Hillary Clinton’s Unusual Biography

A biography of Hillary Clinton, written by Gail Sheehy and published in late 1999, stated that Mrs. Clinton had refused to talk to the president for eight months after the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke. She resumed talking to her husband only when she phoned him and urged him in the strongest terms to begin bombing Serbia; the president began bombing within 24 hours. Alexander Cockburn observed in the Los Angeles Times,

A humorous screenshot of a text passage claiming that Hillary Clinton stopped speaking to her husband Bill Clinton after the Monica Lewinsky scandal, then resumed contact to urge him to bomb Serbia. The punchline is the absurd contrast between a personal marital dispute and a major military decision, framing Hillary as the real power behind the president’s actions.

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