On Bill and Hillary's First Date... They Crossed a Picket Line.
From In These Times.
>>>>Yale Law School students Hillary Rodham and Bill Clinton were both members, alongside future Connecticut senator Richard Blumenthal and Bill Clintons eventual Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor Robert Reich, of the Yale Law School Students Committee for Local 35, the university's blue-collar worker union, and signatories, during the week before the union went on strike, to a statement asserting WE BELIEVE THE UNION DESERVES THE SUPPORT OF YALE STUDENTS AND FACULTY." Bill Clinton was even, former UNITE HERE President John Wilhelm would note decades later in his eulogy for Vincent Sirabella, the Voter Registration Chairman of the Sirabella for Mayor Campaign.
And yet, on her first date with classmate Clinton in 1971, Rodham would later recall:
We both had wanted to see a Mark Rothko exhibit at the Yale Art Gallery but, because of a labor dispute, some of the university's buildings, including the museum, were closed. As Bill and I walked by, he decided he could get us in if we offered to pick up the litter that had accumulated in the gallery's courtyard. Watching him talk our way in was the first time I saw his persuasiveness in action. We had the entire museum to ourselves. We wandered through the galleries talking about Rothko and twentieth-century art. I admit to being surprised at his interest in and knowledge of subjects that seemed, at first, unusual for a Viking from Arkansas. We ended up in the museum's courtyard, where I sat in the large lap of Henry Moore's sculpture Drape Seated Woman while we talked until dark.
The relationship between Rodham and Clinton, two instrumental figures in the decoupling of the Democratic Party from the priorities of the mainstream labor movement, thus began with the crossing of a picket line.>>>>
http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/18841/hillary_rodham_bill_clinton_and_the_1971_yale_strike
jehop61
(1,735 posts)Relevant to today. Surprised they didn't find this when they were vilifying Bill back in '98
nichomachus
(12,754 posts)It's the Hillary gang that's making such a big deal of her "experience" and her "record." This is a part of her "experience" and her "record" and gives us an insight into her character.
If you prefer, we can just forget about anything and everything she did in the past, but then she has nothing to run on.
Or are we just going to cherry pick the things that make her look good and ignore the things that give us insight into her character.
noamnety
(20,234 posts)seems problematic. It's bad that they did it, but if I'm understanding the article correctly, that was how in her late 50's she viewed the event. Not with regret for crossing the picket line, or any acknowledgement that it was wrong, but with pride that they crossed it and that Bill could talk his way into getting the privilege of having the entire museum to themselves even though it was closed.
bowens43
(16,064 posts)and became the tools of big business and the wealthy
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)Did they ever *really* "buy in"?
Or did they just pretend to?