The Truth About Hillary by Edward Klein Page A
Authors: Edward Klein
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specialist in Califor- nia. They had been trying for quite a while without any success. “But a month or so after our conversation [and after their trip to Bermuda], Hillary got pregnant. And the thing that shocked Billy was that he literally fell in love with his daughter. He was absolutely nuts about that child. But Hillary didn’t have the mothering instincts, and she couldn’t wait to dump this kid
with a nanny and get back to work.
“And Billy was concerned about Chelsea, because he didn’t think that Hillary was much of a mother. And he asked me, ‘What can I do for my daughter?’
“ ‘Spend time with her and be a good dad,’ I told him. “ ‘What’s the most important thing I can do?’
“And I said, ‘Billy, unfortunately the most important thing you can do for your child is honor and respect her mother.’ ”
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All the Governor’s Women
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fter Chelsea’s birth in February 1980, Hillary de-
voted less time to Bill and his political career.
Now, in addition to a baby girl at home, she had a demanding job as a partner at the Rose Law Firm, and commit- ments to various liberal do-gooder groups—such as the Chil- dren’s Defense Fund and the Legal Services Corporation—which required that she travel outside the state every few weeks.
Bill—ever the needy narcissist—felt abandoned. He was overwhelmed by self-pity and resentment, and he compensated for these feelings by running after women—often in plain sight of his wife.
“At times,” wrote Joyce Milton, “he flirted outrageously with women in front of Hillary, and even in front of the women’s hus- bands. Moreover, now that he was Governor, Clinton had an es- cort of state troopers wherever he went, and he would regale them with lewd comments about the attributes of any attractive woman who happened to cross his path and occasionally ask the
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troopers to get the phone numbers of good-looking women he spotted at political rallies.” 1
“He had two levels of women: smart peers who he could tell were having trouble with their spouses, and of course the babes,” said Nancy “Peach” Pietrefesa, 2 an ardent feminist who had been Hillary’s best friend during her senior year at Wellesley, and who, after moving to Little Rock, was rumored to be Hil- lary’s lesbian lover. 3
“He knows human nature so well, he knows how to lay that little ‘test’ on a woman. Handfuls of women had their feelings hurt. Clinton would come on to them and then be distracted or interrupted. When he came back, he’d look at the same woman like he didn’t know who she was.
“He was fucking a married woman in the bushes in the sum- mer of 1980,” Peach continued. “He’d go jogging and meet her. She was a former campaign volunteer who wasn’t getting along with her husband. Bill would come home and talk about her to Hillary: ‘Don’t you think she’s fabulous? She is such an incredi- ble . . .’ Hillary knew what he was doing and got pissed.” 4
Their marriage was on the rocks.
“One Saturday morning a friend stopped by the house and found [Bill] in the den, playing on the floor with Chelsea,” wrote David Maraniss. “Rodham was in the kitchen. As he smiled and laughed with his one-year-old daughter, Clinton sang softly in the lilt of a gentle lullaby, but loud enough for the guest to hear: ‘I want a div-or-or-or-or-orce. I want a div-or-or-orce.’ ” 5
As governor, Bill was under constant media scrutiny, but he didn’t allow that to put a crimp in his style.
“Bill was like a kid with a new toy that first term,” a friend told Connie Bruck, a writer for The New Yorker . “The perks, the Mansion, having the most powerful people in the state paying court to you. And he always had a weakness for bleached blondes
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with big jewelry, in short skirts, their figures shown off to best advantage.” 6
He grew careless and sloppy
with a nanny and get back to work.
“And Billy was concerned about Chelsea, because he didn’t think that Hillary was much of a mother. And he asked me, ‘What can I do for my daughter?’
“ ‘Spend time with her and be a good dad,’ I told him. “ ‘What’s the most important thing I can do?’
“And I said, ‘Billy, unfortunately the most important thing you can do for your child is honor and respect her mother.’ ”
C H A P T E R F O U R T E E N
All the Governor’s Women
A
fter Chelsea’s birth in February 1980, Hillary de-
voted less time to Bill and his political career.
Now, in addition to a baby girl at home, she had a demanding job as a partner at the Rose Law Firm, and commit- ments to various liberal do-gooder groups—such as the Chil- dren’s Defense Fund and the Legal Services Corporation—which required that she travel outside the state every few weeks.
Bill—ever the needy narcissist—felt abandoned. He was overwhelmed by self-pity and resentment, and he compensated for these feelings by running after women—often in plain sight of his wife.
“At times,” wrote Joyce Milton, “he flirted outrageously with women in front of Hillary, and even in front of the women’s hus- bands. Moreover, now that he was Governor, Clinton had an es- cort of state troopers wherever he went, and he would regale them with lewd comments about the attributes of any attractive woman who happened to cross his path and occasionally ask the
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troopers to get the phone numbers of good-looking women he spotted at political rallies.” 1
“He had two levels of women: smart peers who he could tell were having trouble with their spouses, and of course the babes,” said Nancy “Peach” Pietrefesa, 2 an ardent feminist who had been Hillary’s best friend during her senior year at Wellesley, and who, after moving to Little Rock, was rumored to be Hil- lary’s lesbian lover. 3
“He knows human nature so well, he knows how to lay that little ‘test’ on a woman. Handfuls of women had their feelings hurt. Clinton would come on to them and then be distracted or interrupted. When he came back, he’d look at the same woman like he didn’t know who she was.
“He was fucking a married woman in the bushes in the sum- mer of 1980,” Peach continued. “He’d go jogging and meet her. She was a former campaign volunteer who wasn’t getting along with her husband. Bill would come home and talk about her to Hillary: ‘Don’t you think she’s fabulous? She is such an incredi- ble . . .’ Hillary knew what he was doing and got pissed.” 4
Their marriage was on the rocks.
“One Saturday morning a friend stopped by the house and found [Bill] in the den, playing on the floor with Chelsea,” wrote David Maraniss. “Rodham was in the kitchen. As he smiled and laughed with his one-year-old daughter, Clinton sang softly in the lilt of a gentle lullaby, but loud enough for the guest to hear: ‘I want a div-or-or-or-or-orce. I want a div-or-or-orce.’ ” 5
As governor, Bill was under constant media scrutiny, but he didn’t allow that to put a crimp in his style.
“Bill was like a kid with a new toy that first term,” a friend told Connie Bruck, a writer for The New Yorker . “The perks, the Mansion, having the most powerful people in the state paying court to you. And he always had a weakness for bleached blondes
All the Gover nor’ s Women 95
with big jewelry, in short skirts, their figures shown off to best advantage.” 6
He grew careless and sloppy
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