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Article: Hillary parries the New York press.(Hillary Clinton)(Brief Article)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- January 24, 2000
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She was quick. And sure. And full of yuks. The big thaw after a months- long freeze. The TV audience loved her. Cranky funnyman David Letterman rolled over. Nothing like a joke to break the tension. But was it enough to get the rest of the Big Apple's tenacious press off her back? And New York voters on her side in the U.S. Senate race?
Hillary Rodham Clinton's appearance on the Late Show last week, scripted with the help of Letterman's writers, may have helped soothe mounting criticism that she lacks the stomach for rough-and-tumble New York politics. And she may have charmed TV's late-night grinch. (Actually, it was Letterman who had the bad week: On Friday, he ...