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22. Mark Leibovich, “For a Blunt Biden, an Uneasy Supporting Role,” New York Times, May 7, 2012.
23. Dylan Stableford, “Biden on Gay Marriage: ‘Absolutely Comfortable with Men Marrying Men, Women Marrying Women,’ ” ABC News, May 6, 2012.
24. Rick Klein, “Obama: ‘I Think Same-Sex Couples Should Be Able to Get Married,’ ” ABC News, May 9, 2012, http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/obama-comes-out-i-think-same-sex-couples-should-be-able-to-get-married/.
25. Daniel Halper, “Obama on Biden: ‘Got Out a Little Bit over His Skis,’ ” Weekly Standard, May 10, 2012, https://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-biden-got-out-little-bit-over-his-skis_644325.html.
26. John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, Double Down: Game Change 2012 (New York: Penguin, 2013).
27. Kevin Cirilli, “David Plouffe: Hillary Clinton ‘Probably the Strongest’ for 2016,” Politico, March 18, 2013, http://www.politico.com/story/2013/03/hillary-clinton-2016-plouffe-88978.html.
28. Alex Roarty and Niraj Chokshi, “Axelrod: Hillary Clinton ‘First Among Equals’ for 2016 Nomination,” National Journal, December 13, 2012, http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/axelrod-hillary-clinton-first-among-equals-for-2016-nomination-20121213.
29. Jake Tapper and Sherisse Pham, “Rahm Emanuel: If Hillary Runs in 2016, I’m There,” CNN, October 30, 2013, http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2013/10/30/rahm-emanuel-nsa-obamacare-2016-hillary/.
30. Heather Ginsberg, “Obama Campaign Manager and Former Bill Clinton Aide to Head Hillary Clinton Project,” Townhall.com, November 13, 2012, http://townhall.com/tipsheet/heatherginsberg/2013/11/13/obama-campaign-manager-and-former-bill-clinton-aide-to-head-hillary-clinton-project-n1745947.
31. Maggie Haberman, “Hillary Clinton’s Answer to the Has-Been Charge,” Politico, July 8, 2013, http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/hillary-clinton-2016-93801.html.
32. “Press Briefing by Deputy Press Secretary Josh Earnest,” transcript, Whitehouse.gov, July 29, 2013, http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/video/2013/07/29/press-briefing-deputy-press-secretary-josh-earnest#transcript.
33. “Obama Awards Presidential Medals of Freedom,” transcript, CNN, November 20, 2013, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1311/20/cnr.06.html.
34. “Remarks by the President at the 50th Anniversary of the Presidential Medal of Freedom,” transcript, November 20, 2013, Whitehouse.gov, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/11/20/remarks-president-50th-anniversary-presidential-medal-freedom.
35. Earle Earle, White House Pool Report email to White House listserv, November 20, 2013.
36. Michael D. Shear, “Obama, George W. Bush and Hillary Clinton Share Flight to South Africa,” New York Times, December 10, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/11/world/africa/mandela-obama-bush-clinton.html.
9: Daddy’s Little Girl
1. Video of event available at http://www.bloomberg.com/video/bill-clinton-urges-white-house-to-do-more-in-syria-51D3W1X_SHud6NKNxlO_3w.html.
2. Ibid.
3. See, e.g., Jeffrey Lord, “Bill Clinton and the Reagan Consensus,” American Spectator, June 7, 2012.
4. Hillary Clinton, It Takes a Village (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003)
5. Lloyd Grove, “Chelsea’s Morning,” New York, February 24, 2008, http://nymag.com/nymag/rss/politics/44454/.
6. Jim Frederick, “Q&A With Chelsea Clinton,” Time, September 26, 2012, http://ideas.time.com/2012/09/26/q-a-with-chelsea-clinton/.
7. Ibid.
8. Tony Freemantle, “Bush, Clinton Form Unlikely Bond on Tsunami Tour,” Houston Chronicle, March 7, 2005, http://www.chron.com/news/nation-world/article/Bush-Clinton-form-unlikely-bond-on-tsunami-tour-1931175.php.
9. James P. Steyer, Talking Back to Facebook: The Common Sense Guide to Raising Kids in the Digital Age (New York: Scribner, 2012), p. xii.
10. Todd S. Purdum, “Chelsea Clinton, Still a Closed Book,” New York Times, June 17, 2001, http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/17/us/chelsea-clinton-still-a-closed-book.html.
11. Ibid.
12. Taylor Branch, The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009), p. 601.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid., p. 496.
18. Ronda Kaysen, “Power Punk: Chelsea Clinton,” New York Observer, December 15, 2013, http://observer.com/2003/12/power-punk-chelsea-clinton/.
19. Stuart Jeffries, “The Firm,” Guardian, February 21, 2003, http://www.theguardian.com/education/2003/feb/21/mbas.highereducation.
20. “Chelsea Clinton Joins New York Hedge Fund,” Reuters, November 3, 2006, http://www.nbcnews.com/id/15549672/ns/business-us_business/t/chelsea-clinton-joins-new-york-hedge-fund/.
21. Profile of Marc Lasry, Forbes, http://www.forbes.com/profile/marc-lasry/.
22. Frederick, “Q&A with Chelsea Clinton.”
23. Ibid.
24. Clip of event posted on YouTube, October 11, 2012, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r71NjJFjdV0.
25. “Chelsea’s Exes,” Daily Beast, http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2010/07/26/chelsea-s-exes.html#slide2.
26. “Chelsea’s Exes,” Daily Beast, http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2010/07/26/chelsea-s-exes.html#slide4.
27. Noel Sheppard, “Chelsea Clinton Interviews . . . the GEICO Gecko?” Newsbusters.org, April 27, 2013, http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2013/04/27/chelsea-clinton-interviewsthe-geico-gecko.
28. Michael Hastings, “Chelsea Clinton, TV’s Dork Diva, Struggles at NBC,” BuzzFeed, April 16, 2012, http://www.buzzfeed.com/mhastings/chelsea-clinton-tvs-dork-diva-struggles-at-nb.
29. Sara Stewart, “Love After the Storm,” New York Post, July 15, 2010, http://nypost.com/2010/07/15/love-after-the-storm/.
30. Joseph Rhee and Drew Sandholm, “Will Father of the Groom Be Welcome Figure at Chelsea Clinton’s Wedding?” ABC News, December 1, 2009, http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/father-groom-figure-chelsea-clintons-wedding/story?id=9211229.
31. Bob Shrum, No Excuses: Confessions of a Serial Campaigner (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007).
32. “Senior Advisors,” TeneoHoldings.com, http://www.teneoholdings.com/senior-advisor/.
33. Alec MacGillis, “Scandal at Clinton Inc.: How Doug Band Drove a Wedge Through a Political Dynasty,” New Republic, September 22, 2013, http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114790/how-doug-band-drove-wedge-through-clinton-dynasty.
34. Ibid.
35. Ibid.
36. Ibid.
37. Ibid.
38. Ibid.
39. Catherine Herridge, “ ‘Revolving Door’? Ties Between Consultancy, Gov’t Raise Questions about Benghazi Probe,” Fox News, March 24, 2014, http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/03/24/revolving-door-ties-between-consultancy-govt-raise-questions-about-benghazi/.
40. Michael Shnayerson, “The Follieri Charade,” Vanity Fair, October 2008, http://www.vanityfair.com/style/features/2008/10/follieri200810.
41. MacGillis, “Scandal at Clinton Inc.”
42. “FoundationSearch,” Metasoft Systems, January 2014, http://www.foundationsearch.com/.
43. Ibid.
44. Ibid.
45. Ibid.
46. MacGillis, “Scandal at Clinton Inc.”
10: Chasing Hillary
1. Christopher Wills, “Obama’s Thin, but Varied Record,” Associated Press, January 16, 2008, http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/politics/2008-01-16-2414012588_x.htm.
2. This Week, transcript, ABC News, August 11, 2013, http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/week-transcript-lon-snowden-donald-trump/story?id=19926953&page=6.
3. Jim Galloway, “Hearsay from Hillary Clinton: On Joe Biden and the Osama bin Laden Raid,” Atlanta Journal-Constitution, October 15, 2013, http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/political-insider/2013/oct/15/hearsay-hillary-clinton-theres-more-life-slim-jims/.
4. Mark Z. Barabak, “Jerry Brown, Urged to Run for President, Won’t Rule Out 2016 Bid,” Los Angeles Times, Decemb
er 17, 2013, http://articles.latimes.com/2013/dec/17/news/la-pn-jerry-brown-president-2016-20131217.
5. Jane C. Timm, “RNC, DNC Narrow Crosshairs on Hillary, Christie,” MSNBC, December 5, 2013, http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/gop-focusing-clinton.
6. Amy Chozick and Bill Carter, “CNN and NBC Scrap Projects on Hillary Clinton,” New York Times, September 30, 2013.
7. Charles Ferguson, “Why I Am Cancelling My Documentary on Hillary Clinton,” Huffington Post, September 30, 2013, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-ferguson/hillary-clinton-documentary_b_4014792.html.
8. Stephen Dinan, “Rand Paul Demands Dems Return Money Raised by ‘Sexual Predator’ Bill Clinton,” Washington Times, February 7, 2014, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/feb/7/rand-paul-demands-democrats-return-money-raised-se/.
9. Alana Goodman, “The Hillary Papers,” Washington Free Beacon, February 9, 2014, http://freebeacon.com/politics/the-hillary-papers/.
10. Christopher Hitchens, No One Left to Lie To (New York: Verso, 1999), p. 114–16.
11. Sheryl Stolberg, “Clinton Due Back at White House Today,” Los Angeles Times, March 16, 1997, http://articles.latimes.com/1997-03-16/news/mn-39035_1_white-house.
12. Richard H. Curtiss, “Report of Israeli Eavesdropping on White House Telephones Gets Varying Media Treatment,” Washington Report, July 2000.
13. David Johnston, “Israeli Spy Inquiry Finds Nothing, Officials Say,” Associated Press, May 6, 2000, http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/06/us/israeli-spy-inquiry-finds-nothing-officials-say.html.
14. James Risen and Steven Erlanger, “C.I.A. Chief Vowed to Quit if Clinton Freed Israeli Spy,” New York Times, November 11, 1998, http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/11/world/cia-chief-vowed-to-quit-if-clinton-freed-israeli-spy.html.
15. Ibid.
16. Jorge Ramos, “Bill Clinton Interviewed by Jorge Ramos [Full Transcript],” December 3, 2013, Fusion, http://fusion.net/america_with_jorge_ramos/story/bill-clinton-interviewed-jorge-ramos-full-transcript-278503.
17. R. W. Apple Jr., “The Capital Spotlight; Anguished Words from Dead Clinton Aide Make Washington Think About Its Values,” New York Times, August 13, 1993, http://www.nytimes.com/1993/08/13/us/capital-spotlight-anguished-words-dead-clinton-aide-make-washington-think-about.html.
18. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living History (New York: Scribner, 2004), p. 506.
11: The Road to Coronation
1. Maggie Haberman, “Hillary Clinton’s Shadow Campaign,” Politico, January 5, 2014, http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=F9AE51A4-3E0D-4604-B08F-2E63DE4F600A.
2. Rick Klein, “In Secret Letter, Senate Democratic Women Rally Behind Hillary Clinton,” ABC News, October 30, 2013, http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/10/in-secret-letter-senate-democratic-women-rally-behind-hillary-clinton/.
3. “N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo: Hillary Clinton No Bearing on 2016 Thinking,” Associated Press, April 29, 2013, http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/andrew-cuomo-hillary-clinton-2016-90742.html.
4. Frederick U. Dicker, “If Hillary Is Running for Prez, I’m Out,” New York Post, April 29, 2013, http://nypost.com/2013/04/29/if-hillary-is-running-for-prez-im-out/.
5. “Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton,” Clintonfoundation.org, accessed June 2013, http://www.clintonfoundation.org/about/secretary-hillary-rodham-clinton.
6. Jim Rutenberg and Amy Chozick, “In Hamptons Again, Clintons Get to Work on Their Vacation,” New York Times, August 22, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/23/nyregion/back-in-hamptons-clintons-get-to-work-on-their-vacation.html.
7. Amy Chozick and Jonathan Martin, “Eye on 2016, Clintons Rebuild Bond with Blacks,” New York Times, November 30, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/01/us/politics/eye-on-2016-clintons-rebuild-bond-with-blacks.html.
8. Jonathan Karl, “Book Review: ‘HRC’ by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes,” Wall Street Journal, February 10, 2014, http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303496804579367234288377144.
9. Jonathan Allen and Ben Smith, “Anthony Weiner: Hackers Posted Lewd Photos on Twitter,” Politico, May 28, 2011, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/55877.html.
10. Ibid.
11. Jonathan Karl, Jake Tapper, and Devin Dwyer, “Anthony Weiner Announces Resignation from Congress,” ABC News, June 16, 2011, http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/anthony-weiner-resign-huma-abedin-return/story?id=13855468.
12. Maggie Haberman, John Bresnahan, and Glenn Thrush, “Huma Abedin Allowed to Represent Clients While at State,” Politico, May 16, 2013, http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/huma-abedin-consultant-state-91503.html.
13. Mara Gay and Michael Howard Saul, “Mayor Bloomberg Stoic at de Blasio Inauguration,” Wall Street Journal, January 1, 2014, http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303870704579294843755086018.
14. “2014 New York City Inauguration,” video posted by NYC Mayor’s Office, January 1, 2014, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvqfn3RYc9U.
Index
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Note: The abbreviations CVC, HRC, and WJC stand for Chelsea Victoria Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and William Jefferson Clinton respectively.
A
Abdullah ibn Abdilaziz (Saudi crown prince), 29–30
Abedin, Huma, xvii, 43–47, 76, 165, 211, 231, 235, 279–83
Adams, John Quincy, 58
Affleck, Ben, 224
Afghanistan, 68, 111–12, 157–58, 160–62, 205, 243
African Americans, as voting bloc, 274–75
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, 175
Air Force One, 34–35, 40, 93–97, 212
“Air Fuck One,” 55–56
alcohol/alcohol abuse
having Irish wake, 163
rumors of HRC problems, xii
WJC stepfather abuse, 109
Alito, Samuel, 63
All Too Human: A Political Education (Stephanopoulos), xx
Allen, Jonathan, xiv, 279
Allen, Michael, 231
Alliance for a Healthier Generation, 233
All’s Fair (Carville and Matalin), 51
Alper, Jill, 261
al-Qaeda, 43–44, 181–82, 187–88
America Rising (PAC), 245
American Heart Association, 233
American Prospect (magazine), 132
American Spectator (magazine), 72
anti-gay joke, 85
anti-Israeli actions. See Israel/Israeli relations
anti-Semitism, 83–84
Arafat, Suha, 18, 20
Arafat, Yasser, 20, 252
Assange, Julian, 164
Atlantic (magazine), 131–32
Avenue Capital (hedge fund), 220
Awlaki, Anwar al-, 44
Axelrod, David, 149, 150, 162, 199, 207, 283
B
Back to Work (Clinton), 177
Baker, Charlie, 261
Baker, Peter, 64, 142
Ballmer, Steve, 167
Band, Douglas J.
2008 presidential campaign, 139–40
beginning as White House intern, 56
body man to WJC, 56–58
creation of Teneo, 227–31
keeping “enemies list,” 149
mismanagement of CGI, xxi–xxii, 233–34
sexual boasts, 85
Bandar bin Sultan (Saudi prince), 29–30
Banks, Ernie, 211
Barnett, Bob, 21
Bash, Jeremy, 231
Bayh, Evan, 151
Bazell, Robert (Dr.), xiii
Beacon Global Strategies, 231
Begala, Paul, xvii, 51, 142, 183, 207–8, 263, 278
Benghazi terrorist attack
defining issues, 187–88
HRC testimony, xii, 185–87
impact on 2012 election, 199–200
impact on 2016 election, 188–90, 244
Obama response, 181–85
ongoing investigation, 231
Bera, Ami, 185
Berger, Sandy, 30
Betty Ford Center, 55
Biden, Jill, 211, 242
Biden, Joe
2008 presidential campaign, 114, 151–53
2016 presidential aspirations, 191–92, 204, 239–42
dealing with Obama-HRC relationship, 192–95
nomination as vice president, 150–51
relationship with Obama, 201–11
Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Foundation. See Clinton Foundation
Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport (Little Rock), 264
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, 59
Bill Clinton Presidential Park Bridge, 226
“Bill Clinton’s Lost Legacy” (CBS News), 141
bin Laden, Osama, 182, 241
Bird, Jeremy, 208
birther conspiracy, 165
Black, Allida, 263
Blair, Diane, 10, 13–14, 249
Blair, Tony, 230
“Blizzard of Lies” (Safire), 9–10
Bloomberg (news agency), xiv, 50, 279, 282–85
Bloomberg, Michael, 20, 283–84
Blumenthal, Sidney, 47, 134, 165
Blythe, William, Sr., 109
Bond, Rich, 100
Branch, Taylor, 14, 219
Braswell, Almon Glenn, 36
Brazile, Donna, 240, 263, 278
Breitbart, Andrew, 279
The Bridges of Madison County (Waller), 13–14
Brock, David, 49, 130, 133–34, 248
Brown, Jerry, 244
Brownback, Sam, 65
Buchanan, Pat, 129
Buddy (WJC dog), 12–13, 82
Buffett, Warren, 83
Burkle, Ron, xxi, 55–56, 135
Burton, Dan, 65, 66, 256
Bush, Barbara, 100, 109–11
Bush, Dorothy (Doro), 100
Bush, Dorothy Walker, 92
Bush, George H. W.
1992 reelection defeat, 99–100
Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, 106
meeting CVC, 217
post-presidential life, 58
relationship with WJC, 107
tsunami relief efforts, 90–91
Bush, George W.
2000 election, 24, 32–33, 101–3, 261
2004 reelection, 62
2008 support of McCain, 205