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Article: HILLARY CLINTON, TRAILBLAZER GIVE HER CREDIT FOR MAKING IT OK FOR WHITE HOUSE SPOUSE TO HAVE AN OPINION.(Editorial)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- August 2, 2000
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How slowly we learn, how quickly we forget.
Was it not a mere eight years ago that a certain presidential candidate's wife was getting unmitigated grief for suggesting that, should her husband win the White House, she might borrow his bully pulpit from time to time for some sermonizing of her own?
Wasn't that when all the ``who-elected-her?'' business took off? And the chronic harrumphing over the couple's ``two-for-the-price-of-one'' offer? By the same token, hadn't it been around forever that wives have influenced their husbands - something we all seem to believe and accept but something we tend to throw a hissy fit over anytime the little fact slips ...