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In 1989 (just three years before he ran for the White House promising a “twofer” presidency with his wife) Bill Clinton was so smitten with Jenkins that he seriously considered asking for a divorce, according to a proof of Bernstein’s Hillary Rodham Clinton biography “A Woman in Charge.”
Jenkins, an Arkansas-bred divorced marketing executive, “was Hillary’s worst nightmare: an attractive, accomplished, rich antagonist with whom Bill believed himself to be in love. He wanted to end his marriage. Hillary refused,” writes the former Washington Post reporter, citing former Bill Clinton confidant Betsey Wright and other unnamed aides as sources.
It paints an especially vivid and disturbing picture of the senator’s father Hugh Rodham, describing him as a sour, abusive husband who exaggerated his accomplishments and withheld affection from his family.
Bernstein was given access to the diaries of Hillary Clinton’s best Arkansas friend, Diane Kincaid Blair, who died of lung cancer in 2000. Blair said Hillary Clinton, apparently distraught over the Jenkins affair, confided her concerns about how a divorce would affect daughter Chelsea.
Yet just three years later, during the 1992 presidential campaign, it was Hillary Clinton who led the political counterattack against Flowers, who had gone public with charges of adultery involving the Arkansas governor.
The first lady oversaw a team of campaign operatives that hired a private investigator to discredit Flowers “until she is destroyed,” according to another Clinton biography soon to be released by Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta.