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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrove Of Documents From Hillary Clinton's 'Closest Friend' Uncovered
http://freebeacon.com/the-hillary-papers/NO MATTER WHAT IS IN THIS, I WILL STILL VOTE FOR HILLARY!!!!! THE SMEAR CAMPAIGN CONTINUES!!!!
On May 12, 1992, Stan Greenberg and Celinda Lake, top pollsters for Bill Clintons presidential campaign, issued a confidential memo. The memos subject was Research on Hillary Clinton.
Voters admired the strength of the Arkansas first couple, the pollsters wrote. However, they also fear that only someone too politically ambitious, too strong, and too ruthless could survive such controversy so well.
Their conclusion: What voters find slick in Bill Clinton, they find ruthless in Hillary.
The full memo is one of many previously unpublished documents contained in the archive of one of Hillary Clintons best friends and advisers, documents that portray the former first lady, secretary of State, and potential 2016 presidential candidate as a strong, ambitious, and ruthless Democratic operative.
The papers of Diane Blair, a political science professor Hillary Clinton described as her closest friend before Blairs death in 2000, record years of candid conversations with the Clintons on issues ranging from single-payer health care to Monica Lewinsky.
The archive includes correspondence, diaries, interviews, strategy memos, and contemporaneous accounts of conversations with the Clintons ranging from the mid-1970s to the turn of the millennium.
Diane Blairs husband, Jim Blair, a former chief counsel at Tyson Foods Inc. who was at the center of Cattlegate, a 1994 controversy involving the unusually large returns Hillary Clinton made while trading cattle futures contracts in the 1970s, donated his wifes papers to the University of Arkansas Special Collections library in Fayetteville after her death.
The full contents of the archive, which before 2010 was closed to the public, have not previously been reported on and shed new light on Clintons three decades in public life. The records paint a complex portrait of Hillary Clinton, revealing her to be a loyal friend, devoted mother, and a cutthroat strategist who relished revenge against her adversaries and complained in private that nobody in the White House was tough and mean enough.
THE SEX FILES
On July 28, 1997, President Clinton was facing yet another wave of allegations from yet another woman. Kathleen Willey had accused Clinton of sexually assaulting her, and Blair faxed a Drudge Report item about her claims to one of the presidents aides.
Blairs handwritten note attached to the story: Do we take Matt Drudge seriously?
Six months later, Drudge would break the story of an affair between Clinton and 22-year-old White House intern Monica Lewinsky, setting in motion the events that would lead to the presidents impeachment.
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Trove Of Documents From Hillary Clinton's 'Closest Friend' Uncovered (Original Post)
mfcorey1
Feb 2014
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truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)1. This interests me:
"NO MATTER WHAT IS IN THIS, I WILL STILL VOTE FOR HILLARY!!!!! THE SMEAR CAMPAIGN CONTINUES!!!!"
It made me think of the debate Bill Nye just had with that creationist. They were both asked what would make them change their minds. One said, "Nothing"; the other said, "Evidence."
Just a thought. After Obama, maybe "tough and mean" is what we need...if it is employed in our interests.
It made me think of the debate Bill Nye just had with that creationist. They were both asked what would make them change their minds. One said, "Nothing"; the other said, "Evidence."
Just a thought. After Obama, maybe "tough and mean" is what we need...if it is employed in our interests.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)2. My thought exactly.
a kennedy
(29,675 posts)3. and didn't everyone love the "tough and mean" Iron Lady of Britain??
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)4. Good point.
"Tough" is fine--FDR was tough--but "mean" isn't.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)6. being tough is not about being a bully
people get confused on that point.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)5. I am voting for Hillary as well and hope nothing is damaging.