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===Six: Survival Plan===
 
===Six: Survival Plan===

Revision as of 23:27, 23 April 2012

The First Partner: Hillary Rodham Clinton was written by Joyce Milton and published by HarperCollins in 1999.

Reaction

The Washington Post said: "The First Partner...is well-written and may be the single best compendium of every charge of malfeasance, true or false, that's ever been hurled at the Clintons."[1]

In a Booklist Review, Mary Carroll said: "...Milton is more interested in dishing dirt than in understanding her subject; here, she adopts a "gotcha" tone, whether the issue is Clinton's alleged bossiness in high school or her Arkansas real-estate deals."[2]

In National Review, Dick Morris said: "The chief lesson here is that there is very little about Mrs. Clinton that she will not either change or modify as the situation requires. We can expect a new "new Hillary Clinton" soon."[3]

Chapter summaries

One: The First Victim

Topics discussed
Notable events
Notable quotes
  • "[T]he former spokesperson for the 1960s, which prided itself on exposing hypocrisy and 'telling it like it is,' was now admired by many of her peers for her ability to close her mind to unpleasant realities." (pg. 10)[4]

Two: Rugged Individualist

Topics discussed
  • childhood
  • family
  • school
Notable events
Notable quotes
  • "'Children are not rugged individualists.' This is the first sentence of Hillary Rodham Clinton's book It Takes a Village, and it's a startling one because Hillary Rodham was a rugged individualist as a child." (pg. 11)[4]
  • "'I always felt Hillary thought she knew what was best, and that's what everybody should do.'" (pg. 19)[4]

Three: The Art of the Impossible

Topics discussed
  • Undergrad studies at Wellesley
  • Studies at Yale Law
  • Meeting & dating Bill
  • Campaigning for child's empowerment & destruction of nuclear family
  • Work on Nixon impeachment
Notable events
Notable quotes
  • "[T]he most notable feature of Hillary's Wellesley career was her tendency to befriend students who were destined for success in later life." (pg. 28)[4]
  • "'Hillary is stuck in a bit of a time warp. She has not learned as I think I have the power of the market.'" (pg. 37)[4]
  • "[Hillary] advocated liberating our 'child citizens' from the 'empire of the father.' (pg. 59)[4]
  • "With hindsight, the most interesting thing about Hillary's views is her assumption that all dependency relationships are bad–––except the dependence of the individual on the state." (pg. 60)[4]
  • "Hillary 'paid no attention to the way the Constitution works in this country, the way politics works, the way Congress works, the way legal safeguards are set up.'" (pg. 66)[4]

Four: The Yankee Girlfriend

Topics discussed
  • Move to Arkansas
  • Bill's failed House race
  • wedding
  • Bill's successful 1976 Attorney General race
Notable events
Notable quotes
  • "Hillary realized if she married Bill, she would be the one responsible for their financial security for the foreseeable future. This seemed to bother her more than his womanizing, or perhaps they were part of the same problem." (pg. 85)[4]

Five: First in Her Firm

Topics discussed
  • Hillary joins Rose Law Firm
  • Bill wins 1978 Arkansas gubernatorial race
  • Hillary's sketchy commodities trading stint
  • Hillary's pregnancy
  • Taxpayers billed for Clintons' personal expenses
  • Clintons cheating on taxes
Notable events
Notable quotes
  • "Undoubtedly, Hillary was often lonely. She had no close friends in town, social events in Little Rock were invariably organized for couples, and the problem, recalls Hubbell, was that 'of course Bill was never around.'" (p. 93)
  • "Unable to control her husband's behavior, Hillary concentrated on taking care of the family finances." (p. 95)

Six: Survival Plan

Seven: A Woman of Many Projects

Eight: The Gary Hart Factor

Nine: Everyone Has a List

Ten: The Transition That Wasn't

Eleven: Reclaiming America

Twelve: A Box with No Windows

Thirteen: Lawyering Up

Fourteen: From the White House to Your House

Fifteen: China Syndrome

Sixteen: The Making of an Icon

Epilogue: The Half-Life of a First Lady

See also

References

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  1. From front cover of "First Perennial" edition
  2. Booklist review on Amazon (under "Editorial Reviews")
  3. Dick Morris review on Barnes & Noble (under "Editorial Reviews")
  4. Jump up to: 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 Milton, Joyce. The First Partner: Hillary Rodham Clinton. New York: Perennial, 2000.