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Jewish World Review
June 22, 2005
/ 15 Sivan, 5765
Inside Hillary's mind
By
Tony Blankley
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About once a year I review a book in this column that ought to
be required reading for people who care about politics. Edward Klein's "The
Truth About Hillary" is such a book. The pre-publication leak about the
book that Bill Clinton had allegedly talked about raping his wife was
off-putting for me. I don't usually waste my time reading salacious scandal
books from the Left or the Right. But I was advised to take a look at this
book, which I read last weekend.
It was worth my time. This is not a scandal book intended merely
to gratify the reader's salacious interests. Instead, Mr. Klein has written
a serious political and psychological biography of the most likely next
Democratic nominee for president and thus, quite plausibly, I fear, the
next president of the United States.
Although this is a heavily researched book that includes amongst
its sources almost a hundred people who are or were personally close to Mrs.
Clinton, this is not a peek through a keyhole. Instead, it is a peek and
more than a peek into the mind of Hillary. And, whether you like or hate
Hillary, the inside of her mind is a fascinating place in which to rove
about. Hillary haters will certainly find further evidence to support their
sentiment. Principled liberals, I suspect, will be deeply disconcerted by
what they will find out about her mind in this book.
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But for people who like their presidents ruthless, expedient and
very smart (in a dangerous time, those are not all bad features), the
portrait Mr. Klein paints may well not be seen as negative. In fact, as the
author notes, Mrs. Clinton has more than a little in common with Richard
Nixon.
One of the more interesting anecdotes recounted in the book
describes the time President and Mrs. Clinton met with President Nixon. It
was March 1993, the first time Nixon had been invited back to the White
House since he departed in 1974:
"The elevator door opened, and the first person Nixon saw when
he stepped off was Hillary Clinton.'Your health care reform legislation in
1973-74 was so good that we are using it as a blueprint for our own
package,' Hillary said. This struck Nixon as an incredibly strange, wonkish
greeting from the First Lady. But then Hillary managed to top even that by
adding: "Had you survived in office, you would have been light years ahead
of your time." "Had I survived in office! Nixon later remembered thinking.
Maybe I could have if she hadn't been working to impeach me."
The anecdote continued with Nixon's recollection that he had
thought that Bill Clinton was too nice to provide world leadership:
"He doesn't scare anybody.' Then Nixon added, as though he had a
sudden insight: 'Hillary inspires fear.' Nixon explained that a few minutes
after the meeting started Chelsea Clinton joined the group." The kid ran
right to Clinton and never once looked at her mother. I could see that she
had a warm relationship with him, but was almost afraid of her mother.
Hillary is ice-cold. You can see it in her eyes. She is a piece of work .
Hillary inspires fear." Of course, for Nixon, that was a high compliment.
For any woman running for president, she must first prove to the
public that she is tough enough. And what better character reference could
such a woman hope for than from the arch-tough guy President Richard Nixon.
If readers with a taste for realpolitic find the previous Nixon
endorsement of her toughness comforting, liberals will find chapter 39
positively chilling. Therein Mr. Klein describes Sen. Clinton's encounter
with some New York liberals who had raised money and campaigned for her, and
had close ties to Marian Wright Edelman (Mrs. Clinton's ideological
godmother.) The women had come in to seek Sen. Clinton's support for a
child-care bill. When they asked her why she was not supporting it, Sen.
Clinton explained: "It's not going to fly. I'm not going to spend my
political capital on something that is doomed before it starts." The women
responded: "We want you to spend your capital whether you win or not . If it
was Ted Kennedy, he'd stand on what he believes." Hillary bristled at the
invidious comparison between her and Ted Kennedy . "If you don't understand
my position, there is nothing more to say. I have other people waiting .
Goodbye." And with that, she strode out of the room in a huff." The women
understood quite well:" she will do anything to get to the White House,
including dropping child care."
But perhaps the most revealing chapters of the book are numbers
six through eight, in which Mr. Klein studies Hillary Clinton's childhood.
The focus of those years is her father, a former Penn state football star
and Navy drill instructor. He raised young Hillary and her two brothers to
be tough, excel at all things and fight to win, which Hillary did, literally
on a number of occasions punching out boys larger than her who displeased
her. Mr. Klein's description of Hugh Rodham Sr.'s parenting methods reminded
me of no one so much as Joseph Kennedy Sr. father of a president and two
senators.
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