Bill Clinton in Hillary Clinton: The Inside Story, by Judith Warner
On Principles & Values:
Worked several jobs to pay for law school
Bill Clinton at Yale was a bit older than the average law student, and bore more responsibilities. Although he was fortunate enough to be chosen for one of Yale’s few law school scholarships, the money was nowhere near enough to cover even the most meage
costs of living. To meet expenses, he was forced to hold as many as three part time jobs at once. In the course of his years at Yale he taught at a small community college, staffed for a city councilman at Hartford, and worked for a lawyer in New Haven.
Source: The Inside Story, by Judith Warner, p. 47
Aug 1, 1999
On Principles & Values:
Betsy Wright: Bill had female ‘fan base’ nationwide
Betsy Wright [Chief of Staff while Clinton was Arkansas Governor and campaign staffer] on Bill Clinton’s female ‘fan base’: “They were on the streets, sidewalks, in choirs, singing at his church. They were in the walls here.
And nationwide! We’d go to a National Governors Association meeting and there’d be women licking his feet. There were always so many women who were throwing themselves at him.”
Source: The Inside Story, by Judith Warner, p.110
Aug 1, 1999
On Principles & Values:
Alcoholic dad may have defined Clinton’s personality
Bill Clinton, as the stepchild of an alcoholic father, came into adulthood with a legacy of family dysfunction that he had almost no choice but to re-enact to a certain degree with Hillary.
It is also axiomatic that adult children of alcoholics will seek affirmation and approval everywhere they can find it. They lack the inner mechanism that naturally allows them to feel good about themselves, and are cruelly harsh in judging themselves.
Source: The Inside Story, by Judith Warner, p.111
Aug 1, 1999
On Principles & Values:
Hillary’s coldness contributed to Bill’s infidelity
Hillary knew Bill too well: his warts and weaknesses alike. She too was disappointed, critical of his first term in office, if not personally of him. It is altogether understandable that, under conditions that would have been so painful to him,
he went beyond his marriage to seek the feeling of unconditional love and approval he so needed-the kind of love that, for people with poor self esteem, a spouse cannot provide.
Source: The Inside Story, by Judith Warner, p.112
Aug 1, 1999
On Principles & Values:
The Star paid Gennifer Flowers for affair story
The Star agreed to pay [Gennifer Flowers] a considerable amount of money for the tapes and her statement that she had been Clinton’s lover for twelve years. The Star shortly after published a rehash of the Nichols suit.In the story,
Flowers claimed she had begun to see Clinton in 1977 and continued an affair with him even after she had moved to Dallas in the early 1980s. She had told friends then about special visits from a ‘Bill’ from Arkansas.
Source: The Inside Story, by Judith Warner, p.178
Aug 1, 1999
On Principles & Values:
Evidence disappeared in Whitewater scandal
Many other questions could not be answered, because Whitewater’s records could not be located. Jim McDougal said that at the Governor’s request they had been delivered to the mansion years earlier.
The Clintons said that many of them had simply disappeared.No evidence of wrongdoing ever emerged. Federal regulators finally took the savings and loan away from McDougal, and a federal grand jury charged him with fraud.
Source: The Inside Story, by Judith Warner, p.184
Aug 1, 1999
On Education:
1984 budget proposed $180M for Hillary's education reform
In Hillary's Ed Reform Report, a demand for statewide teacher testing was less well received. The proposal unleashed a torrent of opposition and the teachers' union geared up for war. The National Education
Association fought the test in court but failed.The governor's legislative package that year included a proposed $180 million tax increase for education. The revenues were to come from a highly controversial sales tax increase.
The teachers test, which was popular with parents if not teachers, was a way to make the people of Arkansas feel they were "getting" something--accountability--for their hard-earned tax money.
Clinton said he felt "it is a small price to pay for the biggest tax increase in the history of the state and to restore the teaching profession to the position of public esteem that I think it deserves."
Source: The Inside Story, by Judith Warner, p. 128
Aug 1, 1993
On Families & Children:
Favors parental choice in childcare & in education
Some of the Children's Defense Fund's positions pitted Bill and Hillary Clinton against each other. When the CDF lobbied for an array of federal standards governing child care,
Bill Clinton, then head of the National Governors' Association, opposed them and won.They also parted company on the
ABC child-care program, a proposal designed to encourage national standards, centralized service delivery, and credentialized care-givers. Hillary strongly supported the bill, which Bill opposed, and it was defeated in Congress in 1990.
Bill Clinton's own Arkansas child-care bill, like his education reforms, includes elements of parental choice.
Source: The Inside Story, by Judith Warner, p. 211
Aug 1, 1993
On Foreign Policy:
1980: Criticized for letting Cubans escape from prison
They rioted on June 1, and about two hundred of them escaped far enough down Highway 22 to make an impending siege of Baring, Arkansas, look possible, it was as if the worst fears of doomsayers had come true.The image of rabid
Cubans running through the streets of Arkansas past the homes of "good folks" became a perfect rallying point for the campaign efforts of Clinton's opponents. Frank White let out word throughout Arkansas that Bill Clinton had basically gone to
Cuba, picked all the most violent and depraved criminals out of Castro's jails, and invited them to their state out of the perverse kindness of his heart.
Bill Clinton first saw the commercial in the governor's mansion in late October.
After he watched the ad, Clinton turned to the others in disbelief.
"Do people really believe this stuff?" he asked. "Sure they do," someone said. Heads nodded.
Source: The Inside Story, by Judith Warner, p. 105-6
Aug 1, 1993
On Principles & Values:
Attended Yale on a law school scholarship
Bill Clinton at Yale was a long-haired, bearded Rhodes Scholar. Although he had been fortunate enough to be chosen for one of Yale's few law school scholarships, the money was nowhere near enough to cover even the most meager costs of living.
To meet expenses he was forced to hold as many as three part-time jobs at once. In the course of his years at Yale, he taught at a small community college, staffed for a city councilman in Hartford, and worked for a lawyer in downtown New Haven.
Like Hillary, he had clearly not come to law school to prepare for a career on Wall Street. Politics was his destiny.
During his first three months of law school, he worked full-time on a political campaign, only starting to study for his classes after the November election. He then amazed his worried friends by acing all his finals.
Source: The Inside Story, by Judith Warner, p. 47
Aug 1, 1993