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 Hillary
(& Bill) Clinton
excerpts
from the Iowa Daily Report
official draft Hillary website:
July 2003
…OK
fine, let Hillary run for president of
France. Report from Fox News Channel
online –headline, “French First Lady
Says Sen. Clinton
Should Run for President” -- France’s
first lady expressed her support for a
presidential run by Sen. Hillary Rodham
Clinton, saying that such a candidacy
would be an inspiration to women worldwide.
Bernadette Chirac, the wife of
French President Jacques Chirac, made the
comments Wednesday on a prime-time TV
newscast featuring an interview with the
New York Democrat, who is in France to
promote her new book. ‘There are a lot
of women who hope one day she'll run for
the presidency of the United States and
that she'll win,’ Mrs. Chirac said of
Sen. Clinton in recorded remarks on TF1
television. She said it would spur
women ‘across the whole world to engage in
politics.’ The French translation of
Sen. Clinton's memoir, Living History
has been a hit in France since arriving at
bookstores here about three weeks ago.
According to weekly magazine Le Nouvel
Observateur, the book has held No. 3
in the nonfiction sales rankings for the
past two weeks. The French language title
of the book is Mon Histoire (My
History).”
(7/5/2003)
… BBC
headline: “Hillary hopes for female US
president” Excerpt from the BBC:
“Hillary Clinton has given her followers
hope that she will one day run for US
president during a BBC interview. Speaking
to Radio 4's Woman's Hour, the former
First Lady ruled out a presidential bid in
2004 - but did not do the same about the
2008 campaign. And, asked about her
husband's affair with Monica Lewinsky she
spoke of love and marriage as being
between ‘two imperfect people’. Mrs
Clinton is in the UK for a short visit to
promote her autobiography, Living History,
and visit her daughter Chelsea in Oxford.
Around 500 fans queued in London on
Thursday for a chance to meet the New York
senator at a book-signing session. In her
Woman's Hour interview, Mrs Clinton
said hoped a woman would be elected as US
president in her lifetime. Asked if
she would stand, she ruled out a campaign
in 2004 and said of 2008: ‘(It) is an
eternity in American politics. But I think
that the role I'm playing, trying to bring
attention to issues, trying to get people
to focus on what's at stake is a very
appropriate role for me.’ Asked how her
husband Bill would feel about being ‘First
Man’, she replied: ‘I don't know if he'll
ever have a chance to figure that out.’” (Iowa
Pres Watch Note: This is just too
irresistible. Is Hillary conceding
she’s one of the “imperfect people” –
since, obviously, most responsible
Americans knew Bill was imperfect the
minute he came over the national political
horizon.) (7/6/2003)
…
Related coverage
from the files: Fox News headline – “Experts:
Could Be Hillary vs. Condi for Prez
in ‘08” An excerpt from Jennifer
D’Angelo’s 6/18 report: “No woman has ever
received a major party nomination for the
presidency, but some have speculated that in
2008, not one, but two women could be
competing for the White House. In recent
interviews, New York Democratic Sen. Hillary
Clinton said she had ‘no intention’ of running
for president in 2008 -- but did not rule it
out, leading many to believe a race is
possible. And if the former first lady were
to run, some say National Security
Adviser Condoleezza Rice would be the perfect
Republican to pit against her. ‘I’ve been
speculating on that [match-up] for a year and
half,’ said GOP strategist Cheri Jacobus. ‘The
greatest strength Hillary has is she’s a woman
in what many consider a man’s world. If the
GOP candidate were a woman as well, she’d have
to run on merit, not on ‘I’m a woman hear me
roar,’’ Jacobus said. Both women have
plenty of merits. Born in Chicago on Oct.
26, 1947, Clinton grew up in Park Ridge, Ill.,
and is a 1973 graduate of Yale Law School. She
worked as an attorney while her husband was
governor of Arkansas, and performed the duties
of the nation's first lady for eight years. On
Nov. 7, 2000, Clinton became the first first
lady to be elected to the U.S. Senate. She is
also an advocate of women’s rights and public
works projects for her state of New York….Born
Nov. 14, 1954, in segregation-era Birmingham,
Ala., Rice got her Ph.D. from the University
of Denver's Graduate School of International
Studies in 1981. A former political science
professor and provost of Stanford University,
she was President George H.W. Bush’s adviser
on Soviet affairs before becoming the current
President Bush’s national security adviser. On
the issues, Hillary is regarded by many
as a liberal who tried and failed to
nationalize health care. ‘The worst thing
the Democrats can do is to nominate Hillary.
She’s so far to the left that the center would
be turned off,’ said Republican strategist
Paul Pelletier…Jacobus added that Rice’s
pro-choice position could help her against
Clinton, but could hurt her in the GOP primary.
Democratic strategist and former
Gore-Lieberman presidential campaign spokesman
Doug Hattaway said Rice's gender would be a
big bonus for the Republicans in a race
against Clinton, but added that he doesn’t
think a contest between the two females would
focus on topics like abortion and family
leave. ‘I don’t think a campaign between
two women would turn much on women’s issues.
It would turn on who has a better vision for
the country, on who would better lead the
world’s only superpower.’”(7/6/2003)
… Is
this 2008 – or is Hillary yearning to move
up her timetable for the White House?
Headline from Dick Morris’ column in
yesterday’s New York Post: “As Bush
Falters, Watch Hill Run” Excerpts from
Morris column: “George W. Bush's job
approval ratings are dropping a point
every other week. Most polls now have
his support down in the high or mid-50s.
Pollster John Zogby has them at 53 percent
- a huge drop from the low 70s he was
registering just two months ago. The
lower Bush drops, the more likely it is
that Hillary Clinton runs for president in
2004. She and her husband cannot permit a
Democrat not named Clinton to beat Bush in
'04. If one does, she can't run in '08
against an incumbent Democratic president.
She'd have to wait until 2012, by which
time she would be 65 and out of the White
House for 12 years. The weaker Bush
gets, the more likely a Hillary Clinton
candidacy becomes.
One can imagine the breakfast table
conversation in Chappaqua. President
Clinton will say ‘remember how Mario Cuomo
decided that my predecessor, George H.W.
Bush, couldn't be beaten and didn't run?
Remember how I did?’ The
analogy
will be most on point. Like Hillary in
2004, Cuomo could easily have won the
nomination in 1992. By staying out, he
left the door open for Bill Clinton much
as Hillary may be opening it for another
Democrat this year. But the historical
parallel that rings most true is buried
deeper in New York and American history.
In 1968, Robert F. Kennedy, also a
carpetbag senator from New York, resisted
running for president against Lyndon
Johnson. Convinced that he could not
defeat an incumbent chief executive from
his own party, Kennedy refused to take the
president on. Then, an obscure Senator
from Minnesota, Eugene McCarthy, showed
how vulnerable Johnson was by scoring well
in the New Hampshire primary. Kennedy,
seeing his chance for the White House slip
away, jumped into the race to challenge
Johnson. Freaked, LBJ withdrew a few weeks
later. If Hillary ran, she'd march,
almost unopposed, to the nomination. Every
candidate but Edwards and Dean is funding
his campaign with donors borrowed from the
Clinton organization. Would she run?
It would depend on how low and how fast
Bush sinks. If he remains in free fall
until September and October and his
ratings drop below 50 percent, Hillary
will be itching to go… The White House
needs to remember that it doesn't have a
year to improve Bush's popularity.
Hillary will decide in the next four
months whether to run.”(7/24/2003)
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