Clinton’s First Lady Schedules Released
Tuesday: Hillary Clinton, winks to the crowd as she makes a campaign stop at Millersville University in Millersville, Pa. (AP Photo)
Journalists, bloggers and political activists were poring through more than 11,000 pages of former first lady Hillary Clinton’s schedules on Wednesday, looking for clues that may reveal her role in the White House during her husband’s administration.
Released by the National Archives, the records detail meetings, ceremonies, speaking engagements and travel. They are expected to offer some insight into whether the Democratic presidential candidate can accurately claim executive experience from her eight years as first lady.
“The schedules do help illustrate Hillary Clinton’s extensive and exhaustive work as a public servant and her role as an influential advocate at home and around the world on behalf of our country. As such, they are a valuable addition to the substantive and vast public record already made available by President Clinton,” reads a statement issued by Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign after the document drop.
A cursory perusal of the records, released on CDs and posted on the William J. Clinton Presidential Library Web site, found that in the early days of the Clinton administration, then-first lady Hillary Clinton held several meetings on health care with Cabinet secretaries and staff.
Click here to view the schedules on the Clinton Library Web site
In July of that same year, Clinton was traveling when her Arkansas law partner and friend, Vince Foster, was found dead in the early morning hours at Fort Marcy Park in Northern Virginia with a bullet through his mouth. The death of Foster, a deputy White House counsel, was later ruled a suicide. On that day, Clinton was in Los Angeles for a live TV show, then a 15-minute radio show interview, the schedules show.
It is unclear when Clinton learned about Foster’s death. In Gail Sheehy’s book, “Hillary’s Choice,” the author notes “That same day, phone records show a flurry of calls between Hillary in Little Rock, Susan Thomases in New York and Maggie Williams in Washington.”
(Williams was a senior aide to Clinton at the time and is currently her campaign manager. Thomases was a close friend and New York attorney who had previously worked with Clinton at the Children’s Defense Fund.)
On another significant day in the Clinton White House — Jan. 4, 1996 — the first lady held private meetings in the White House residence with Williams and the her chief of staff, Patti Solis Doyle.
Jan. 4, 1996, is the day Carolyn Huber, the Clintons’ director of personal correspondence, discovered billing records in the “book room” on the third floor of the White House residence that had been subpoenaed by Kenneth Starr more than two years earlier. Access to this room, according to The Washington Post, “is generally limited to the first family.”
The 116-page document, which Huber testified before the Senate Whitewater Committee had been located on a table in the middle of the room, consisted of Hillary Clinton’s bills for her legal work for the Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan, a key account of Clinton’s while she was a partner of the Rose Law Firm in Arkansas.
A review of the period in January 1998 surrounding the disclosure of the Monica Lewinsky affair reflects no disruption in Clinton’s schedule. It appears from these scheduling documents that she carried on her usual regimen of awards ceremonies and other activities.
The chronological schedules were kept by Doyle, the former chief of staff who was responsible for tracking all of Clinton’s contacts and activities throughout the White House years. Doyle served as Clinton’s campaign manager over the past year, but was replaced by Williams after Clinton’s Feb. 5 Super Tuesday primary stalemate with Barack Obama.
Judicial Watch, the legal watchdog group that sued to see the schedules, is hoping the information will reveal some of Clinton’s early contacts as head of the National Task Force on Health Care Reform, a Cabinet-level group appointed by Bill Clinton days after his 1993 inauguration. The watchdog group has sued to have telephone logs and meeting notes released.
Of the 2,888 days that Clinton was in the White House, archivists say they can not find 27 days of schedules. Of the 11,046 pages available, 4,746 have been blacked out, primarily to protect privacy details of guests, including Social Security numbers, telephone numbers and home addresses, the National Archives said.
FOX News’ James Rosen and Trish Turner contributed to this report.
what a mess these Canidates have made of this election what utter Garbage is coming from these People making the USA a laughing stock! thanks mil
The lessor of two evils…? (1) Obama going to church with his family and listening to a radical sermon or (2) The Clinton’s going to Easter church service before Billy Boy has oral sex with Monica later that day at the White House? Billy Boy’s long-time philandering was known by Hillary for years. She was and is the worst kind of enabler! The Clintons could care less about our country…it is all about them. A big NO vote for Hillary!
2 Things the Clinton campaign fails to understand………..
1) We are not going to keep voting over and over until you win…………..
2) My vote along with many, many others is for Obama or McCain not you…………….
To the person that thinks that Hillary reviewed the documents. Let me tell you, that when you make a request under FOIA (Freedom of Information Act), it is the government, in this case the federal archives who did the redact. In fact, it was reported on Fox, I believe, that the Mrs. Clinton asked to have more of what was redacted (not by her) made public. She had no control over it. Stop with the insults. How much longer can we be doing this? This is old news.
The issue with the Obama/Wright is that it shocked Americans how much divisiveness is the AA community. It is time that move forward. For many decades now, this country has moved in the right direction for all groups - people with disabilities, gender orientation, etc. The AA community wants to hold themselves down, want to play the race card…while the rest of the world moves forward.
Ok, here’s the truth. Many of these reporters just hate Obama, you can see it in their face, they love this. They want to try anything they can to make Obama look like some kind of monster. They want to talk about … Why didn’t Obama confront him 20 years ago? I just have to laugh because you can see STUPID all over them. First let me say, The clips the pastor did those comments were after 2003, after the terrorist, so they cannot try to say that he is like this every Sunday. I believe the pastor was bothered by 9/11 in his own world and said those comments. It’s nothing I approve, but you cannot say Obama knew about this 20 years ago. The media take the sound-bites and create a monster, that’s what they do. They don’t want to talk about the good things he’s done, because that is bad news to them. But what bothers me is that, it looked like they just don’t want Obama to win, so they want to make Obama the racist, I half White and Half Black person. I laugh at this. They don’t want to tallk about all the crimes the Clintons committed back in the days. Well now you here them talk a little about White Water because they blacked it out on the docs they released. But what about the rest, the things they don’t want you to hear. Well guess what, they finished the movie on Hillary Clinton and its released, showing crime on tape, and all the proof you need on Hillary Clinton. Here is the full video. The one the media is SCARED to talk about!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8464923602139974671&q=hillary+the+movie&pr=goog-sl
This is what America needs to know, watch the video and you be the judge!
kings,
I believe the most recent one is that he wasn’t in church when the pastor spouted his hatred. But, now because there is proof out there, he admits that he was.