The Hillary Papers Archive of 'closest friend' paints portrait of ruthless First Lady
BY: Alana Goodman
February 9, 2014 9:58 pm
On May 12, 1992, Stan Greenberg and Celinda Lake, top pollsters for Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign, issued a confidential memo. The memo’s 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The full memo is one of many previously unpublished documents contained in the archive of one of Hillary Clinton’s best friends and advisers, documents that portray the former first lady, secretary of State, and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 Blair’s 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 Blair’s 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 wife’s 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 Clinton’s 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.”
"...documents that portray the former first lady, secretary of State, and potential 2016 presidential candidate as a strong, ambitious, and ruthless Democratic operative."
ho-hum Ms Goodman, tell us something we didn't know. These thugs have turned bad into good over and over again. Only if Americans wake up will we be spared her reign right after this reign.
******************* Christianity teaches to share what we have earned, the "cheerful giver" model. Christianity: It's mine but I choose to give away Socialism: What's yours should be mine
Look, here's the witch who when the missing Rose Law firm's billing records were found in her bedroom!!!, she denied any knowledge and talked her way out of it.
When the four dead Americans in Libya were her fault she was allowed to ask, "What difference does it make?" and talk her way out of it.
She is a vile person who has followers wed ONLY to the agenda, above anything else. You can get away with a lot of sh## when that's all that matters to the voting public.
******************* Christianity teaches to share what we have earned, the "cheerful giver" model. Christianity: It's mine but I choose to give away Socialism: What's yours should be mine