Hillary Clinton First Lady

During Bill Clinton's presidency, Hillary initially played an important role. Immediately after his inauguration in 1993, she led a task force to create a national health care system. The secrecy of the Task Force was at issue in court cases which resulted in disclosures to comply with the law.

Her friend Vince Foster supervised the defense of the litigation, but died under mysterious circumstances at the height of the controversy; the death was ruled a suicide by the U.S Park Service. The Task Force proposals lacked public support and support from the Democrats in Congress, and came to nothing but an embarrassment for the Clinton presidency.

Subsequently, the Republicans won a landslide victory in 1994, taking over both Houses of Congress.

Healthcare task force scandals

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Hillary was asked by her husband to play a central role in secretly crafting a plan to overhaul Health Care. Joe Klein. author of Primary Colors, the fawning rendition of the phenomena of Clintonism on the 1992 campaign trail remarked,

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Bill Clinton really believed that if anybody was going to come up with the answer to the most vexing public policy problem out there, it was going to be Hillary. It was one of the stupidest political decisions that Bill Clinton ever made.

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Democrats were divided, and conservatives counterattacked. The Democratically controlled Congress refused to even vote on it, given its unpopularity and having to publicly take a stand in support of the Clintons before the 1994 Midterm Elections.

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), along with several other groups, filed a lawsuit over closed-door meetings related to the HillaryCare. The AAPS sued to gain access to the list of members of the task force which the Clinton administration had kept secret from the public. On June 14, 1993 the Washington Times reported Hillary's task force records were being shredded.

Along with the failed task force's membership being sealed from the public, so was its budget, accounting, and spending authority. Hillary's task force was given a budget of $100,000. In secret, it spent almost $14 million.

The long-term impact was an embarrassment to Hillary, especially in her 2008 presidential campaign.

Waco massacre

Among the hard choices this advocate of children and women's rights had to make was giving the go-ahead to extinguish the lives of 17 children and 68 adults, the majority of which were women and minorities in the Waco massacre, a colossal bureaucratic blunder that needed quick resolution in her husbands first term. Vince Foster transmitted the order from Hillary Clinton to Webster Hubbell at the Justice Department who presented it to Attorney General Janet Reno. Foster, distraught over the results of his involvement, committed suicide.

Timothy McVeigh visited the Waco gravesite of the children and adults which included several inter-racial couples. Outraged at the lawlessness of a government that now threatened Second Amendment rights, McVeigh made a personal decision to follow the same path of lawlessness. Under interrogation McVeigh cited the Waco massacre as his motivation for the Oklahoma City bombing. Hillary Clinton and the Clinton surrogates seized on the tragedy to attack their opponents. Ronald Reagan, Newt Gingrich, Bob Dole, Rush Limbaugh and any Republican, Libertarian, or Conservative who advocated smaller government and government accountability, or opposed any Clinton initiative, was labeled by the Clinton attack machine and mainstream media surrogates as a right-wing anti-government racist and extremist. The immediate official statements made it clear groups, not individual actors, were being targeted. In the end, the Oklahoma City bombing was the work of a lone wolf - Timothy McVeigh. But the Clinton attack machine divided the country, slandering and impugning the integrity of millions of innocent Americans in its aftermath. Bill Clinton later was to say the Oklahoma City bombing spin saved his presidency and successfully insured his re-election.

Evidence tampering and obstruction of investigation charges

After the death of White House staffer Vince Foster, 20 year Secret Service veteran Henry O' Neill testified before Congress he observed as Hillary Clinton's chief of staff, Margaret Williams, carry boxes of papers out of Foster's office and up to the White House residence quarters on First Lady Hillary Clinton's instructions. The documents related to the Clinton's blind trust and White House real estate investments. Under oath, Hillary Clinton denied issuing the instructions or receiving the documents. The documents were now considered evidence in the investigation of the death of Vince Foster.

Two years later, some of the documents were retrieved from the private White House quarters. FBI investigators determined Hillary Clinton's fingerprints were on the documents.

Hillary's enemies list and conspiracy theories

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Hillary made a pointed reference to "a vast right-wing conspiracy" as being responsible for her husbands infidelity and the myriad scandals which have plagued the Clintons since their early days in Arkansas.

Main article: Vast right wing conspiracy theory

Hillary Clinton branded opponents of the Administration and critics of the Clinton's scandalous lifestyles as "a vast right-wing conspiracy." White House staffers made up an enemies list of persons and organizations who subsequently endured IRS audits and harassment.

Infidelity and attacks on opponents

Although Hillary Clinton told CBS's Steve Kroft in an interview on 60 Minutes to address her husband's infidelity, Clinton emphatically stated,

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I'm not sitting here — some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette.

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Clinton likewise mocked stay-at-home-moms for baking cookies while she was employed at a "high powered" law firm making more money than her husband. She was lauded by liberal media and pundits as "a strong woman."

In the end, when confronted with the infidelity of her husband, she blamed "a vast right-wing conspiracy" and stood by her man.

'Why didn’t you leave the White House when you found out about the cheating of your husband?' Gaddafi's daughter Aisha Gaddafi.

Accusations of stolen gifts

After 8 years when the Clinton's left the White House, allegations were finally reported that had been made the first week they had entered the White House in January of 1993.

A new president receives congratulatory gifts from other Heads of State. Under the law, of coarse, these are not the property of William Jefferson Clinton nor Hillary Rodham Clinton, as they cannot legally accept bribes, gifts, and gratuities for serving as President or First Lady. The gifts are the property of the institution of the Office of the President, the United States Government. Legal experts and graduates of Ivy League Law schools, with the exception of possibly two, are in complete agreement on this point.

There is no accounting for millions of dollars of unappraised gifts received after Bill Clinton's first inauguration. Civil Service employees were instructed not to itemize the gifts, complete the requisite cataloging, inventory and appraisal forms, and insure delivery to the White House Gift Office. Those who refused to comply were eased out of their positions, fired, and slandered in media accounts.