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Hillary Clinton spent the night in the White House on the day of her husband’s fateful assignation with Monica Lewinsky, and may have actually been inside the building when it occurred, according to records of her daily schedule as First Lady released yesterday.
The 17,481 pages of Mrs Clinton’s schedule were released by the National Archives, in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed nearly a year ago by Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog.
The former First Lady’s schedule for February 28, 1997, the day that Ms Lewinsky’s blue dress became stained in an encounter with Mr Clinton, shows that his wife held several meetings in the White House that morning, and spent the night there.
Mr Clinton’s encounter with Ms Lewinsky took place in an Oval Office bathroom in the early evening. Chris Farrell, director of research at Judicial Watch, said that the Clintons had used every means possible to delay the release of the documents, and that another 20,000 pages of material were yet to be made public.
More importantly, he told The Times, Mrs Clinton’s phone records as First Lady — potentially far more revealing about her activities — have yet to be made public.
More than two million documents relating to Mrs Clinton’s work on her doomed healthcare plan in her husband’s first White House term have yet to be released and are the subject of another lawsuit. The archives said that 4,746 of the pages released yesterday had been partly redacted, mostly to protect the privacy of third parties.
Papers on five days will not be released because they could not be located, the archives added. The documents appear to do little to bolster Mrs Clinton’s claim that her White House years make her more qualified to be president than Mr Obama. The release came as Mrs Clinton’s hopes of forcing fresh contests in Michigan and Florida after their nullified January primaries appeared doomed, a significant setback to her hopes of winning the Democratic presidential nomination.
Mrs Clinton held a rally in Michigan in a last-ditch attempt to get a re-vote in the state. Her appearance came a day after Florida Democrats officially dropped plans for a new vote there. Last night prospects for a fresh contest in Michigan appeared doomed after a lack of votes in the state legislature to back the plan.
Mrs Clinton called on Mr Obama to back re-votes, saying that a failure to do so was “wrong, and frankly un-American”. Her aides argued that angering Democratic voters in the two states could help Republicans in the general election. New polls show John McCain, the Republican nominee, with leads over both Mr Obama and Mrs Clinton.
Florida and Michigan were stripped of their delegates for violating party rules by moving their primaries up the nominating calendar. Mrs Clinton and Mr Obama did not campaign in either state, and Mr Obama’s name was not on the Michigan ballot. Mrs Clinton won both states but the results were nullified.
Because it is virtually impossible for Mrs Clinton to overtake Mr Obama in elected delegates in the ten remaining contests, a central part of her strategy was to force re-votes in Florida and Michigan. Fresh, ratified victories in both, her aides believe, would provide “game-changing” wins that could sway unelected super-delegates her way.
Mrs Clinton was also desperate for new contests because without them, it is virtually impossible to overtake Mr Obama’s lead in the popular vote. The former First Lady hopes that a popular vote win will provide a powerful case for why superdelegates should give her the nomination.
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What difference does it make NOW what happened and who was where 10 years ago! It is over and done with and now it is time to move forward with NOW!! How ironic all this pops up NOW during the election. Let's keep with the issues and the IMPORTANT things!!
jackie, marietta, usa
If America is so racist...as I believe it is .it will manifest itself not from The Obama campaign but from The Clintons. I cannot understand if you mix two races together, who decides which race the person is. is it the dominant color that prevail. If Obama looked like a white man and He was running for president with the same ideas how would everyone else look at it...especially the press. After this campaign I think Universities will have to restructure there curriculum and teaching on ethical behavior and moral thinking of people who decide to be reporters. What happened to the message. There are so much more important things that reporters could go after when it comes to the campaign. i cannot understand why Saddam Hussein had to be killed. What did that accomplish? There are so many things that may have been able to be learned after a period of time after the trial. That is what the press should have challenged. We are so Pro this and Pro that but when it comes to Pro Life. What?
Simon, Dangriga, Belize
Why in the hell can't the media publish the whole text of Ref Wright's speaches? Is there no fairness in the system? Or does the system condem anyone who tries to help black people. Leave the man alone, he has retired. Further more, if Obama had enough power to control the thoughts of Wright, he shold be elected. We need some one of that power.
B. Hogan, Brenham, Texas
I was frankly shocked at Rev. Wrights comments, but glad the truth came out now. Sounds a little like the Klan in reverse was what he was projecting!
jttexas
Joe, Midland, Midland/TX
No matter what the controversy is I CANT'T SEE OBAMA AS OUR LEADER
AMERICA BE AWARE IT WILL GET WORSE.
And I'm Democratic.......
Vickie, Albuq, New Mexico
Wow........Betty of St Paul has really got it bad.
I do get the impression that HRC is a grasping, nasty piece of work........just my opinion. At least Bill had some charm. She's just charmless.
Phil, Preston,
Obama has been destroyed by Clinton, white America will never vote for him after the Rev. Wright controversy. Hillary has sunk the dems by her relentless gutter politics against Obama because she will never win the general. Get ready to be in Iraq for the next 100 years because McClain will slaughter Hillary or a tarnished Obama.
gilesjp, Michigan, USA
I have always thought it strange that someone who wanted health care for all the citizens got blasted, but by the same token, it was all right to waste trillions on invading other countries, with the ongoing death and destruction that brought..
margie, victoria, australia
I am watching what is taking place in the United States very carefully. I have two words for HRC...Vince Foster.
Vidya Maharaj, Chaguanas, Trinidad
Lets see Obama's records as well to see who is more qualified.
Typical witchhunt that has gotten the media as well as the Judical Watch no where for over the past 16 years. Give up!
carol, bellevue, NE
Hillary's experience: co-governor, co-president, co-dependent, senator, and co-candidate.
No choice at all. Hillary-Bill's third term. McCain-Bush's third term.
Need an American President, not a democrate or republican.
Obama is my choice. I believe the world agrees.
Mendel Peterson, Sandy, Utah, USA
It isnt Hillarys fault that BO is in hot water he brought it all upon himself by using his own judgement in his associations
Hillary didnt put the words in wrights mouth nor did she make MO say the stupid things she has said
Why do BO supporters blame the Clintons for BOs self inflicted wounds?
Are you claiming that BO&MO are so pure that all of this has been made up about them??
So she supports a re vote in MIch and he doesnt- thats a fact
Why would he be so afraid of revotes-- because the country has become more and more aware of his true self and his
free ride has come to an end
If states had a revote right now he would not be where he is
and he knows it
He knows Mich and Fl would not be in his favor any more than most other states at this point
His website links to the Black panthers????
Thats really somethng to broadcast as your supporters
Mich and FL have one person to blame at this point for their votes being kept silent and that is Obama
Bos opinion of don Imus?
Betty, st paul, USA MN
It's odd when HRC says non-support for a redo in Michigan is "un-American." It's true only if America believes in unfair, unmanageable elections, which it doesn't.
Michigan does not register voters using party affiliation, so a big stumbling block is how to control the redo without allowing every registered voter in Michigan the opportunity to vote. Doing so would render the results meaningless.
Terry Miller, Elk Rapids, USA/MI
Anybody who doesn't give Hillary her way is "wrong, and frankly, un-American"
How dare you?
Amy Hasslacher, Washington, DC, USA
Hillary's behavior has increasingly become Republican in nature. The reason that she will not have my vote is because I am a Democrat, and therefore hold Democratic ideals to high standards. Not even the Republican nominees have disparaged each other as Hillary has done to Barack. I sincerely hope that the will of the voters will not be trumped by Senator Clinton''s power-hungry motives.
Anna, San Francisco, CA, US