Chapter 10:The Clintons

A Guide to Abbreviations in Notes:

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344 The average age...: Ben J. Wattenberg, The Birth Dearth (New York, 1987), pp. 124-125

344 "Never have...": Judith Warner, Hillary Clinton (New York,1993), p. 75.

344 "her own name": Virginia Clinton Kelley with James Morgan, Leading With My Heart (New York, 1994), p. 236.

344 "Look, if...": David Maraniss, First in His Class (New York, 1995), p. 247.

345 "All we ever...": BC to Carolyn Yeldell Staley in Maraniss, First, p. 342.

345 "he combined...": HRC in Parade, 11 Apr. 1993, p. 6.

345 ruining her life.: Peter Edelman referred to in Vogue, Dec.1993, p. 232.

345 "I had no...": People, 17 Feb. 1992, p. 43.

345 "urge to heroism": Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death (New York, 1973), p. 4. See also Maraniss, First, p. 345.

345 The fertility...: The actual numbers are 3.6 in 1960, 1.8 in 1975. Baby boom fertility peaked in 1957. Ben J. Wattenberg, The First Universal Nation (New York, 1991), p. 85.

345 "our generation": BC, "Announcement Speech," 3 Oct. 1991, Bill Clinton and Al Gore, Putting People First (New York, 1992), p. 197.

346 "a new kind...": Ibid., pp. 191, 187.

346 "buy one...": Vanity Fair, May 1992, p. 143.

346 "If you vote...": WasP, 10 Mar. 1992, E2.

346 Only 28 percent...: Time, 4 Jan. 1993, p. 41.

346 "I'm not some...": Warner, Hillary, p. 185.

346 "They don't have...": Roger Morris, Partners in Power (New York, 1996), p. 440.

346 "I wish...": Time, 27 Jan. 1992, p. 44

347 "Every time he...": George Stephanopoulos, All Too Human (Boston, 1999), p. 60.

347 "You know, Ted...": Peter Goldman, et al., Quest for the Presidency 1992 (College Station, TX, 1994), p. 124.

347 "electability problem...": James Stewart, Blood Sport (New York, 1996), p. 213.

347 "I don't care...": Warner, Hillary, p. 185.

347 this "New Age" ...: On modern man's "fear of the wimp" see Michael Kimmel, Manhood in America (New York, 1996), p. 298.

348 "Bill: stop...": NYT, 26 Mar. 1992, A23.

348 a symbol of...: See Anne Firor Scott, The Southern Lady (Chicago, 1970), p. 230.

348 "the overbearing yuppie...": NYT, 18 May 1992, A15.

348 "new class"... : Peter Steinfels, The Neoconservatives (New York, 1979), p. 287; Christopher Lasch, The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy (New York, 1995), p. 6.

348 "Yuppie": See Time, 9 Jan. 1984, p. 66; Marissa Piesman and Marilee Hartley, Yuppie Handbook (New York, 1983). For Ralph Whitehead's critique and description of less-affluent baby-boom "new collars," see ChiT, 9 July 1985, C1.

348 only 28 percent: George H. Gallup, The Gallup Poll, 3 vols.(New York, 1972), 3:2196.

348 "I am too...": NYT, 18 May 1992, A15.

348 "the women's movement...": Julianne Malveaux in LAT, 22 Mar.1992, M5.

349 "prevailing, acquisitive...: Life, 20 June 1969, p. 31.

349 "family, church on...": GH, Jan. 1993, p. 98.

349 "straight out of...": Hillary Rodham Clinton, It Takes a Village (New York, 1996), pp. 20, 156.

349 "that feminist...": ChiT, 31 Jan. 1992, 1:10.

349 "It meant more...": Time, 27 Jan. 1992, p. 19.

350 Rodham family...: Morris, Partners, p. 115.

350 "to her...": People, 17 Feb. 1992, p. 43.

350 "ladyness...: Mary Ellen Guy, "Hillary, Health Care, and Gender Power," Georgia Duerst-Lahti and Rita Mae Kelly, eds. Gender Power, Leadership and Governance (Ann Arbor, MI:1995), p. 248.

350 possible bastardy: On questions about "the timing of the conception of William Jefferson Blythe III," see Maraniss, First, p. 28.

350 "Inside my...": Kelley, Leading, p. xvii.

350 His best friend...: Carolyn Yeldell Staley in Maraniss, First, p. 41.

350 elusive relationship...: Morris, Partners, p. 50.

350 "threatened to...": Meredith L. Oakley, On the Make (Washington, 1994), p. 30.

350 "to maintain...": BC to Colonel Eugene J. Holmes, 3 Dec.1969, Maraniss, First, p. 202.

350 "I always...": BC in Vanity Fair, May 1992, p. 214.

351 "No makeup...": Kelley, Leading, p. 203.

351 "Hillary loves...": Vanity Fair, Feb. 1999, p. 171.

351 "peer marriage": Pepper Schwartz, Love Between Equals (New York, 1994), pp. 111, 17.

351 "The woman I...": Maraniss, First, p. 117.

351 "a room...": People, 25 Jan. 1993, p. 55.

351 "Nice is not...": Connell Cowan and Melvyn Kinder, Smart Women/Foolish Choices (New York, 1985), p. 97; Schwartz, Love, p. 15.

351 "I would like..." NYer, 30 May 1994, p. 62.

351 "This is fun...": Stewart, Blood, p. 70.

351 harsh father's...: See Morris, Partners, pp. 114-115.

351 "family, work...": AtCon, 31 May 1992, G7.

351 "He wasn't...": Vanity Fair, May 1992, p. 214.

351 "beginning to...": WasP, 10 Mar. 1992, E2.

351 "Smart Women": Cowan and Kinder, Smart Women, pp. 105, 133.

352 "You couldn't...": NYTM, 17 Jan. 1993, p. 26.

352 "If we...": Vanity Fair, May 1992, p. 217.

352 "If Bill Clinton...": Nwswk, 3 Feb. 1992, p. 22.

352 "My strong...": HRC, Village, p. 43.

352 "We are banking...": AtCon, 31 Jan 1992, A9.

352 Bill defined addressing...: Time, 20 July 1992, p. 20.

352 "the Establishment...": Vanity Fair, May 1992, p. 147.

352 "off the record": Mary Matalin and James Carville, All's Fair (New York, 1994), p. 298.

352 "HILLARY'S REVENGE...": Warner, Hillary, p. 188.

352 "If I get...": Ibid., p. 144.

353 "We care about...": People, 17 Feb. 1992, p. 43.

353 "a job": Harper's Bazaar, July 1992, p. 91.

353 "If the wife...": WasP Magazine, 1 Nov. 1992, p. 12.

353 "The Lady Macbeth...": American Spectator, Aug. 1992, p. 25.

353 "harsh....Put Hillary..." Celinda Lake and Stan Greenberg to Bill Clinton, 10 Mar. 1992 in Goldman, Quest 1992, p. 646.

353 "Oh, man, they...": Stephanopoulos, All Too Human, p. 94.

353 "the central..." Stan Greenberg, James Carville and Frank Greer to Bill Clinton, Mickey Cantor and David Wilhelm, 27April 1992, in Goldman, Quest 1992, pp. 664, 663.

353 "events where...": BosG, 4 Feb. 1996, p. 25

353 "Hi there...": WasT, 23 Aug. 1992, B3.

353 "What did...": Linda Bloodworth-Thomason in People, 20 July 1992, p. 78.

354 "more neutral..." Stan Greenberg to Bill Clinton, 7 June1992, in Quest 1992, p. 681.

354 "two for...": Glamour, Aug. 1992, p. 269.

354 "When we...": NYT, 8 June 1992, A15.

354 "We ought...": ChiT 14 July 1992, p. 12.

354 "On her own...": TNR, 22 June 1992, p. 42.

354 Only a quarter...: USNWR, 27 Apr. 1992, p. 34.

354 and 66 percent...: WasP Magazine, 1 Nov. 1992, p. 12.

354 "Republican Mother": Linda K. Kerber, Women of the Republic (Chapel Hill, 1980), p. 284.

354 "As far as...": WasP Magazine, 1 Nov 1992, p. 24.

354 "an attack...": TNR, 15 Feb. 1993, p. 6.

354 "all working...": People, 20 July 1992, p. 71

355 "carefully packaged commodity...": On commodification see Robert Westbrook "Politics as Consumption: Managing the Modern American Election," chap. 5 in Richard Wightman Fox and T.J. Jackson Lears, eds, The Culture of Consumption, (New York, 1983); on modern America's "show business discourse" see Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death (New York, 1985).

355 "sorcerer": Jackson Lears, Fables of Abundance (New York,1994), p. 75.

355 50 percent in...: George Gallup, The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion 1992 (Wilmington, DE, 1993), pp. 194-197.

356 "zone of privacy": Warner, Hillary, p. 171.

356 "I would be...": USNWR, 25 Jan. 1993, p. 46.

356 "Hillary": Time, 4 Jan. 1993, p. 37.

356 "principal domestic...": Haynes Johnson and David S. Broder, The System (Boston, 1996), p. 98.

356 "she's better...": NYT, 26 Jan. 1993, p. 1.

356 "run out...": Johnson and Broder, System, pp. 99, 98.

356 "more honest...": NYT, 27 Jan. 1993, A22.

356 "is not just..": Nwswk, 1 Feb. 1993, p. 38.

356 "The age...": LHJ, Apr. 1993, p. 146

356 "conversations with...": People, 10 May 1993, p. 83.

356 "Hillary's Merely...": Carl Anthony in WasP, 31 Jan. 1993, F1; Blanche Wiesen Cook in LAT, 17 Jan. 1993, M1.

356 "If you lived...": Redbook, Mar. 1993, p. 123.

357 Lisa Caputo said...: NYT, 14 Feb. 1993, p. 33.

357 63 percent of...: USNWR, 25 Jan. 1993, p. 50.

357 "the Dynamic Duo": Time, 4 Jan. 1993, p. 36.

357 "an empowered...": NYT, 8 Feb. 1993, A14.

357 "The voters...": TNR, 15 Feb. 1993, p. 6. The same poll found that only 43 percent of the men under 40 approved. AtCon, 21 Feb. 1993, F3.

357 Hillary could indulge...: Nwswk, 15 Jan. 1996, p. 22. See also NYer, 26 Feb. 1996 and 4 Mar. 1996, p. 125.

357 "press work...": Deposition of Margaret A. Williams, 20 July 1994 in U.S. Congress, Senate, Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, Depositions of White House Officials in Response to S. Res. 229, 103rd Cong., 2nd sess., 1994, 5:236-237.

357 "within one hundred...": Johnson and Broder, System, p. 100.

357 "After the meeting...": Paul Starr to Ira Magaziner, 7 Feb.1993, Box 3308, Clinton White House, Interdepartmental Working Group, National Archives, College Park, MD

358 "sweeping... would save...": Stephanopoulos, All Too Human, p. 198.

358 "I don't want...": AtCon, 21 Feb. 1993, F3.

358 "Do I want...": Johnson and Broder, System, p. 101.

358 "functional equivalent...": Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Inc. et al. v. Hillary Rodham Clinton, et al., 997 F.2d 898, 902, 904 (U.S. App. D.C. 22 June 1993).

358 "the First Lady, like...": Gregory S. Walden, On Best Behavior (Indianapolis, 1996), pp. 85, 87.

358 "Bill Clinton...": BosG, 26 Feb. 1993, p. 15.

358 "precipitat[ing] a...": American Physicians v. HRC, 813 F.Supp. 90 (D.D.C. 1993).

358 "the presidential...": American Physicians v. HRC, 997 F.2d905, 910-911. Eventually, in September, 1994, the White House opened 230 boxes of documents from the "working group" to end the litigation.

359 "Sooner or later...": BosG, 15 Mar. 1993, p. 13.

359 "What do...": Time, 10 May 1993, p. 33.

359 "If I didn't...": HRC to Julie Baldridge in Stewart, Blood, p. 91.

359 "Hillary's Alzheimer's...": LAT Magazine, 23 May 1993, p. 15.

359 many of the state...: American Spectator, Jan. 1994, p. 25.

359 "enemies list": Nwswk, 24 June 1996, p. 40

359 helped flood...: Ben J. Wattenberg, Values Matter Most (New York, 1995), pp. 247-248.

359 "left wing": WasT, 6 May 1993, G1.

359 "diversity jihad": USNWR, 25 Jan. 1993, p. 47.

359 "what is it...": People, 10 May 1993, p. 86.

360 "dauntingly homogeneous...": Suzanne Dixon, "Conclusion -- The Enduring Theme: Domineering Dowagers and Scheming Concubines," in Barbara Garlick, Suzanne Dixon, Pauline Allen, eds., Stereotypes of Women in Power (New York, 1992), p. 222.

360 "She's very...": BosG, 6 Apr. 1992, p. 14.

360 "of selfishness and...": HRC, 6 Apr. 1993 in Tikkun, May/June 1993, p. 8.

360 "new Reformation...": NYTM, 23 May 1993, p. 22.

360 "I wonder if...": Donnie Radcliffe, Hillary Rodham Clinton (New York, 1993), p. 62.

360 "There's a...": Life, 20 June 1969, p. 31. See also the Port Huron Statement on "American values," "American virtue," "making values explicit" and the search for "a meaning in life that is personally authentic." "Agenda for a Generation," in Robert D. Marcus and David Burner, eds., American Firsthand, 2 vols. (New York, 1989), 2:296-299.

360 "an issue...": Parade, 11 Apr. 1993, p. 4.

360 "Hillary Clinton -- mom...": People, 10 May 1993, p. 83. See also Time, 14 Jan. 1985, p. 24.

360 One poll would...: USNWR, 31 Jan. 1994, p. 46.

361 "search[ing] for consensus...: Magaziner to HRC in Johnson and Broder, System, p. 16.

361 "This is as...": NYT, 29 Sept. 1993, A18.

361 "here as a...": Ibid.

361 "it looks...": Lloyd R. George in Oakley, On the Make, p. 285.

361 "I think...": NYT, 29 Sept. 1993, A18.

361 "captivated and...": Ibid., A1.

361 "don't want...": People, 27 Dec. 1993/3 Jan. 1994, pp. 39, 44-45.

361 "We thought we...": Johnson and Broder, System, p. 256.

362 "human beings...": NYTM, 23 May 1993, p. 65.

362 "who does it all": BosG, 12 Dec. 1993, A6; Katha Politt in NYT, 3 Oct. 1993, 4:1.

362 "For women...": Harper's Bazaar, Jan. 1994, p. 39.

362 "I need to...": American Spectator, Jan. 1994, pp. 28, 22.

362 "I think I'm...": Elizabeth Drew, On the Edge (New York,1994), p. 384.

362 "I find...": BosG, 22 Dec. 1993, p. 12.

363 "media industry": Stephen L. Carter, Integrity (New York,1996), p. 95. See also Thomas E. Patterson, Out of Order (New York, 1993).

363 "sixties kids": Rush H. Limbaugh, III, See I Told You So (New York, 1993), p. 143.

363 "political talk...": James Fallows, Breaking the News (NewYork, 1996), pp. 92-93.

363 "That's what it...": Johnson and Broder, System, p. 277.

362 "Heil Hillary..." Ibid., p. 281; Nwswk, 15 Nov. 1993, p. 34; Nwswk, 1 Nov. 1993, p. 24.

363 Millions still built...: Lori D. Ginzberg, Women and the Work of Benevolence (New Haven, l990), p. 216.

364 "dangerous sexuality," Arlene W. Saxonhouse, "Introduction-- Public and Private: The Paradigm's Power," in Garlick et al., Stereotypes of Women, p. 7.

364 "feminine credentials..." Dixon, "Conclusion," pp. 215, 218.

364 "our gendered concept...": Guy, "Hillary and Gender Power," p. 254.

364 "The questions won't ...": Stephanopoulos, All Too Human, p. 227.

365 "doesn't want...": "Testimony of Roger Altman," 2 Aug. 1994, in U.S. Congress, Senate, Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, Hearings Relating to Madison Guaranty S & Land the Whitewater Development Corporation -- Washington, DC Phase, 103rd Cong., 2nd sess., 1994, 3:421.

365 "It's not...": 21 Mar. 1994, Nwswk, p. 35.

365 "had no role...": Neil Eggleston to GAO, 6 Apr. 1994, Draft Memorandum from David Watkins, undated, in Gregory S.Walden, "Recent Disclosures Regarding the First Lady," 11 Jan. 1996, Addendum to Walden, Behavior, pp. 1, 3.

365 "We need our...": NYT, 29 Feb. 1996, A21.

365 "It is the...": BosG, 3 Apr. 1994, p. 63.

365 "Hillary Rodham Nixon": AtCon, 11 Mar. 1994, A:16

365 "undo.... on this issue....": Stephanopoulos, All Too Human, pp. 226-228.

366 Cartoons of the...: Theda Skocpol, Boomerang (New York,1996), pp. 153, 151.

366 his approval rating...: Stewart, Blood, p. 418.

366 Hillary's unfavorability...: Nwswk, 21 Mar. 1994, p. 35.

366 54 percent...: LAT, 25 Jan. 1996, A1.

366 "Where do...": NYer, 26 Feb./4 Mar. 1996, p. 130.

367 "I do not...": AtCon, 11 Mar. 1994, A17.

367 "that there may...": Stewart, Blood, p. 420.

367 "embarrassing": "Press Conference By The First Lady," 22 Apr.1994, in U.S. Congress, Senate, Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, White House Document Production in Response to S. Res. 229, 103rd Cong., 2nd sess., 1994, 9:1590, 1587, 1588, 1591, 1596.

367 "unprecedented extraordinary...": WasP, 23 Apr. 1994, G1.

367 the 49 percent...: USA Today, 26 Apr. 1994, 4A.

368 Whenever I go out...": Stephanopoulos, All Too Human, p. 389.

368 "I just don't..." Hillary Clinton quoted by Dick Morris in Vanity Fair, Feb. 1999, p. 172.

368 "A good wife...": Esquire, Mar. 1994, p. 52.

368 "answer any...": CNN "Larry King Live," Interview with HRC, 20 May 1996. Transcript by Journal Graphics, Inc., pp. 8, 4, 7, 3.

369 "triangulating...": See Dick Morris, Behind the Oval Office (New York, 1997), pp. 79-105.

369 "still the most...": Stephanopoulos, All Too Human, p. 387.

369 "pragmatic and shrewd...": Morris, Oval Office, pp. 163, 300.

370 "Values Matter...": Wattenberg, Values, pp. 239-267

370 "The Good Father": Nwswk, 12 Feb. 1996, p. 32.

370 survey in June 1996...: Simon, Showtime, p. 284.

370 "It used to drive...": Michael Isikoff, Uncovering Clinton (New York, 1999), p. 66.

370 "felt that all ...": Roger Simon, Showtime (New York, 1988), p. 288.

370 "internal mantra...": Stephanopoulos, All Too Human, p. 415.

370 "My first...": USNWR, 27 Feb. 1995, p. 36.

371 "new Hillary": AtCon, 18 Feb. 1995, A7.

371 "No, she's...": BosG, 9 Mar. 1995, p. 20.

371 "family feminism": NYer, 26 Feb./Mar. 4 1996, p. 126.

371 "We need to...": HRC, "Remarks to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women," Beijing, China, 5 Sept. 1995, p.3, HRC Website, (http://www1.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/First_Lady/html/who.html).

371 "equal political...": GH, Jan. 1993, p. 99.

371 "choices...": HRC, "Remarks at Pentagon Celebration of Women's History Month," Washington, D.C., 1 Mar. 1995, pp.3-4, HRC Website.

371 "a lot of people...": Nwswk, 1 July 1996, p. 23.

371 "big government...": Nwswk, 16 Jan. 1995, p. 22.

371 "Bill and I...": Glamour, Aug. 1992, p. 269.

371 "the human dimensions...": NYDN, 23 July 1995, p. 2.

372 "corny": HRC, Evening Standard, 9 Oct. 1995, p. 12.

372 "has a talent...": NYT, 10 Aug. 1995, A19.

372 "This misguided...": ChiT, 3 Sept. 1995, 1:3

372 "may have been...": NYT, 6 Sept. 1995, A24.

372 "There was no...": BosG, 7 Sept. 1995, p. 24.

372 "Insofar as...": People, 25 Dec. 1995/1 Jan 1996, p. 112

372 "retired ... hundreds of women": BC to ML in Ken Starr, The Starr Report: The Evidence (New York, 1998), p. 113.

372 a provocatively dressed... See "Enablers and Enforcers: The Two White House Cultures," Time, 2 Feb. 1998, p. 24, 25.

372 "clutches": From the testimony of Evelyn Lieberman, The Starr Report, p. 64.

372 "intense flirting": Monica Lewinsky in The Starr Report, (New York, 1998), p. 49.

373 "shared commitment to...": National Family Week... FIND Nov 15, 1995

373 "congenital liar": NYT, 8 Jan. 1996, A27. See also, NYT 10 Jan. 1996, A11.

373 "Security Takes...": HRC, Village, p. 11.

373 "I can play...": Radcliffe, HRC, p. 35.

373 "When they...": HRC, Village, p. 153.

374 "every child...": Ibid., pp. 41, 50.

374 "One of the things...": Time, Dec. 28, 1998-Jan. 4, 1998, p. 70

374 "acceptable face...": Dixon, "Conclusion," p. 216.

374 "to have made...": John Brummett and HRC in Mother Jones, Nov./Dec. 1993, p. 37.

374 "my handsome husband": Rosie O'Donnell, NYT, 4 Feb. 1997, p. A14.

374 "on the same day...": NYT, 4 Feb. 1997, p. A14.

374 "Life in the...": The First Lady's Homepage, 7 July 1999, http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/First_Lady/html/issues.html

375 "Hogging the...": Simon, Showtime, p. 291.

375 "I think it's...": ABC, "20/20" Barbara Walters Joint Interview with Bill and Hillary Clinton, 20 September, 1996

375 "the balance of power...": Stephanopoulos, All Too Human, p.419.

375 "What good will you...": Morris, Oval Office, p. 300

375 "the basic values of...": Bill Clinton Statement, Office of the Press Secretary, The White House, 31 July 1996, p. 1.

375 "What the hell...": Morris, Oval Office, p. 333

376 "the repairer of the breach,": Isaiah 58:12; Inaugural Address of President William J. Clinton, 20 Jan. 1997, p. 4, http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/l2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1997/1/20/6.text.1

378 MSNBC's ratings...: Brill's Content, Aug. 1998, p. 134.

379 "What of the rule...": Henry Hyde, 19 Nov. 1998, Merrill McLoughlin, The Impeachment and Trial of President Clinton (New York, 1999), p. 4.

379 "our first black...": New Yorker, 5 Oct. 1998, p. 32.

380 "inappropriate": The Starr Report, p. 81.

380 "the nation's business,": NYT, 5 Nov. 1998 p.1.

380 "vast right wing conspiracy.": NBC, "Today Show," 27 Jan,1998.

380 "Two irreconcilable...": Time, Dec. 28, 1998-Jan. 4, 1998, p. 74.

381 "It was an extraordinary...": Vanity Fair, Jan. 1999, p. 39.

381 "I often refer to ...": George, Sept. 98, p. 54.

381 "At least we want to know that Hillary kicked his butt,":said Patricia Ireland of NOW -- who still supported Clinton politically, in Gabriel Fackre, Judgement Day at the White House (Grand Rapids, MI, 1999), p.

381 "a president's private ...": 3 Sept. 1998, Washingtonpost.com Special Report: Clinton Accused http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/clinton.htm

381 Vogue's Christmas issue: Vogue, Dec. 1998, cover.

381 "the most compelling...": 20 July 1998, Newsweek, p. 23.

381 "It's lucky for America...": Vanity Fair, Feb. 1999, p. 178.

382 "non-feminists...": New Yorker, Aug. 24 and 31, 1998, p. 50.

382 "single most degraded...": Time, Dec. 28, 1998-Jan. 4, 1998, p. 68.

382 "Even presidents have private lives...": BC, 17 Aug. 1998, in Gabriel Fakre, Judgement Day at the White House (Grand Rapids, MI, 1999), p. 184.

382 "Utter disaster...": Newsweek, 31 Aug. 1998, p. 4.

382 "Clinton is a cancer on ...": Andrew Sullivan, The New Republic, 14 and 21 Sept. 1998 in Fackre, Judgement Day, p. 176.

382 "intervention": Erskine Bowles in Vanity Fair, Feb. 99, p.177.

382 Clinton apologized...: Washington Post, 12 Sept. 1998, A1.

382 "failed human...": Senator Tom Harkin quoted by Shelby Steele in Wall Street Journal, 25 Sept. 1998, in Fackre, Judgement Day. p. 177.

382 "sex is the only subject...": Newsweek, 31 Aug. 1998, p. 47.

382 "Starr report poses...": Alan M. Dershowitz, Sexual McCarthyism (New York, 1998), p. 221.

383 "Thou Shalt Not Judge": See Alan Wolfe, One Nation After All (New York, 1998); George F. Will in Nwswk, 30 Aug. 1999, p. 68.

383 "the relevant virtues...": Reinhold Neibur, Moral Man and Immoral Society (New York, 1932), pp. xi-22, quoted by Betty Glad, "Evaluating Presidential Character," in Presidential Studies Quarterly 28 (Fall 1998):862.

383 Some called it "European," or "sophisticated"; others, hewing to the traditional integrated approach to truth and morality, called it "relativistic" and "decadent."

383 "Clinton fatigue": See William Safire, "On Language" in New York Times Magazine, 10 Oct. 99, pp. 30, 55.

383 Al Gore condemned...: NYT, 16 June, 1999, p. 1.

383 better at defense than at offense: See George C. Edwards, III. "Bill Clinton and His Crisis of Governance, "Stephen J. Wayne, "With Enemies Like This, Who Needs Friends," James MacGregor Burns, "Epilogue," p. 904, all in Presidential Studies Quarterly 28 (Fall 1998):758, 774, 904.

383 "vicarious role": George, Sept. 1998, p. 54.

383 "real person.": George, Sept. 1998, p. 54.

384 "Historians say Clinton...: Montreal Gazette, 8 July 1999, A14.

384 "I'm pretty good...": Nwswk, 30 Aug. 99, p. 4.

384 "He couldn't protect me...": Talk, Sept. 1999, p. 174.

384 a saint or a sinner...: Nwswk, 11 Apr. 1994, p. 24.

386 "Before we came here...: Vince Foster to Margaret Carlson, quoted in Christopher Andersen, Bill and Hillary: The Marriage (New York, 1999), p. 277.

386 "Why do I have to talk about things no one else in politics does?" Hillary Clinton whined, Talk, Sept. 1999, p. 173.

386 "the history of...": Time, 28 Dec. 1998- 4 Jan. 1998, p. 70.

386 "the Clinton paradox...": Stephanopoulos, All Too Human, p. 4.

387 twenty percent of...: See Frederic T. Smoller, Six O'Clock Presidency (New York, 1990), p. 45.

387 "the power to persuade": Richard Neustadt, Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents (New York, 1990), p. 28. See also Stephen Skowronek, The Politics Presidents Make (Cambridge,Mass., 1993); Samuel Kernell, Going Public (Washington, 1986); Howard Gardner, Leading Minds (New York, 1995), p. 9.

387 over three-quarters...: Skocpol, Boomerang, p. 109.

387 Yearning for...: Steven Mintz and Susan Kellogg, Domestic Revolutions (New York, 1988), p. 205; Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism, pp. 7-21.

388 where 96 percent...: Dennis A. Gilbert, Compendium of American Public Opinion (New York, 1988). pp. 303, 309.