Posted on 3/1/2014, 2:22:39 PM by mandaladon
Aides in former President Bill Clinton's White House crafted a strategy to "humanize" then-first lady Hillary Clinton and work around her "aversion" to the national media, according to documents released on Friday.
The documents also detailed the first lady's struggles in the early 1990s with her healthcare task force, including worries about resistance on Capitol Hill and an aide's warning the plan could not meet a pledge to allow patients to pick their doctors, a promise that also came back to haunt President Barack Obama.
The release of nearly 4,000 pages of previously sealed documents by the Clinton Presidential Library served to revisit Hillary Clinton's record and early struggles with her image as she gears up for a potential 2016 run for the presidency. The documents had previously been withheld from the public under a legal authority that expired last year.
The documents shed light on efforts to overcome the perception that the first lady was aloof and calculating, detailing her attempts to win positive press coverage around the time she gave a speech at a U.N. conference in China in 1995 and ahead of her successful run for the U.S. Senate in 2000. An August 31, 1995, memo by Clinton's press secretary Lisa Caputo suggested she do interviews with "regional media."
"Hillary is comfortable with the local reporters and enjoys speaking with them," the memo states. "This will help us get around her aversion to the national Washington media and serve to counter the tone of the national media."
The memo recommended a "Hillaryland Staff Outreach to Media" and urged Clinton aides to "socialize more" with reporters.
"I believe it would create enormous good will for Hillary since we can all tell wonderful Hillary anecdotes that humanize her and show the press the good person that she is,"
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It didn’t work.
Waiting for the documents related to Fosters death
dissect her to first see if she is human.
LOL!
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE.
Have you seen the latest pic of her on Drudge?She looks like she could do us all a favor soon.
Bill doesn’t really even like her!
They named a TV Program after Hillary’s humanization... “The Walking Dead”. I think she is a “Walker”
No but ill definitely look. Did you see the article about the brain tumor?
The Progressives/Marxists have been salivating over Universal Health Care since the days of Teddy Roosevelt. It is a basic tenet of Marxist political philosophy
Well, they did a pretty good job. She almost does look human.
That’s her “granny getup”
I’m sure William Jefferson Webster “Lil Bubba” Clinton-Mezvinsky will be timed to arrive for maximum campaign benefit.
Must have taken it down
It was tried in the 1930s as depicted in Bride of Frankenstein. And we know how that ended.
Humanize???
I tried for years to ‘humanize’ my ex.
No go. She, just like shrillary, are ANIMALS.
Sorta like trying to humanize a komodo dragon.
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