Clinton, Inc.: The Audacious Rebuilding of a Political Machine (41 page)

 
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
, December 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.