hillary Clinton h.ul [>ain ted negatively in the national press as a and ambitious first lady but was already prepared handle the abuse heaped on her by the right in the best way she knew— by attempting to further legacy at every opportunity, whether it meant t a stand for disenfranchised women in the thin! or t lying to overhaul our broken health care sytert Throughout the first Clinton White I louse. ' ' hi sal to back-burner herself to take can? Of nrtMnf the hirst Home continued to rub social eon'-eO* 1 ''^ the wrong wav. When Roger Stone, a prominent Republican ad* tune, came out with the following statement ' '"'Id I'hely incite a Hot in 2016 in a Mattteeh lv "' '" hi ie, it seemed to many in 1992 to be a snunn*'' ' ( Antons nibbed eonservatbes the "»on$ • 1 n, > C Imton is exceedingly polarising- h* nn accomplished modem woman. H* H i- ? rHl 'ng, abrasive and boastful. There* a , : le,,,r *b i ngs,andthenotfortofari^ and ln * ' » VV l,ite f ,m,se is a little offensive to WOmen - 1 'i'lHiy has never been shy about i A Owing • Chicago rally on St. Patrick's ©ay, 1WJ, Bill and MBIary Clinton celebrate Ws victory m the Mktoys" and H tfcwl s prtiharies. : the "fam il lar order off ther did f teem to be of the opin ' order is r best one, with ber multitude oi • nces to the icrifasr fard bter -ici- .-usd r refusal to ttheifctttt* qooof \tntr\f c. on abroad. <.fj ( a of the White ■Hnrr ;>assive Hfeflfarv ' i rent changed— they all come from the same places they did then, and as detractors have remained stalwart, so has she. Despite being placed on trial in the court of public opinion at every turn in her career. Hillarv continued to move forward continued to be a thorn in the side of those who in 1592 started the trend of calling her “abrasive” and their heirs, and continued straight on until she won the White House. MILLABV CLINTON 17 Hillary Rodham Clinton lit* on the lap of her hu*b#nd, Democratic pre*»d*nti*l candidate Ml Clinton, a. the j«*»» with vita pnttidantial candidate At Cote and hi* wife, Tipper, In a brief re*t on their but during the IM2 campaign. In 1992, Hillary Clinton sat dovjn •. her opinions about living in Arkansas Ne ^eek and gave and how having children ch for the White >0,| tical agendas. You grew up in suburban Chicago, went to Wellesley and then Yale. Moving to Arkansas must have been a bit of a shock. When 1 met Bill Clinton, he was the hi st person J ever met from Arkansas. And when 1 first visited Arkansas [in 1973], 1 really did not know what to expect. He picked me up at the airport in Little Rock. He lived in Hot Springs, which was like an hour away. We drove eight hours. He took me to all these places he thought were beautiful. We went to all the state parks. We went to all the overlooks. And then we’d stop at his favorite barbecue place. Then we’d go down the road and stop at his favorite fried-pie place. My head was reeling because I didn’t know’ w'hat I was going to see or what I w r as expecting. And then in ’74, he’d asked me to marry him and he said, “I know' this is really a hard choice because I’m committed to living in Arkansas.” -And I’d say, “Yeah, it’s a really hard choice." And I just finally decided, you know, this is no way to make a decision. When you love somebody, you just have to go and see what it's like. So I moved to Arkansas and started teaching at the law school. I had a lot of apprehension, partly because 1 didn’t know anybody and did not know how I d be received. And I got to Fayetteville, Arkansas, and started teaching at the law’ school within the space of about 48 hours. It all happened very quickly. .And I loved it. The people were warm and welcoming to me. I felt very much at home. And it was a shock to H a place in public life. Born in Chicago and educated at Wellesley and Yale Law School, Clinton is a nationally known activist on education and childrens issues and was recenth named one of the nations top 100 lawyers by th< Nat ional Law’ Journal. She stirred resentment in Arkansas when she initially declined to take her hu l nd’s surname-relenting only after it became a p al liability tor him. ILLARY CLINTON is the president’s most articulate defender. She represents a new’ generation of political waves: She's an accomplished professional with perhaps as much claim as her husband to me because I had never lived in t lie South or in a small place before. It gave me a perspective on life and helped me understand what it was like for most people.... I think I’ve had a more interesting time of it than I would have if I had chickened out and not followed my heart. In terms of your family, how did they regard marrying a fellow from Arkansas? Was there any Chicago bias about the Deep South? I think there was, on the part of not just my family but my friends. You know, my friends loved Bill, but they thought I was going to the end HILLARV CLINTON • 21 of the earth- They had no idea what hfe was going to be like. My father was more concerned that he was a Democrat than [from Arkansas]. Great arguments, great arguments. Where did your sense of social responsibility come from? From two places. My parents always had a strong sense of what was fair. Not necessarily any social content to it, but what was fair and not fair. And then one of the most influential people in my life was my south minister when I was growing up in the Methodist church. Here we were, these white suburban kids at the Methodist church on Sunday night, and he’d come in...and he’d say, “We re going downtow n to visit with some young people who are just like you." And we d go downtown and have these exchanges with Hispanic kids and black kids We had a lot of farms still in my neighborhood in those days. And bed set up programs so that the girls in my church group would go out and babysit the migrant children while their parents worked He just was relentless in telling us that to be a Christian did not just mean you were concerned about your own personal salvation. — ... „ S.IM1UIIUUU, Willi UIC IIUIIUI VI growing up with his stepfather [who Clinton says was abusive toward his mother], affected his behavior as a husband and father? II' one thing I want to say in preface to that, 1 thin the horrors of it can be way overstated. The importan ing about Bill Clinton's upbringing is that he a ways surrounded by love. He had a mother "In despit optimistic and positive and determined t**' . * . *^ ,f hestofit — and to love his children.. . I h* f rh it tried l ° understan d his stepfather, it became a b hi ng‘ to him toward the end of his stepfather'^ •was d • e ^ 3 PBConc 'hation.. l . When RogefClio" 'ain!ih, nk ,hi '’ ,a - v " a «•* ki " d ;‘ Duke pin ' " as getting medical treatment frequently 7** Geor ^ to " n. And Bill drove ^ [Billl w ° Sechim - overwhelm! h -V fatherhood. He wAa ly 11 I y e heard him sav that wh*» he saw his child, he realized it was more than his own father got to do. [Clinton’s natural father died before he was born.] And he has worked very hard and has been a real supportive father. Where did your daughter’s name— Chelsea- come from? We were in England— ’78, ’79, can’t remember. Anyway, we were trying to have a child, something we were working on. And it was this glorious morning. We were going to brunch and we were walking through Chelsea, you know', the flowerpots were out and everything. And Bill started singing, “It’s a Chelsea morning." Remember that old song? Judy Collins song. At Wellesley, a commencement speech that you gave made Time magazine. Well, it was 1969- And some of my classmates came to me late in the spring and said we don t think it’s right that Wellesley has never let a student speak at graduation. And we want to go to the administration and ask them to let us have a student speak because we think we deserve to have our voices heard, and we want you to do it. Anyway, it got w'orked out that I would be on the program after Sen. [Edward] Brooke. And I was really honored that they wanted me to talk. I guess I was the natural choice because I was president of the college government. People wrote what they wanted me to say. They sent me poems. It became a real collective effort. But basically what they wanted me to do was to try to communicate what it had been like: the four years of the buildup of the Vietnam War, the assassination of Mart in I. other King, Bobb\ Kennedy, the burning ot the cities. I his was an incredible time to lie through. And Sen. Brooke gave a very ■ ! 1 e 1, conventional speech in which he basically took a kind of Republican apologist li - ■ about what wa happening, w r hat President Nixon was doing. It was exactly the kind of message my classmates felt they didn t want as their last remembrance of Wellesley. When I spoke, 1 responded to his not having really addressed the concerns of the people about to go into this world. Bill didn’t run in ’88 in part because he didn’t think your child was old enough to be part of this maelstrom. Has she been asking any questions? We’ve talked to her ever since she was about 6 or 7 years old about campaigns and the kinds of things people say. She and I were in the supermarket last week when the story broke in one of those supermarket tabloids. I said, w r ell, you know those magazines here may run some stories about your dad-and I told her that what we heard was going to be in one of them. We’ve tried to be real honest with her, too. We want her to feel she’s a part of this, and that we’re not protecting her from something she may find out about from a friend at school or the TV or being in a supermarket line. And she’s fully aware that in a campaign people say things about each other that are not true, and that they are accusations. We started preparing her for that back in ’86-Bill w as going to have a contested primary, and Orval Faubus was one of his opponents — and I knew that C helsea by that time was old enough to turn on the TV and pay attention. And we were at dinner one nighl and 1 told her, your daddy is going to run for governor again, and when people run for office, other people say things about them. And her eyes got real big she just couldn’t imagine that— and 1 said, you just need to be ready for that. Now you just pretend to be your daddy and w hat would you say if you want to run for governor. And she said something like, “I’ve done a good job— elect me." FROM THE NEWSWEEK ARCHIVE, BY ELEANOR CLIFT, 2/3/1992 HILLARY CUNTON >1 M the National Garden Gala, "A Tribute to America* firm L ad i ot ” it the U,f, Botanic Gordon in 1994, each living lint lady, from toft: Nancy Reagan, Lady Bird Johnton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Rocalynn Carter, Betty ford and Barbara Both. POWER AS first lady, HRC did evervthi., she could to bring women-* f hl '"g ■nto the mainstream all ov " * ' SSUes over the world. United States Ambassador to the United Nations Madeleine Albright •companies Hillary Clinton in Prague on a diplomatic trip in 199 €. Albright became the first female secretary of state the following year. PARK RIDGE TO PENN AVE BABOONS weren't interested. Hi:: try Rodham Clinton was : her subject. While a couple • watched from a nearby more taken by the remnants of n - *5 r h ig h-profile \isitor, the fi rst [•sis on women's advancement. . n idi a that [women] could be t A ft d from beneath the shade of an acacia tree in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park, ‘there certainly can no longer be." Not if the first lady has anything to do with it, anyway. As she toured Africa last week. Mrs. Clinton once again tried to highlight the plight of women around the world. Mrs. Clinton’s interest has helped shake up America's foreign-policy bureaucracy. “The administration has really sounded a trumpet through the first lady," says Jill Merrick of the International Center for Research on Women in Washington. The shift in policy has become only more pronounced under new Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Earlier this year, Albright ordered U.S. diplomats to monitor women's rights as an integral objective of American foreign policy. Just last week, Albright traveled to North Carolina, the home state of Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms, to argue for Senate approval of the United Nations' convention on women s rights. The international treaty, which compels signatories to battle sex discrimination, is languishing in the Senate And Albright's power extends beyond Foggy Bottom: She has just taken the chairmanship of the interagency panel that coordinates all U.S. government response to international womens issues— from Treasury to the CIA. "We’re making a difference, sax’s Theresa Loar. who was appointed last fall by Warren Christopher to coordinate international womens issues at State. From her office on the department's all-powerful seventh floor. Loar's influence has grown under Albright. While neither the first lady nor Albright had a deep interest in international womens issues before 1992. each has come to be captivated In the cause. Mrs. Clinton has used a varietx of forums — from United Nations conferences to anti-prostitution programs in Thailand— to make her point that "women's rights are human rights " Friends say that the two— who have traveled overseas together— reinforce each other's interest. hiuakv a inton ♦ J7 “As they’ve traveled around the world,” says one insider, “they’ve been moved by what they’ve heard. Whether this zeal will improve the sorry lot of many of the world’s women is another question. From Afghanistan (where the ultrareligious Taliban regime has banned girls from school) to Zimbabwe (where girls are still offered as settlement in disputes between families), millions of women live under a tyranny that would make even the worst male chauvinist bridle. On ill c rnsad,. make a difference? T. Anu ' ! . can officials say that it already fee ( l 1n ' nt to a number of projects where, tb v ; i f n , ( ’ ni0( lest American investments hsv* Embt " Ke ^’^ends. In Rome, the U.S to ann,? f Uccessf «» y lobbied the city’s rr?ce Women’s\ff VOrnan &S head of the oflVf ' ^ airs a post previously held h' *' ■ I , a What we are doing is building up a reserve of ed ucated women — teachers, scientists, computer operators. n. And last year f.he Slat- 70,000 to the I wide educatio kwtan. About these schools, Taliban. The - ittevement since femal ? If only 20 per c ing up a re ild : Department gave Red Cross to help n refugee children in being educated /and the reach of emerge literate, an teracy in Afgha istan ,.re doing is cated women — teachers, scientists, computer operators,” says the program’s coordinator, Eric Van Der Lee. For years, a phalanx of nongovernmental organizations have been arguing for more such programs. Their demand: that the oppression of women be treated not as mere custom, best ignored by foreigners, but as a threat to national security on par with narcotics or terrorism. Those groups, from wealthy American philanthropies to African tribeswomen, were animated by the U.N. conference on women held in Beijing in 1.995. It became a kind of Woodstock for the international womens rights movement. “You looked out and saw all these thousands of different women— the different colors and textures and smells It uas exhilarating,” says former congresswoman Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, who was director of the U.S. delegation to Beijing. The Jimi Hendrix of the conference was Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose address captivated the conference the w ax the guitarist mesmerized the 19*>9 concert. Like it or not, the issue now is institutionalized in the bureaucracy, and it won t be easily dismantled Think bar k to the Carter administration, which brought human rights to the fore of American foreign policy. President Reagan vowed to correct his predecessor’s zealotry But the human right- bureaucracy' grew under the Dippers watr h. Count on the same for women's rights even after Hillary is gone. The baboons on the boulder may ignore the issue. Few people will. FPOMTHE NEWSWEEK APCHIVE g ( MATTHEW COOPEP AND KAPEM BRESLAU, 4/7/1997 HIUAPY ClUtTON • 29 SENATE STATE After serving as the first female senator(P^ from New York, Hillary set her sights on returning to the White House. As New Yorkers watch from the Rockefeller Plaza, Hillary Clinton makes her senate victory speech live on NBC, becoming the first female senator from New York. F n ers e(f •r promise you tonight that I will reach across part} hoes to bring progress t >-il New York. families, Hfllan, Clinto’ said as oi accepted the junior senatorship fr the state of New York on election day 2000 . “To . v, - \ ted as Republicans 4n d Democrats. T nii irnX'V we begin again as New VorfcerC Given w - iappen in the president!. Wee between Alt ' George W. Bush over t e fcUrwir r days. Cl . ■ on may have been a bit premature «n dec! g nan nuld be so quickh set aside, but optimism could be forgiven on her part uiai night In the history of the country . no tirst lady had ever so much as run for alderman — the tirst would be a senator from New York t via Chicago. Little Rock and Washington;, and it would be Hillary Clinton. For 24 years, she had been watching, taking notes, giving her two cents (.or two bits, as the situation dictated). Now it was her turn to sit in the drivers seat. Hillary 's 2000 election w as the strangest to take place in the Big Apple for some time. At tirst. it looked as though she would run against New iork Mayor Rudy Gi uliani but after Giuliani withdrew and left an unknown Long Island Republican. Rick Lazio, in his place, Clinton upped her game, changed her strategy to "Enough about me and Bill, let s talk about New York's problems.’' On election night, Lazio conceded before 11 pan- Hillary was onstage accepting and readv to govern before the nighth news. There wore those who said if Lazio had the benefit of a full vear to campaign, Hillary Clinton could never have won. She did. after all. have legions ofNew Yorkers ready to vote against her for her last name— or her gender— a base Lazio could have learned to exploit if onh he'd been given the time. In a year that saw a number of confused Floridians and improper hole punches catapult more conservative men than Rick Lazio to high office, anything may have been possible but for those New Yorkers who remember 2000’s electoral battle for the New York senate seat. Hillarys momentum was immediate, relentless and impressive. She broke away from her husband s legacy and tdrge< her own in one masterstroke. Before she had been in office a year, her political acumen and personal resolve were tested in the harshest possible way when her constituency was attacked on 9 'll- On the streets ol lower Manhattan with first responders, Sen. Clinton saw what she would later describe as "the closest thing to hell I’ve ever seen." but got right hack to work. *Tt was my job and the job of other officials to get our city and state and country what we needed." she said in a CNN interview on the 15th anniversary of the tragedy. By becoming senator from New York. Hillary was the first first lady to stand on her own as an elected official in her own right, and it was the first step toward her move-in at Pennsylvania Avenue. She proved she could lead in crisis, govern through tragedy, and he counted on in the darkest times HIILARV Ct tNTOfc • 35 THE NEW WAR ON HILLARY 1 This 2007 analysis of her relationship with the right could have been penned in 2016 . S I OME GRUDGES just don’t die. In the 1990s. David Bossie worked tirelessly as an investigator for Rep. Dan Burton’s government-reform committee. Burton was a top-echelon antagonist to Bill and Hillary Clint tv All his digging didn’t amount to much: Six v ears er the Clintons left the White House, Burton i a kt - :-heard-from member of the minority party, and 1 Hilary Clinton is the frontrunner to be the Democrats’ nominee for president in 2008. But Bossie is still working away. In recent months, he has returned to investigating the Clintons, this time for a tough documentary scheduled for release in theaters this fall. If Clinton is worried about the new' dirt-digging efforts, she isn’t showing it. When two much-anticipated biographies drop|>ed into bookstores last week, her campaign dismissed th- as “old news” and “cash for rehash.” For all th. through the years, none has ever stuck. Argu most-investigated woman in contemporary life moved from tabloid target in the White I j to winning a Senate seat in one of the nation’s m< t contentious states. It’s her resilience anti capacity |, survive and thrive against ail comers that partly r,„ ,, the haters’ fury. But there is some evidence to suggest that even obi news can still hurt. The Hillary detractors’ image „| the candidate-secretive, controlling and paranoi!! springs from the way she acted while under attack in the ’90s. In a Gallup poll released last week 5<> percent said their opinion of the former first lady Nva s unfavorable. (Forty-six percent said they had a favorable view.) The “negative" is unprecedented for » non-incumbent presidential candidate— neither Jcfc; Kerry nor Al Gore got such a high unfavorable rafr^ in the Gallup poll at any point in their unsuccessful presidential bids. Clinton’s camp notes that other recent polls have not shown unfavorablesashigh :s the Gallup number and says it is confident her favorables will increase as the campaign goes on. But real problem many Democratic voters haw with 1 inton is the sneaking suspicion that with so much a the country against her, she can never win a general election. Clinton's fate may well come down to her ability to deal with a vexing question: What is it sbv me that so many people don’t like? The answer has eluded both Clinton and her husband throughout their three decades in the arena. They began their national political lives '"th a miscalculation— tlic idea that America was fm a new kind of empowered, ambit ious politk^ spouse who would be “two for the price of one. >>' Bill’s phrase, ""lie-book villain for her detractors a m.-oH * * 1 ,nmis <. they claimed, who allegedly thee" h”' 1 111 'hand, communed psychically " ,l * 1 * ^ 1 ^d hi a White House Christmas*** , nctl wlt!l toys. The narrative ol dcp^'"' *1 inventions by conservatives wasoftcN i;; ' anti Hillary Industry hai ^ ' . ' 1 1 ' ’ 1 g down Hillary herself u > i'avr attacked, the higher she has if „ fcn* her M'f’,; l„i, P i, I! " k la» Molnt'. Iowa, hold* sign* proltttlng U.l. '*on, Hillary Modham Clinton »nd, oddly, aiil her unlitvornhle ratings in curly Semite |»oll« were high. Ily logging long hours in Cfreli of the stales 62 c< tun tie*, however, ( 'linion essentially managed to say, "Knough nhotil m o frequently (hut New Yorkers particularly independent women were willing to change the oh|< 1. She won with fift | >e rce n I ot the vole Hut Clinton's probl. * o lieyond perfecting hot personal touch In (Kill .In logs significantly with •"dependents, n gi on 1 >1 mistrusts establishment chruUdntes "You’ii > it tl, . • trying to creiiteasen.se "I ele< hthilily, and n .atives urn fi '2 (HTcent ," says e Democratic eon mi. who remained unnamed It tuny get ton ■i now that KcptlhlictinS are toning hack in toil. k,I| mid 1 1 illary show. In recent w, eks. McCain. I , m md Mill Kotimey have each filliped up their nllneks on * Union, mindful that nothing t iles up the lb-publican Im°c like t "linion hashing P.ven Hiehnrd l and, the president of tb* Soiilhern Mapllsl K lilies and Iteligious I ilaaiv ( onvenllou, whu has decried tin* Ini k of sm iallv conserve live candidates in tin- Meptihlicnn pi intat i field, acknowledge* lllfll the prospect of a I lillntv Clinton presidency would 'unite social 1 onset vrtlfvo? fiiound 11 eaiiflldale who might not he lotallv fteeeplfihle to them Allot !' J divisive vents, I lillni v may at Iasi he a millet though pm Imps Hot tin* Mltd she'd Imagined f'pOM fMF NFW1WFFH ARf IIIVF BY JONATHAN DARMAN, HARP HOSENBAl l 1 1 fanor r.urr, not 1 r raii f y, fvf » onamt, tun st»v * t tntoN v ETTING HILLARY E HILLARY In 200 3 , Newsweek took a look at the historic democratic primary anc h dw it was allowing Hillary to reinvent herself. ■ HE REV. HERMAN BING is a popular man. Pastor of the red-brick larpentersvine Baptist Church in North Augusta. South Carolina — a town of '.arbershops. strip malls and churches on die -.era ban • of the Savannah River— Bing, wbo w L e Late James Browns minister, has been taking s from the campaigns of Hillary Clinton 2 nd Bii a Obama, both of which are anxious for p®53- . 'rar-old preacher s endorsement before tbe ®ate s Democratic primary on January 26 . courtship between paigns and African - Aoutncaa ministers :s in ancient political rite. ^'it for Bing, who Is i. ■ - nend of Al Sharptons. is oo ordinary - LiKe many Democrats, he oas been wait; r ri me for a viable female Pyl in i il cand r a viable black one. Now he anc his party h f each, and in the ®®srmar;-. f Tow V- Hampshire, the two Pj*ps are fight; -r a zreat deal more than just ® n f a endorse-. •[ -,dly hate that they had ***** at the sar. the same election." say? Kn ?- * It just au v-. it should be a wonderful serv it; - . for rolks lifce me. I oev er inu-iinef y OU , Cj > e too much of a good thing- A continent away last Friday, in an empty classroom inside the sprawling Electrical Trai n . n g Institute of IBEW Local 11 in Commerce City. California, I read Bing's words to Clinton, who. while she listened, took a sip of water and noooed knowingly, a look of recognition in her eyes. She had heard this before. “I understand that.' she said. “What a good problem to have. Two leading candidates for president, a woman and an Abican- American. who are being viewed. I hope, on our merits, our qualifications, our records, our pians. our vision. I don't think it s easy for either of us. And I really commend Sen Ghana tor the wry graceful way that he ha< nav igated this cam .vaicn I wish it didn't have to be a choice. I thin's a lot of people who are tom between us teel that wav ' She pauses tor the briefest of boats But -t s a contest." she savs. ‘and the contrasts have to be drawn, and the questions have to be asked because obviously. I wouldn't be in this race and wvvrkmg as hard as l am unless l thought l am moqweh qualified at this moment in our htstorv to be the president we need starting in \nd 1 think it i? informed fo my deep experience over the last tv years, my firsthand knowledge of what gwes on inside a White House ' Torn is a tough word, but Clinton is light: It aptly captures how mam Americans*, and not ju«t Democrats al reads teel about SOOS. Some women are nursing guilt ove- supporting Obama mmamiy cunvon • *i some African-Americans worry they are doing the wrong thing by voting for Clinton. And these are early days: We are only just beginning to grapple with the questions of race and gender that the campaign will raise again and again through November. Sometimes the grand statement has the virtue, as Henry Kissinger is said to have * remarked, of being true. This is one of those times: Every election changes the country in fiome way, but the campaign now moving out of the largely white states of Iowa and New Hampshire to the rest of the country will soon mean that the politically engaged across America will | )( , presented with the likelihood that a woman o, ■ African-American will be the Democratic Homin' and P^aps the president. And, as Clinton *'*• ,l ’ s a “problem” to have. S "" H ' ^ hnton supporters, though, think th*$ ^ 11 ;1 disadvantage in this conversation; gendefd - :, y. is fair game, hut race is not. “How do I r* 5 * 11 * consider to he legitimate questions ahont , 1 ' orice an d record without appoarinS** , . 1 H 1 ace card?" asks Maria Kchaveste, f* F(>t “Iviser to Clinton’s Campaign. I, v ' ^ <><,d ! l ueR tlon, and one marie even li'irk’'’ Pm ' ( )bama flenlimerit in priinni.; a w, numinlty often vital in l* 1 ™* Awenda V y a,1nie * hohinson, the mayor pm ,t>n ' Chariest , " 1 ^ 1 ^ ar °hna, a rural town between "" :, "d Georgetdwn, says: “1 kind on 1 " 1 ’ that Mrs linton is reiving on the fact that blacks hav e embrace* ind continue to embrace Mr. Clinton. In the black community, Mr. Clinton has been ele\ ated to the status of honorary black brother. She can sort of ride on the coattails of that abiding affection. But there's abig. horrible split. Black folks love the Clintons, hut they also see in Mr. Obama hope, to borrow Jesse Jacksons phrase: keeping hope alive. Hes been able to do what no black, from Jesse Jackson to Al Sharpton or any other, has be i able to do. Hes been able not just *0 inspire hope but to incite it. I’ve had com ei sat ion. w ith other blacks ini '-ye hurch and community who ^ saying, ‘Sam, v ;ot to support him. In spite o People saying he's 1 * table, in the final analysis, they re saying, *\\ * t to make a statement. The tangled issues seem to arise daily, even hourly. I asked a colleague of mine, an African- American woman who lues in neither Iowa nor New 1 lampshire, to w rite me a note describing her private feelings about the eampaign “I w as a Hillary supporter going into the primaries," she said. “When Barack won in Iowa, I felt like a traitor to my race. What if this really is a moment where a black president is possible, and 1 was going to vote for the woman! 1 felt awful. I constructed tins whole complicated theory that 1 w as resistant to the election of Barack because, if he won, then 1 and every other black person in the world w as going to have to accept a new paradigm in American race relations— namely racism is not as pervasive and encompassing as we might like to believe and that the victim stance was going to be pretty hard to claim in the future. So then 1 became really excited and imagined how inspirational a black president would be, especially to the young black men who feel hopeless. Then came the ‘You’re likable enough, Hillary’ moment, and I swung sharply back to Hillary. I thought: ‘Great, another man who resents strong women and therefore resorts to personal insults to demean her.’" In sum: from Clinton to Obama then back to Clinton— in the space of about four days. Presidential candidates usually find themselves starring in at least two different versions of the same movie— one dark and tragic, the other sunlit and sweeping. The Ronald Reagan of 1980 was either a forgetful nuclear cowboy or a welcome figure of strength in an age of drift. The George W. Bush of 1999 was either a legacy hire w ho had blown the first four decades of his life and could not name the president of Pakistan, or he was likable and engaging and seemed warmer and looser t han Al Gore. This year Barack Obama is either a smooth but insubstantial media-created savior, or he is the embodiment of hope and change whose election would transform America, redeeming us from our racial sins. And Hillary Clinton is either the boomer Daisy Buchanan who has ruthlessly plotted her wav to power so that she can bring about a liberal utopia, or she is the hardworking, experienced HILLARV CLINTON ‘ 43 *t easy— Hillary had to pull a wagon ot balls, hats a jump ropes those few miles — but at 13, about the ti Obama was born, she was learning that life requi resilience. When she was 4, she was at raid of pi; g with a neighbor, Suzy O’Callaghan, who, Hilla ecalled, "was always pushing me around. Rum g inside one day, afraid, Hillary found an ousy pathetic Dorothy Rodham aw'aiting. Oo back out t: re," Hillarys mother told her, "and il Su/.y hits you, you have my permission to hit her back. \ < >u hav e to stand up for yourself. There’s no room in this house for cowards." Hillary absorbed the lesson, squared her shoulders and sallied forth. Mrs. Rodham’s hawkish counsel worked. "I can play with the boys now!” Hillary^ •tonoumeil on h< i return. “And Suzy will he ms b >• ud. An early lesson tl it has proved useful: I lit I' 1 " k "In n you get hit, and tin i ti*y to win over your foes. She has ne\ i lacked for confidence. At 13, she " st 1 a Pay phone a j >ol during lunch hour to call Mast > Richard Dak in e to register her uncus* about sports of pro K.-nncdy voter fraud, which she and a friend then im stigated on the South Mde ol 1 1" *>» unhappy Republicans one Saturday morning ttb ydid not tell their parents where they weir g* "nr. \\ hat was the source ol the confidence l think c came from both of my p.uvut. sin ..is bln ,uJd ,\l lather was raised with hruthci In wa a toolkit pm,, and a boxer, he was a chief pells otiicci in tin N.tvs lu- was a man ol Ins linn . Hedulni n ails kuov vsli.i to do wit h a daughter, so hr just pretts much .u< n-t throw the tiiolhull, let's learn how lo sw iteh-hr I s\ his wav ot relating to in* , and it w.i. all about spori and doing well in school, and it wa. real Is . slroin. to me to earn his support and his approval lint il also built my eonlidene* at tin same linn tioing out and playing football or baseball with tm boys, when 1 w as u tomboy, was a great win n lean about winning and losing, mid most girl (lain have that experience.... [A lot of research about postwar women show s that] most young women w ho became successful in the outer world dm hav* ft father w ho either ignored th* harriers or explicit h said they are not there for sou Him mother tough self-reliance: "Ms mother, who had had m make her own way in life, believed that she would do every thing she could to give us n good sin in lit* anil protect us and prepare us, hut at the end n tin das. life was unpredictable, von never knew svlra was going to happen, you had tn he propu-vd to take care of yourself, yon had to hi willing to sum. up for yourself. So 1 had not just on* hoi rw< realls pow erful messages each coming out ot ms ptovist vers different experiences. but combining to gm „**• that confidence, to give me th*' feeling thin should do svlial I thought svas right for ms lit* and make the decisions that svoold be best for me ritOM Tilt M'WSWFFk ARCHIVf BY ION MFACHAM.All ISON SAMUFIS K ARPN BRFSl AO. ARIAN ( AMPOFLORES, RAINA KPl LEV, CHRIS DIXON MARTHA BRANt, RICHARD WOl FFF, FI FANOR CUF1 V?l/20« Mil LARY Cl INTON <1S ,i*vc prf Sir n jjm j» I I WAb ALMOST like one of those moments i a buddy-cop movie when the two partners wh dislike each other at the beginning finally bon while taking on the bad guys. In mid-Decemb Barack Obama and Hillary CUntoi , were in Copenhagen, where the leaders of more th : , 0 countries had gathered to negotiate a new agreem to combat global w arming, and the summit w as 01 the verge of collapse. Clinton later described it as t most disorganized meeting she’d seen since her eh grade student council. It “was in«t . * — , n u,e president, found themselves up * most of the rest of the world. At the last minute sought a one-on-one meeting with the Chines to rescue some kind of agreement, only ^ Premter Wen babao a„ d his team to meet (after two years of prior Droeraof "No, were going in n „w; 0 ba„, a dec| . Clinton. -Absolutely: she said. 'Ut's go ' The fonner politieal rivals suddeidv m , uito a diplomatic version of Starsky , President to come,” Clinton said. “Because 1 nothmg Was going to happen unless we gave ? < ^dmg down the hallway, with the Chine?? P r< othcer sputtering protests behind them. Am** , ,e ^ kn * >S( ^ 1,n dards for measuring, reporting E N A T E AND 5 TA-TjE On December 18, 2009, President Barack Obama speaks during a multilateral meeting with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, Brazilian President Lula da Silva, Indian Prime Minister Prime Manmohan Singh and South African President Jacob Zuma during the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. ring progress on carbon reduction. Smiling an ■ng hands, Oban , and Clinton worked Ether, as the)' ha/I each done so many times ^tending politi i . Then the president sat '■n and started r iting, with Clinton si ‘ n & *hon papers to i n : needed. When the 1 _ % caved, both Oi,.m and Clinton knew that 501 just becau had crashed the meeting ^ days before, t! retary of state had > “°pw agen by - v j rprise to deliver a see eete help win over developing countries. In essence, it was a global bribe: $100 billion a year from rich nations by 2020 to help poorer countries cope with climate controls It was political hardball. Hillary style, and it had helped to isolate Beijing. Now Obama was closing the deal Clinton had setup- .. . . T he two came away from Copenhagen with a partial triumph and a new sense of maturity-both about their relationship and their sense of how to lead. Clinton later called it one of “the most extraordinary HILLARY CLINTON • 40 48 hours she's spent in public life" said her ^ warming negotiator, Todd Stem " m 1 1. . • , something for a woman who’s lived throug i P° tumult for IS years, including several presidents and senatorial campaigns. Clinton told Newsxt'ee that it was important for America to be seen taking the lead in tackling seemingly impossible problems, particularly in an era with rising new powers at the table, if only to show what the country stands for. "We can’t just walk out of the arena and leave these important decisions to somebody else because it’s messy, it’s difficult, it requires compromise. That is what you have to do on the world stage today,” she said. “We remain the strongest country in the world, but the way we exercise that leadership has changed dramatically.” Copenhagen also provided further evidence that the 'harp differences between Obama and Clinton over m polio, on the campaign trail were, as many on ' acknowledge, largely political theater. : views of American power had never been at fa it “We’re both, at bottom, problem solvers pi a. deal, realistic people,’ Clinton says now. “As !ano Cuomo said, 'You campaign in poetry and you govern in prose.’” Critics dismissed the climate targets as vague and voluntary, and the administration faces a separate onslaught from global-warming skeptics. But since the summit, 120 nations have signed on and 75 have submitted carbon-reduction plans, Stern says It took some time after the election for Obama ’ and Clinton to find their balance together. They had fought one of the fiercest wars in American onl t ^ history, and the wounds were still raw in the e v months of the new administration. Clint,,, V J • a chill from the advisers around Obama S ^ loyalists like Davsd Axe, ted, Jam*. Though Clinton kept her head H, a ,-n< ' she mastered her brief as secretaty „f , ^ " h,fe the way she took on every new task „ 7 Was and tirelessly— she was 3^^ T? 10 ® *% Obamas plea to join hb administratk, h if*" 4 enticing: He had his hands full wi , h the f " economy, the new president said and I „ , g someone of her stature to handle tWeiL ^ Implication was that she would have ant voice when it came to dealing with the world, friends and admirers were baffled at her seen, uTw of influence. She "was not in the inner circle. 'jW clear," says one aide who, like several others quoted* in this story, did not want to be named discussing i internal politics. 1 ler bluntness abroad occasionally caused consternation in the West Wing, and Clinton, in turn, “complained about a lack of dissenting vok« in the administration,” says an old friend who km*, her from her first-ladv days. “In the beginningshe would say, They want this, they want that,’ "meaning tin- White House. "It took a while for her to start saying ‘we.’” Clinton and Obama had already begun bonding on previous trips abroad, but in Copenhagen the “they” truly became “we,” Clinton aides say. Some of Obama’s most loyal aides have nothing bat good things to say about their former political foe. The bottom line is the president has always had aveir deep respect for Secretary Clinton’s capabilities and contributions to the country,” says Denis McDo who is formally National Security Council chief of stall but plays a powerful role behind the scenes as a longtime Obama confidant. Obama was always oneef lid biggest fans, even in the immediate aftermath d the primaries, McDonough says, believing “that she , made him that much better a candidate" and the same for his presidency. National-security Cen. James Jones credits Clinton with being 'one a of the articulators of the overall strategy that ' u> | adopted" on I ran mid China. Clinton is now influencing policy more than - ^ over has, especially in close partnership with ecretary Robert Gates. Subtly yet unmistakably mew hat greater hawkishness is beginning t0 ' ^ I m policy. While Obama’s no slouch at she" 11 '.' 1 1 a,M 1 1 v himself, he’s depended on Clinton (lift! 1 ' 111 " ' * ran ( w hich is becoming a "mil't ,u ‘> gj . ° l slll iv she recently declared, setting tin Isi-Jro t,al, ° ns ncvv tou Sb tone), and to harang hi s j ' . ' u,u ^mister Benjamin Netanyahu o' freeze '" u ' c ‘o fu -S. demands for a settlement bacW a SO crit 'eized the Russians in the '' ' power I). 0 ' 0 ' Moscow’s work on an Iranian nu 1 ^ Kama’s U CHnt ? n po,itely P Iays do " n ’’Ing * cop. 1 don’t think there’s atptl 0rnial as that," she says. “With every tough message Lhat 1 deliver, it is embedded in a much broader '"'text. It’s not, ‘You're will) us or against us.’ II is. have a lot ofbu inesstodo.’ ” president h i df continues to set grand lri mas I lenry Kissinger?' the answer, Y°wrse, is that Barack ( )bama." But Clinton Iw.s ( ( d a new sobi i i \ to the administrations app'oie ^ eWorld. “He i ; mint about the B-o'clock in d" 0l,li ng ihonee .ill wasn’t entirely wrong," says one ,* l(>r ^ ° olfit id, referring to Clintons infamous ■ Pfti) i slap at Obanin's inexperience. I lliink h obviously I ere before In ways dial the preiident It’s about haul work w imieluis a l.aol. . | iM< ..,i 1P llond orallPilllun she's ught mhlthnlo I nlaepq Willi almost nniwlrtl* tirtvel i\|». tll\ win. e * tW . dulstet - ' l,m f I IP! InlPi'ti.tl polllk Engine. I";'",, , 1 1 ! lit KKi hrtSRlHMl; ()() m ,, Hl(w llh whom dtp nltnupiab vi " J „ mil tft tin Isl^h tlettf “ ) Ml\\*mue huge sw»« v «HI. agues on MltlAHV MINION SI - On December 2, 2009, Secrgp ^ of State Hillary Clinton greets Secretary of Defense Robert Gates as they and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen (R) arrive to testify at a Senate Armed Services Committee. Opposite: Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talk in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., on May 13,2010. important Senate committees, giving State new budget power. It’s been at least partly thanks to Clintons tight bond with Gates that the administration has followed the Obama surge in Afghanistan with a series of high-level visits to Pakistan. She induced her old colleague John Kerry- despite some bad blood over his endorsement of Obama in 2008— to placate the dyspeptic Afghan leader, Hamid Karzai. “John Kerry and I spent a lot of time explaining to President Karzai about why elections oftentimes aren’t fair. We can draw on our own personal experience,” she says. “It wasn’t just ‘We’re going to give you lecture lot on how democracy works.’ We could say, ‘Look, we’ve been on the other side.’ I mean, John could talk about Ohio and I could talk about the 18 million votes [her total ’ the primaries] and all that w-ent with it. And it i~.ii makes a difference." c ' Clinton also drove administration policy on Haif She heard about the horrific quake on the first l e ' ' of a trip to Asia. At dinner with aides in Hawaii 8 she became emotional as she talked about people she knew who had died in the disaster. The next O* IU1 II 11ILU a. Kurt Campbell, her assistant secretary for Asia I was a new person. She spent the nevt four hoti^ the [Pacific Command headquarters] working ( h f Phones, pulling strings, in a way I’ve never seen blie later persuaded the president to mount a mai ,! military-relief operation. Clintons regular town-hall meetings abroad^ * s e likes to call them now, “town-temevvs." invoke cal citizens and media — have eased at least p C an h -Americanism in Islamic countries. She Proudly to a new BBC World poll showing imp^ 1 . standing globally thanks in part to "the e 1 uann and my popularity, and with how bard failin S ^ es a ^ so succeeded, in part. b> vvhilp 8 ' 1M,nta ' n ' n K a low profile tor the first v** 1 • Rich'ii I n specia ^ em 'ovs like George M»tch e worse i t | ° hrooke to make headlines, for l**tto <* foot in h ^ ^ knton also did manage to p< rt '<«, ,ir uthafewtim - «'■»■"">• «nior offl cia h | a L? e . Sbeginnin * to CT ™’S e - f V* theobam , the bl 8»est issue still unrest ’ a Ministration is, can there Ire *>' **NAT£ AND tTfkJi one star?" I much she's fit's a mysti and totally w,, rkcd ioi H.“She n,, ver lac,-, i now there are questions about how i mg her personal stamp on things, in me why she hasn’t taken a big issue nod it,” says one devoted aide who has on and off since Clinton was first vs has before. This is a woman who uestions about whether she has too little "dlni'iK ncvt>r | )( , cn without influence before. ' l,nl ' says she no longer has the “luxury” of " iisinj; ,, n one issue; her agenda is too “enormous. 1 'hmirers credit her for developing a profound ] ' * 1 "inplex world view dating from Beijing in v ith n s ^ e roc ked a women’s conference hall l 1 1 declaration that women’s rights were i sa, arid on through the ► eloped as a senator, like raq War. In her biggest Internet freedom in i Churchillian warning l inn curtain’’ descending . i ml Iran. She still believe s .is first lady, that building eonomic development — »*hi aui rights and vi( ,f * "'wed views sh' *<> authorize ^espeeeh yet ' puaiy, Clinton is Oil ( l^si * mnt ries like )l*i 1 1 ; O'Uite <*) as si i tal »' d empowering „,d , , nllKi , s , k , y * Ww«VillH«HilWy •noment into ll.e hawkish Hillary. linlons and Obama’s various poheieg do no* Wl add up to anything like a doctrine on America t place m the world. Much of die first year wasabou' lehuilding the brand, rebuilding political capital says one official. And blaming George W. Bush fm Americas dire situation, of course. Now hov /ever, fewer world leaders care about the mistakes mack b\ the previous administration. Leslie Gelb, die former president of the Council on Foreign Relations say he doesn’t think Clinton is of the caliber of Jame< Baker, the George I f.W. Bush secretary of state who was perhaps the last real superstar in the job. “She's very smart,” he says. “She understands all these issues. You can have a good discussion with her on almost any [subject]. But she doesn't pretend to be nor is she, a strategist. When she goes to the Nationa Security Council, she doesn't bring that to the table ” (Gen. Jones, for the record, disagrees, saying, “Those of us who have worked with her are grateful for her strategic vision”) Asked about such criticisms, Clinton reveals a glimmer of the testy feelings she is usually so successful at concealing. “I think when you inherit the range of problems we have, from one end of the world to the other-thc threats that we faced, the two wars that we inherited-I think tryingto have a very clear approach to actually dealing with those problems Tand promoting] American leadership at this time in our history is about as big an idea as you can get, she says. How long she’ll stay focused on this ,ob « .u., r aU estion. Befoie Obama stunned her with Tis offer Clinton had wanted to go back to the Senate nd write a book about the campaign she’d lost . Shes and wnt that sh e may not last out ,l,( ‘ " S i- We’ll see” Ftorthe moment. stmngv as it af1 the best of the country by saying. With mu toward none and charity toward all.’ ...1 was told that we can l pay those Americans back forthfiijjj colossal acts of service, but we have an obligati# to Pay it forward to others through our service aiul Sac, ’ifiee. 1 support Hillary Clinton because j t hese are her values, and she has been paring forward her entire life.” —SEN. CORY BOOK?* ebin A . NT A PRRSl »ENT who will teach o«r Dr(> ? * i* 11 , VtM ’y°ne in this countr> mattei foiin i nt " h ul >’ believes in the vision tha are ill P " 1 ■ S INCE SHE FORMALLY announced her candidacy. Hillary Clinton has missed fn, chances to mention her gender “r be the youngest candidate in this racj ^h' 68-year-old said, to cheers and laui-ht'. the New York City event “But I will be the you ^ ^ woman president in the history of the United kF*' As a presidential candidate, Clinton is n| , • tatPS " gender card like no one ever before IW < >lngthe Kes,des Promisi ( state has built her campaign on tin , u st( 1( s a w °ntan. She cites her late mother > l’ a ,as ,1M abandoned teen who worked as :1 M ’'"‘ sm> i° ' ° VV 11 status as a grandmother in ncarh < ' i )av . ( < a,1fl shc regularly hits feminist issue* hefor ( 'V >n, ° ns reproductive rights. In )atc^ r bug..! ' ( ;OP debate - her campaign released *"' r " " ^' n g womens economic cone*'' 11S H 'Uary Clinton supporters cheer as delegates cast their votes during roll call on the second day of the Democratic Natteal Convention. Inset: f Pro-Hillary buttons. president H\VV liLS ' s ( >n gender is in stark contrast 1 bid, when Barack Obama dc Back t| l " * )o,nocra tic presidential nominatio ip | u> |. ' Risers steered her away from pla> Bj %\\^ n ^ er ' 1 * lu y crafted an image of"' man 1 j || ‘though her eyes welling up during j Primary as she discussed the ‘ Uni *' cs was widclv credited with givi This time, she doesn’t have to compete against Obama, another transformative candidate, although one could argue that by making socialism less of an epithet in the U.S., Sen. Bemie Sanders could also claim he’s a history-making candidate. Clinton is currently surging with core support from women and is savvy to emphasize womens issues and her Wellesley-to-the-White-House tale. She has a huge lead among women, and if she’s sworn m on January 20, 2017, it "ill be owing to their votes. But there are trouble spots. She’s always been a polarizing figure, a proverbial lightning rod for male and female hopes and fears about women's role in Amen. au X Now. offering women the chan- to see hiS,< " T Tho loatbe herld , mod* middle where 7 nl rtituc e can be summed up as: ehh. maybe, the attitude ^ heading into the Female was stron g but unsteady. Her Democratic pi , Democratic women midsummer which fell nationally was *«***££ recovered anti be to 42 percent in • '1 nt . according to \U ™ k ‘f C X^'" ,WP0 " S ' News-Wr. i,„ women W'" ^rlmenwbomostnsemhle llte irony is that tin , __a mnmwcd- are I , n d moneyed are less linton white, o den n • „ wen of color nduntnarned ^election. rill be criheal 1 At Tampa's University of South Florida, a Hillary Clinton supporter brandishes a sign V with the unofficial 1 slogan of the campaign, “I’m with her.” Florida has been a contested battleground state in recent electons, most famously in 2000. Pollsters and strategists have a number of theories about why younger women are more enthusiastic about Clinton than her graying peers. One reason has to do with memory. Millennial “have known her as senator and secretary of state and president, V candidate; says Celinda Lake, a Democratic pollster who specializes in women voters. “They have onl known her when she comes into her own " Baby boomer women, born between 1945 and me are more volatile in their estimation of Clinton 1 finds. They remember too much of her * as her husbands infidelity and the scandals J Clinton White House. For women her age an d . younger, the unease is a female subset of (T ,ght Fatigue. She is a living reminder of the h„n,'I '• fact that not long ago a working woman in , 1 louse— wearing pants, no less— was -considered • evolutionary. “There is more ambivalence aboa 1 bo marriage, which millennial don’t even ; ^ I boomers] are critical on everything from ^ ! ha\ e stayed with him?' to what she did with h> I as secretary of state],” says lake, adding that v ° . are more nitpieky” about candidates in then 1 <*> Younger women, on the other hand, arc l\ to see Clinton as transformational- * a u " av ( )bama was hailed as the apostle o- ^ a,ul 1 llari ge in 2008, when he attracted tig* . female support. Sanders also dra" > m Clin1,)n ’ s potential to be the first fem^ • ( s, dont carves into his appeal. ‘ Sande' s I ) n ^ X ' Wonie n, is still an older white man * ni(, cratie pollster Anna Greenberg. H The I ,eH P le ™*d to win election, becoming younger and more diCe « V0UDg er women may be more comfortable than /r women with Clinton because they came of age equal era. Justin Barasky, spokesman for ^ nties USA. the largest super PAC supporting ^n. notes that younger women “have grown up in j society where ESPN runs womens World Cup soccer \.f everybody watches. I don't think they have the m skepticism about her, if it exists, as people who aperienced their teen years in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s.” Priorities USA recently ran Spanish-language ads aned at engaging women in Nevada and Colorado. Ottotthem. "M Hija (My Daughter),” describes a wcng mother's i < ipes for her girl. Young fema. pport is crucial for Clinton because miller, outnumber boomer women dien it omes 016 voting eligibility, says Marcy Stech. kesv. tn for Emily’s List, a pro-choice, fcroocr ic FA iat has ponied up $20 million for a Madar Presid t project to help Clinton get elected. This - :e i n lger voters is a huge shift for . . s says. The people we need to win ' ir ‘ ning younger and more diverse.” s t r- supporters are also more likely to ^j nr bed d she does especially well with those her never married or divorced. They tojnT 0 he moved by Clinton’s progressive ln pan 1 ^ enera ^ an< ^ her SUPP 01 ^ ft> r equal pay ^ r ^ ^ e - v are a critical demographic for any o, Jtni ‘ cause in 2016 they will for the first time Yok D 1 ma nied women— a majority of whom ^'Publican. tra^ ICr Omero is part of a bipartisan '*T)f. n ^ sl-Mart moms,” defined as l a ^' a ng at home under age 18 h) earjy ^ at Wal-Mart in the past month. ^ rT1 ^cr, the researchers met with two moms— Democrats in Iowa ^ T,i ' x raK r 1CanS * n ^ eVi Hampshire. The Iowa ‘‘•^men, four of whom were Sanders supporters, were nut -engaged" bv Cto, m observer said, and thei didn't fed esDe. i.11 of her just because is a Inke says Clintons greatest general dectiuu C aJlenge will be winning over older, married, independent women. In talking about her mother and her role as a grandmother, Clinton can make inroads with this group because she sends not just a gendered message but a value -oriented conversation” about work, struggle and perseverance. Clinton’s staunchest supporters are African- American women. They do not think first of scanaa and infidelity when the}' hear the name Clinton, says Lake. They remember better days under the Clintons. The\ thought the economy was better then, and the? like strong, independent women.” Black women are also as a group more Democratic than white women. Clinton draws the support of onh 26 percent of white men, per a Wall Street Journals BC poll. Some of Clintons dose friends and advisers say the gender strategy, whether successful or not is more genuine than the 2008 strategy that tried tc present her as resolute, tough and disciplined without emphasizing her interest in the welfare ofwomen ant children. “Hillary is fond of saying she is the icast- known famous person in .America.” savs ^r«thr»e political strategist Paul Begala. a veteran ofc,inton campaigns going back to 1592. Clintons pass * * “ tom* ^ **** authentic and a lure Women in Polity. _ Wa ] sh says of the 200s from the reality of » h J* ^ Blkiw about that campaign- Insom _ • H young directly [the C m m V* j* for a woman to he women get how histono elected president FROM the At a rally at Temple Unlversltyin Philadelphia thfilay after accepting the Democratic Party’s nomination for president, Hillary Clinton is joined onstage by her husband flfl SHARING THE WHITE HOUSE He might want to be called “First Dude,” but what are Hillary’s serious plans for Bill’s return to the White House? h i 1 1 .1 ,AUY Cl .INTON has already made history as the first woman to be elected president of the United States. It’s a historic challenge, and one which will m force her to instantly confront another vexing dilemma: What does her husband do for the next foi i years? Will he be a White 1 lausfrau or a POTl S without portfolio? The enormous ques- tion ol What to do about Bill?” has been hanging over Hillary’s campaign for the White I louse since it started. No one knows the answer. The only sure thing is that Bill will be the most powerful first spouse n American history. for his part. I >onald Trump had a general answer to this qu« ition during the campaign: I le doesn t think husbands should let their wives work. But Bill and Hillary have never been traditional, and they have never listened to Trump. Everybody will be making it up as they go along in || 1( - first gender-flipped White Mouse. •he conundrum of "What to do about Bill?” is so controversial and complicated that it needs its °' vn flowchart and PowerPoint presentation— and probably, somewhere in the basement of the Brooklyn H(^ of Hillary for President, a team of consultants was hard at work for months on it. No one in Washington even seems to know what to call him, other than “Bill." What will the official announcers at events like slate' dinners and the State' of the Union intone when the Clintons walk into the- room? 1 -ie lie's and gentlemen: Madam anel Mi President of the United States? Pivsidenl Clinton and former President Clinton. Or how 'bout just Mr and Mrs. President Clinton. Bill has jokingly suggested he he called Adam, as in the first man, inspiring tweeters te> suggest that the moniker would give him the right to “go tbilh and multiply,” so maybe not. “Once you've servoel as president, that is your title for life,” White I louse historian William Seale told Newmoeek during the campaign. I would think in business anti exit in public he would he Mr President as he’s certainly earned it. And in connection with hei they would he President Clinton and Mr < linton Spending their golden years together in tlw White I louse looks like a happily-ever-after, picture book ending to a long and stormy tale for Mill and I lillai \ Mill did famously say that when he married her lie disappointed his mother, who had hoped for a beaul.r queen, but that he couldn’t imagine growing old with anyone else without getting bored He’s talked about his “endless conversation" with Hillary, and mm that she’s been elected they’ll he having it from rocking chairs at the top of the world. FROM THE NEWSWEEK ARCHIVE. BY NINA BURLEIGH. 6/16/16 HILLAftV CtlNtblN 63 W h ilia r ycllnton Fighting for Hillary Clinton at the Hillary for New York Primary Night Party on April 19, 2016. The former senator from the state of New York handily won the ^ primary by defeating Senator Bernie Sanders (l-Vt.). ewsweek premier SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSWt t K \ OR /!»% 01 1 Newsweek 5Mble Nt»WfcW«tok W*ul«u.\*ui ♦'hull.* * 5 ” i ' / v>v’v l hti IC'ftlP hr 1 PRINT + ONLINE SUBSCRIPTION + ARPS F OR F‘fW„OI WEEKLY HOME DELIVERY of Newsweek in Print FULL DIGITAL ACCESS to each week’s issue via Newsweek apps for iPad, Kindle Fire and Android Full access to NEWSWEEK.COM Subscriber-Only Content SUBSCRIBE AT IEEK.COM/PREMIER W H AT THE PRIMARIES TAUGHT US her self fo-r a quarte^of 6 **" ,ntroducin g the Dems 5 nr>m' CentUr ^ w hen she became n ®mmee in June 2016. On July 12, 2016, *•"- Berme Sanders of Vermont endorsed Hillary Clinton after ♦ou»»*t primary. The independent senator polled better against Trump than the former secretary of state during the primary season. the wife of a presidential eandidate before mining on to become a senator, a presidential candidate, the secretary of state and, finally, the first WOitUUi president. Here’s what the 2016 primary taught us about our new president. HER ALLIES ARE LOYAL Clinton’s strength among black and l^aimo voters won her this nomination. They stood by her with large majorities, enough to guarantee her victory in big, diverse, high-population states like California. Honda and Texas. Sanders generally won smaller states and caucuses, albeit w ith some exceptions like Michigan. A younger generation of voters had less interest in Clinton and her centrism. But her win in D.C. was all but guaranteed because the district has a large percentage of Hack and older, white* Democratic enters. Clinton lost there in 2008 because Barack Obama did so well with African-Americans. 71ns time she took D.C. easily. ► * < H ILLARY CLINTON ended her campaign for the Democratic nomination with an expected win in the District of Columbia primary on 4 June 14. 7'he capital was the capstone of a campaign that left her with 28 states, including *7 of the largest 20. not to mention 15.7 million votes— compared to 12 million for Bernie Sanders, i voting that began in Iowa in February ; more than a quest for the Democratic n °mination. It was the latest in a long line of [ rtooductions Clinton has made to the Americar , j*°pie during the last 25 years. Since 1991 * 11 s ; Uk{ 'H on different personas. We first knew ie SHE CAN BE FLEXIBLE Clinton once praised the Trans Pacific Partnership, the mammoth international trade deal that the Obama administration still hopes to pass, but came out against it as a candidate. She had no problem shifting leftward. She also improved her relationship with Obama supporters and staff just as she did with the president himself. Any number of Obama alums came around to help her this time, and if they had any hard feelings, they didn’t show them. SHE STILL AROUSES STRONG FEELINGS You don’t have to spend a lot of time online to see the kind of passion Clinton inspires. Ihe Bemie bros hate her. The right still hates her. And no shortage of supporters sec her as The One. After the primary season, we got to see what Clinton w as like in the general election. In 2008, she had to show restraint because Obama w as so well liked. Same with Sanders. She knew she’d need his people in llie end. Even in her first Senate race, in 2000, slie w as still the first lady and couldn’t act like a total brawlei N< >w Clintons free to fight how she pleases. FROM THE NEWSWEEK ARCHIVE, BY MATTHEW COOPER, 6/14/16 Mill ARY ClINTOM ; T T'T rT t? ERING 1 miLE ROCK came to Arkansas L Cllnto, i rerriemh the gove rn o ^ id ^'TstTnH u h ° W Hi " ary • s mansion change! ***" " 0n September 20 iqq, „ him. H,sf,rst term a decade earlier had made him the states youngest governor MADAM PRESIDENT D ECADES I ATER, it’s hard to remember how battered Bill Clinton was after the 1992 primaries. He had secured the nomination, but his candidacy was marred by his efforts to avoid serving in Vietnam and allegations, later confirmed, of extramarital affairs. It looked like he was heading for a joyless convention in New York. But events conspired to make it work. Now, two decades later, we have another convention, another battered Clinton candidacy. Only this time it’s Hillary Clinton, the former senator an secretary of state, who is stuck in a close race with Donald Trump. The former president began by tossing out aw-shucks anecdotes about meeting Hillary Rodham at Yale hiw School. They’re well known to Clinton watchers but still new to millennials, especially young progressives who think the first couple are nothing more than an eye-rolling tangle of pathologies, humiliating af fairs and Wall Street honoraria. Every marriage is a mystery, even to those in the middle of it But by recalling the first time they locked eyes at Yale and his visit to her Bears- and Cubs-crazed family in the suburbs of Chicago, he made it a bit less opaque. He chronicled their nearly 50-year conversation, as Sidney Blumenthal dubbed it about how to achieve liberal goals in a conservative country. “She took a huge chance,” he said of Hillary Clinton accepting a job teaching law in Arkansas. “It was more rural, more culturally conservative than any place she had ever been.” Throughout the night, Bill Clinton accomplished three main things: He reminded the audience that Hillary Clinton was a young idealist. He made some sense of their marriage, perhaps the most analyzed in the world. And he rehabilitated himself, explaining his progressive history to a crowd that only knows him from the Defense of Marriage Act and the deregulation of derivatives. “I was defeated in the Reagan landslide,” he recalled of his 1980 bid for a second term as Arkansas’s governor. At 34, he’d gone from being the nation’s youngest governor to the nation’s youngest ex-governor. It would have been easier for them to go another route. An aspiring Arkansas politician would have been better off with a Little Rock beauty queen, not a smart, young lawyer from Illinois. She'd have been better off somewhere else too. Someplace more liberal, more hip. But they found each other, stayed together, and as weird as their marriage is, it does make some sense. Each thinks the other is the smartest person in the world. 'Ibe respect is real. “She’s the best dam change-maker I’ve met in my entire life." Bill Clinton said. FROM THE NEWSWEEK ARCHIVE, BY MATTHEW COOPER, 7/27/2016 HILLARY CLINTON *69 president gave herfirlt do' t Candidate for “ WaS 3 night for the* hi s °tory n book s SPee(h MADAM PltfSIDfNT % Making her speech at the Democratic Convention in Philadelphia, Hillary Clinton managed to discredit her opponent’s campaign without resorting to the kind of direct personal attacks Trump’s campaign delighted in making their hallmark. i ARY CLINTON made history at the '.st night of the DNC in Philadelphia by "■coming the first woman to accept her party’s nomination for President of the Cj |( j United States. Introduced by her daughter h,. r( ^ fii,1 ary delivered one of the finest speeches of * ait j ose were arUudly IX»nd.l Tmmp's wolds [at the RNC] in Cleveland. An, I they should set off alarm bells tor all of ns.... isn't [Trump] forgetting? TVoops on the (tun, hues. Police officers and firefighters who run tow «d linger Doctors and nurses who care for us. Teach™ r, change lives. Entrepreneurs who see invsstlnht.es il evei-y problem. Mothers who lost children to I and are building a movement to keep ' "l r kids safe. He's forgetting even last one ol us. ° it don't say: "I alone can (is if We say: A,W u 1 , it togethe ." Remember: Our Founders tghttot' 011 and wrote a Constitution so HILLARY CUNTON 1 Democratic Conve n tion, which chose « feraate ■ o mm cc for the f i r $t time in its history. Though 'ton was the first major party candidate to be a woman, victoria Woodhull ran an independent campaign in 1872 , though rite could not even vote under the rules of the day. America would never be a nation where one pers had all the power. Two hundred and forty years lj we still put our faith in each other. America needs every one of us to lend our ener, our talents, our ambition to making „ ur nation be and stronger. 1 believe that with all my heart Th why Stronger Together" is not jus. a lesson from , history. Its not jus. a slogan for our campa.g,, je guiding principle for the country we’ve JLc u and the future were going to build. A courUrC T the economy works for everyone, not just th ^ top. Where you can get a good job and send T to a good school, no matter what zip code ' Y ® Ur 1 A country where all our children can dream" 7 dreams are within reach. Where families d ' i (immunities are safe, and yes — love trumps hate. I hat s the country were fighting for. That’s the uere working toward. And so it is with humility, determination and ' * )Un dless confidence in America’s promise, that 1 ^ 1111 n,) niination for President of the United States. 1 1 ’'hght, we ve reached a milestone in our nati° n '■"( li toward a more perfect union: the first tintf j. n,a -’ <)l P ar ty has nominated a woman for 1 , n< ”g here as my mother’s daughter and m> l - s m °ther, I’m so happy this day has co* 11 C ‘PP> lor grandmothers and little girls and e'Ch ^ 1 Ia PPy for boys and men, too ■ 7 U ' n any barrier falls in America, for anyone " ,ly ,<>r everyone. When there are no ceiling V II) 44 lomght, weVerearluwi •. ■ nations march toward .. Y. ,. . t u t . ru a n ^)re perfect uni the hi st turn tiiat a inaiot* h*n*fir • . i 1,11 ,,u y ui part) has nominated a woman for president. ?? 0111 ion: Lv* ,f„- limii »> let's keep going, until every one of L ioi millioi- women and girls across America has die deserves, Because even more n . of gz/^l -paying clean energy >)♦>•' 1 ’i./j) we have miHk/ns of hardworking ..lOlbut,.,- »/, o'.r eCOnO»T»> ' , y ' -ir,'l ..-ih'irr.ar.c to kick them out. - reform will grow our '"ri «/ir: keep families tog^rther— and it s the - do, WTut/wer party yo 1 - i /; ’ ‘ ' '» no party at all, if you *bare t hw tf ’ jt * if campaign. “■ diat c/>rnpanM;s should -har ( pro it- ff„ '* i,f "'"km, not pad txecutm bomi*«*. f"'” •' w v be minimum wage sh/zuld k' a h v,rt ^ , ^ ,( oofle vro/kingfull tim^lfhooUi b*'' f " in poverty, job* us, Ify 00 ^ ^ ' V, . * ‘ Hihl> "Oman afld child in Ainerva has '****«* Ualth enjoin «*, IffO" that we should say *no” to unfair trade deals— that we should stand up to China, that we should support our steelworkers and autoworkers and homegrown manufacturers— join us. If you believe we should expand Social Security and protect a woman s right to make her own healthcare decisions, join us. And yes, if you believe that your working mother, wife, sister or daughter deserves equal pay, join us.... Even generation of Americans has come together to make our country freer, fairer and stronger. None of us can do it alone.... 1 know that at a time when so much seems to be pulling us apart, it can be hard to imagine how well ever pull together again. But I’m here to tell you tonight: Progress is possible. 1 know because I’ve seen it in the lives of people across America who get knocked down and get right back up. And I know it from mv own life- More than a few times. I’ve had to nkk myself up and get back in the game. lake so much Le i zot this from my mother. She never let me back jivhhnibood bulk she literally blocked the door. t,o then.',' she said And she was right You have ‘".^^b^bou' -planting seeds in a garden ,M ° or Z, ( ] sag* That’s Why were here-not just y 'TT7but on this Earth. The Founders showed us * 'f: £ve niany otheni since, lit* -n- draw n that. Ami ( ^ unln uni the selfless passion to togz-tfier by (o| . who follow, That is the* “TtS. Arid « begin a new durpier tonight tun of A ^7 u : u .|,i„g W let we do. Yes. America s y„. the winhl i» » ‘ * | rtV h,. stronger together. *«t» “ M ? 7 lure with courage and confidence, lining for our la-loved children “l*Z counhy- When « do. Amenca will pater th*****' be MU LARV CLINTON *73 Democratic U,i, presidential nominee Hillary CUnton, former U.5. President Bill Clinton, their daughter, Chelsea, and their son-in-law Marc Mezvinsky celebrate onstage after Hillary’s history-making speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, DEBATING DONAI Struggling against the st ngest candidate in American story, Hillary showed her expertise. DEBATE ONE: 9/26/16 Interrupts Maximus Hofstra University, Uniondaie, New York D ONALD TRUMP interrupted Hillary Clinton 51 times during the presidential detete, prompting critics to lambast bfe attitude as sexist and misogynist Trump used the debate r>n 26 to launch a tirade a*,™, dim*, him short 17 times, according to Vox ’ * *** Trump tailed Clinton to M fa ^ support of trade deals, and her fe reim 1 , but he alar, ,«d much of the Hofetraf.niver.sity, outside New York a*. , ** question her suitability as president “Shed W a n , have!he ^ have the stamina," he armed qv. 1 n ' 1 the place. You decided to stay horned *” language in this debate was Wfy the^ ui nmary s nnal Herculean trial to gain the White House. All of her previous blemishes and antagonists had been congealed into a hoisteroi mess that threatened to wrench Hillary’s politic career from her capable hands if she didn’t h .n him the right way. Clinton began by using Trump’s condescend™ swipes to htghhght his derogatory comments toward women, which have been well reported in I |' S ' S>a man W ^° ^ as ca ^ e d women pigs, ^ °k s ’ Clinton said. “Someone who has said K i.tiu \ i s an inconvenience to employers and I ' 1 V(>nu 11 don t deserve equal pay unless the' c aS J?.° 0< ^ a job as men.” Univp . >n ' 1 c the time Thimp called forrnei “Miss' r 1 * C ° ntestant Alicia Machado “Miss Pigg>’* ni In i,; !' St *' Re P^ n & because she is 1 .at inti. ’ In rt remarks, Thimp addressed Clinton- In St. Louis, Donald Trump, who was later criticized for his strange habit of mirroring Clinton’s movements, attempted to draw attention away from his mounting sexual misconduct scandal by inviting women he claimed were victims of Bill Clinton’s own misdeeds. °^' s Sex ' srn by citing his tumultuous public "I It n . '"P vv fth comedian Rosie O’Donnell. w„u| H " ' tough things to her, and I think every bo y fo r h er ?! l, ° ^bat she deserves it, and nobody feels sorry that tiu | IVump Silid °f O’Donnell, in a non-sequitur ■ Sllr >imed up his first debate performance. By Lu C y NEWs WEEK archive, CLa RKE-BILLINGS, 9/27/16 DEBATE TWO: 10/9/16 The Aftermath of a Terrible, Horrible Week— For Trump Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri IAURA INGRAHAM was elated. After the second presidential debate had ended, the conservative author and radio talk show host appeared on Fox News Channel’s Hannity to laud Donald Tramps “decisive and frankly masterful performance" on unday, October 9 . She added: “He hit her in a way lat not a single Republican in the last 30 years has ?en able to lay a glove on the Clintons. \\ e ve been aiting for this moment for someone to take on the lintons face to face, and he did it. For the most hardcore Clinton-hating veterans of ie 199 os— like Ingraham, who reportedly helped repare Trump for primary debates, and David ossie, the deputy' Trump campaign manager, •esident of Citizens United and Whitewater hgure- ctober 0 was a kind of catharsis: the chance to „ those who've accused Bill Clinton of ratx- ®l u assmcnt on a national stage within feet of th rmer president and his wife, ,} K :cuser s in the mi I • president ■ f Ted“a"«minu«e when franf aced in the box ' j'^^empt to shift the subject IVump fe' lctl ,n ’ o i comments on the already famous Atces. ;(iul 30 years ago rainst Bill c c jj ntorl) Car woi-so. Mine "eie “If you look al , (jon what lie’s done to women, As Trump's campaign continued (o ipiral downward into a miasma of hatemongering, Hillary Clinton remained frank and on-pomt at th« final debate, dismissing Trump s refusal to accept election results as simply, “horrifying” in this nation that’s boon so abusive to women," Trump said. The Trump line of attack against the future President-Elect was doomed for a few reasons. First, campaigns are driven by new information. That sounds axiomatic, but it’s true: Revelations about Trump's taxes, his foreign business entanglements, breaking the U.S. embargo against Cuba and using Chinese steel in his buildings landed with force; reviving old allegations can never have the same impact. The allegations against the Clintons are old and have been ventilated for a long time. Consider the Juanita Broaddrick allegation that Bill Clinton raped her in 1.978, close to 40 years ago. She aired the charge in 1999. It was broadcast on national television, and it was examined by Whitewater Special Counsel Kenneth Starr. (Broaddrick signed an affidavit saying that she had not been assaulted and then recanted it.) The charge obviously carries weight with Clinton critics and even some sympathetic to the Clintons, but it’s not new— and new is what counts in politics. Ihe presence of Bill Clintons alleged victims at the debate did nothing to alter the state of political discourse-in fact, it mired IVump in a losing argument while Clinton was able to draw attention to the more recent, and therefore far more ini|x,rtant politically, question ofTrump’s own lude behavior with the fairer sex. After a tape of Trump speaking to Billy Bush on Access Hollywood and describing a penchant for non-consensual groping surfaced, the story landed with a thud atop a veritable pile of scandal. Clinton was not about to let anything stop her from talking about real issues-not the presence of her husband’s supposed victims, not another deluge of interruptions from her opponent, not even a brief detour to remind TVump that those who live in glass houses, especially if the Ik, uses m question cost many millions of dollars should not throw stones. * ★ ★ * • HREE: 10 / 19 /i6 DonaidT ,n;i1 Abating candidate^ P the most dan g erouS d ebat e provedTt hlStor T- the ,hird FROM THE NS WSWEEK ARCHIVE, ST MATTHEW COOPER. 10/10/16 2016 Was a Britt ^legations of bruising vear full of sortie just at Fox Ne^ V mone > and power -and that *** n, Kht on OctoP BUt thf- net wifi finally had a S'*' 1 r h9, months after sexual assault gJI Rations drove Roger Ailes out of the network Chi U ^ third and final presidential debate, U allace xvas a forceful, orderly and logical i v !' i ' l ' ator - hiberals who feared a right-wing bias l >-n\-ed wrong. Wallace’s performance really ^ and balanced. IX n , "’'''dates. however, weren’t as inspiring, ptvi ' 1 " as less demented than in the that a' 1 ; Uv ° (ll “bates. He didn’t tell Hillary Clinton jail if he became president, but he hockingly say he i accept the re™ * Hjs mTO „ it the time. TiymP (A1 Q,* didn't ? trad) tin" mgg crod Honda meoimt hot se ,|,e automa k Republicans ** tlW *Xm wem qua* ~ HILIARVCUNTON « CTrump.-] lives in a fantasy workl w here facts don’t matter, and what he wants for the country offe seems preposterous, especially for someone who claimed he would 'make America gi eat again. 99 Trump’s stated refusal to abide by this tradition spoke to his larger faults as far as America was concerned. He lives in a fantasy world where facts don’t matter, and what he wants for the country often seems preposterous, especially for someone who claimed he would “make America great again." At one point, for instance, Trump said he wanted health insurance premiums to go up— meaning Americans would pay more for care— because it would demonstrate that Obamacare is a failure. Getting- crushed in the polls with female voters, he sniped that Clinton w as a “nasty woman.” He referred to the START arms control treat}’ with Russia as a “start up." When he spoke of the Iraqi assault on Mosul, he initially said the Islamic State group (ISIS) had left because the U.S. telegraphed the assault. Then he said the battle w ould be much tougher than anticipated. (Both couldn’t be true) Tmmp denied the assessment of American intelligence agencies that Russia is behind the hacks of the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign chairman, John Podesta. The Democratic nominee blasted him, saying Russia was backing Trump because Putin would “rather have a puppet.” “You’re the puppet,” Trump replied, but it seemed more like a childish riposte than a i harge that would stick. And after a debate about immigration and building the wall, Tmmp said, “We have some bad hombres here”- a jibe that seemed like it pushed away his few Latino supporters. What made these mistakes more galling: Trump came into the debate trailing his opponent. Polls showed Clinton ahead in Arizona, a traditionally Republican state Democrats had won only once since 1952. Clinton had also opened up a huge lead in New Hampshire, and Virginia w as solidly blue. To have any hope of winning the election, Tmmp had to appeal to more women and make it clear he’s not a sexual predator. He also had to convince undeeideds that he's not too erratic to be president. He tailed at both, and in a lot of other ways too. Yes, he avoided some of the weirder tics of the second debate, like talking about Bill Clinton’s affairs decades after the fact. And his orderly answ-ers about the Supreme Court, the Second Amendment and overturning Roe v. Wade appealed to the conservative base. But then there were the gaffes. Perhaps the most ridiculous: He actually talked about being unfairly denied an Emmy for his reality show, The Apprentice. Doing so isn’t likely to sway an undecided voter or bring back wavering Republicans. Clintons mannered, well-rehearsed performance was better than Thump’s. Some of her answers had a scripted feel— “What kind of country will w r e be? she asked — but she did have a few zingers. “Donald thinks belittling women makes him bigger," she said. .And I don’t think there is a woman anywhere who doesn’t know what that feels like.” The 2016 c am Paign has become a national teach-in about M xua ^ harassment, and Trump’s categorical denial that he engaged in sexual assault looked w r eak compared with Clinton’s calculated empathy with his alleged victims. U f hii d debate was the last time Tmmp reached i a large audience. He could have used that stage n.s ad\ antage. He’s a talented showman who best aU< wded Re Publican field. But facing just one other j * " nl ’ 1 * u ' ( ’OP nominee’s lack of preparation ' OWed - (At one point, he said he’d spent much of the jty 'Mtohjng cables news.) Clinton’s solid command r ^~ a s< 'lf-irrunolating decision to use a private Hl serv er and a reset with Russia that gained the •nothing. Knowing what you’re talking about it matte- u^ich is why Tmmp found himself on the verge of r lefeat after the debate. He’s not onlv a bad Z X&**"*** from the archive, B y MATTHEW COOPER. '0/20/16 HILlftRV C1INTON S’ Alec Baldwin portrays Donald Trump as Kate McKinnon plays Hillary Clinton on one of Saturday Night Live's debate parodies. Clinton herself once appeared on the show as McKinnon’s Hillary’s bartender, while in contrast. Trump— who hosted the show in 2015 — characteristically claimed that the skits had been an example of the media’s bias toward Clinton. In one especially poignant moment after the second presidential debate, McKinnon and Baldwin were prompted to say something nice about each other’s characters: Hillary thanks Donald for his generosity in “Handing |her] the election” through his mounting pile of scandals and alleged assaults. For her part, the real Hillary Clinton was very impressed with McKinnon's satirical work during the election. “Oh, my gosh, she was amazing,” Clinton told Time before singling out McKinnon’s Willy Wonka-style entrance to the first debate sketch, poking fun at the Trump campaign’s fascination with Clinton's health, “i wish I could do the "Jumps, the spirts, the somersault I’ve been working on it” tomir ’« from *U (6f n of »►»* »Udu Newsweek Vi Iff S5ftil* So Misunderstood It’s a Sin r "V'Mv (vs^’eek SUBSCRIBE ONUNE AT NEWSWEEK.COM/SUBSCRIBt AVAILABLE :FOR > ^.^hudson news i ouani mi Ain HILLARY: THE HUMAN One of Hillary Clinton’s most brilliant ca mpaigning moves was simply te ing her story. T hr the stories of— mostly— everyday de ens of the city, Humans of New Y< an online photo project started b\ irandon Stanton, sheds light on the Bu Apple’s eight million stories one at “time. But a^ he election reached a fever pitch f'thauvinisn Hillary Clinton was able to use ie forum to i ake a rare departure from politics ^ 'nto her e iotional past. As Donald Trumps jPporters crassly tried to infuse subtle hints that ; , at ^ cou ldn possibly have the ‘‘stamina or the gnient to be president, Hillary revealed a story } ler ^ rnans °f New York that simultaneously proved tendg 355 * n ^ ea '’ n § with sexism and explained her H er nC ' to a PP e ^r distant sometimes in public, herwh ? rmance debates may have sealed ge n ju s n ut l h e Humans of New York piece was a Eolation at exactly the right time. “T c ^ cls ^ 7 - 0o ln ^ a ^ 0tc ’ school admissions test in a big a> Harvard. My friend and I were some of the only women in the room. I was feeling nervous. I was a senior in college. I wasn’t sure how well I’d do. And while we’re waiting for the exam to start, a group of men began to yell things like: You don t need to be here.' And ‘There’s plen ty else you can do.' It turned into a real ] pile on.' One of them even said • ‘If you take my spot. I’ll get drafted, and I ll go to Vietnam, and IV die: And then weren’t kiddmg around. It was intense. It got very personal. But couldn’t respond. ' ctmldn’t afford to get d^ because I didn’t want to mess up the test. So Ijvjt Lt looking dour,, hoping that the proctor woM ZL^oom.I^thatl^^ as aloof or cold orun = ,al ^ « « rfZZ to walk. Because you need to that’s a hard path to w protect yourself. JK*" J g seem WM iff the same time ; mm across more in the And sometime- if j (re ate that perception. •walled off arena. • ^ y view myself as cola ,htn,,a Y'f!TZdn%herdomyfriends.Ar,d or unemotional Ana _ t s t blame people for the perception! crei • humansofiiy.com thinking that -TV. j um.ARYCUNTON-^ Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visits FirstStepNYC, an early childhood development center in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York on April 1, 2015. In 2010, Brownsville and the bordering neighborhoods of East New York, Bed-Stuy, Crown Heights and East Flatbush, accounted for 25 percent of the city’s homicides. S AN FRANCISCO philanthropist Susie Tompkins Buell says the first time she was in the same room with Hillary Clinton was at a fundraiser for Bill Clinton, in the early 1990s. Hillary was there to deliver the introduction, and Buell was instantly smitten— but not by the candidate. “I remember thinking, "She is going to run for president someday— it should be her,'” Buell, the founder of Esprit clothing, recalls. ‘I could feel her dedication.” Philanthropist Swanee Hunt who spends much of the money she inherited from her Texas oilfield magnate father, a conservative, on progressive ' a 11 scs and candidates, has a similar memory, In October 1992, she organized a fundraiser in Th nver called “Serious Women, Serious Issues and Sf nous Money." aiming to raise $t million fur B'll C !lnlon * presidential campaign. Hillary was one 1 thr key speakers. "I sat there in the audience mng to Hillary talking about the economy, and ’"ght. Holy Ioledo, how can someone stand F h it \\ ith no notes and sound like the head n! urld Bank or Federal Reserve? - Judith Hope. was New York state Democratic chairwoman .mil * e l ' rTle > first realized Clinton’s potential at I, f women’s leadership luncheon in s^v * ^°°ked at the women in the room, and I j r ’ s ^ e absolutely captivated them with her b nCC aru * ^ er humor.” Sll f 1 c l )a - sl J-O years, Hillary Clinton has prj J herself with deeply loyal women— political them a little younger than her and they rri t/J have been selected for their diversity— Vj r Mn ’ ^ino, Muslim, Jewish— as much as £fer^ r,,t ‘ T an d brains. Among the closest longtime f 'hticos are ad guru Mandy Grunwald, lawyer tains ouviu. and unconditional love and i d ;;;:; y r m a kiu:hen ** ^ ^4* who in Am ■ Wh °.! >l ' iieve sl "’ * a W for mural go«l Lilian politics and who dearly want lost, n female P , esldl '“- “Like their candidate, mos, came ol age ,"' the I naf through their yearbooks and wedding albums and you find bell-bottoms, long hair and gi anny glasses the same look Hiliarv rocked at Wellesley. Flip forward a few pages and there the\ arc in shoulder pads, often the only woman in sighi at the law firm or corporate office. They started getting jobs before 1980, when more women identified as housewives than as workers, and were part of the social revolution that has led to women nov making up almost 50 percent of the American workforce. Many in the Clinton circle were, like her. “firsts ' A close high school buddy was the flight attendant who led the fight against airline gender discrimination. Another was the first in her business school. Some made their own fortunes, some inherited money or married rich, but all started writing big checks at a time-not that long ago -when men handled that dirty business. Clinton’s top female donors now rank among the 150 most generous ^vers— who are still mostly male-to Clinton super p A ll rtrl Cm) floe J Plus the latest issues BEFORE they hit stores!