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Article: In Politics No One Can Hear You Scream.(Hillary Clinton remains strong in the face of scandal)
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- Esquire
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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Hillary Clinton's terrible sounds
Never before, in all our history, have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me, and I welcome their hatred.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt, Madison Square Garden campaign rally, 1936
HILLARY CLINTON was relentless. For a moment it was almost shocking: to see and hear someone speak so plainly, without cant, without bending words into euphemisms, putting it all on the line. That was how it seemed--if only for a moment. The country was up for grabs. So was its ability--or its will--to talk real talk, to talk to itself.
It was one evening this ...