Hillary Clinton’s History as First Lady: Powerful, but Not Always Deft

[William769]

WASHINGTON — As a young lawyer for the Watergate committee in the 1970s, Hillary Rodham caught a ride home one night with her boss, Bernard Nussbaum. Sitting in the car before going inside, she told him she wanted to introduce him to her boyfriend. “Bernie,” she said, “he’s going to be president of the United States.”

Mr. Nussbaum, stressed by the pressure of that tumultuous period, blew up at her audacious naïveté. “Hillary, that’s the most idiotic” thing, he screamed. She screamed back. “You don’t know a goddamn thing you’re talking about!” she said, and then called him a curse word. “God, she started bawling me out,” he recalled. “She walks out and slammed the door on me, and she storms into the building.”

It turned out she was right and he was wrong. Ms. Rodham, who later married that ambitious boyfriend, Bill Clinton, believed even then that life would take her to the White House and now may seek to return not as a spouse and partner, but on her own terms.

In recent months, as Mrs. Clinton has prepared for a likely 2016 presidential campaign, she has often framed those White House years as a period when, like many working mothers, she juggled the demands of raising a young daughter and having a career. She talks about championing women’s rights globally, supporting her husband during years of robust economic growth, and finding inspiration in Eleanor Roosevelt to stay resolute in the midst of personal attacks.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/06/us/politics/hillary-clintons-history-as-first-lady-powerful-but-not-always-deft.html?_r=0

Long article but worth the read. She has to run, she just has to. The talent & experience she wields would be a great compliment after President Obama.

[Thinkingabout]

1. She is strong willed, has the ability to stand on her own.

I wonder when she was telling her boyfriend was going to be president did she ever consider she may be also.

[William769]

2. I honestly believe that may have been in the back of her mind.

You are correct, she is "strong willed". She has been active since the 70's and has seen it all in her position.

I cannot fathom her not running this time. When I think of Hillary, this comes to mind- "I am woman, hear me roar", and that's a good thing!

[Thinkingabout]

3. Thanks for your post, lots of things have changed for females, I have been a

female who entered a traditionally a male position, loved the work but there was many bucks different in the bucks, still have a way to go. I am happy to see many more "evolving" on other issues as same sex marriages, have thought it was so cruel some years back the ones who loved and cared for each other did not have the right to sit by their bedside, could be kicked out by a family and sometimes could not grieve at a funeral for their loved one. Hopefully this will totally pass. Hillary has marched with the LGBT parades, it is coming.

[William769]

4. Hillary is a champion for lending a voice to those who need it.