Posted on 01/01/2002 8:49:12 AM PST by classygreeneyedblonde
They held their tongues for the last nine years while New York Sen. Hillary Clinton was at the center of the media spotlight. But in the last month two of the former first lady's old boyfriends have begun to speak out.
Shoe salesman Don Wasley recalls that Mrs. Clinton had a major crush on him during their junior high school days together in Park Ridge, Ill, telling the New York Daily News that the political superstar still manages to keep in touch with him via an ocassional letter.
He's kept one Mrs. Clinton's missives framed on his wall; the one she wrote after he reminded her of the T-shirt she used to wear bearing his name.
"Someday we will be able to renew our friendship," wrote Wasley, after Hillary told one White House interviewer that he was "the cutest boy in the eighth grade."
Unlike the California shoe salesman, Chicagoan Rick Biesada isn't likely to be hearing from the former first lady anytime soon. Especially after the chapter he included on their chance meeting in 1967 in his new book, "Angry White Male and the Horse He Rode in On."
It was at the Trip Lounge on the Windy City's Northwest side, the ex-Marine claims, where Hillary and the rest of the Rodham clan descended while enroute from a wedding one night in June.
Biesada's description of their two-day whirlwind courtship paints a dramatically different picture of the supposedly stern Methodist over achiever whom classmates once nicknamed "Sister Frigidaire."
And then there's his account of a what seems like a thoroughly dysfunctional Rodham family - which more closely resembles the hard-partying Arkansas clan into which Hillary would eventually marry than suggested by earlier Clinton biographers.
Biesada even claims to have shared Bloody Marys with the former first lady's dad one bleary-eyed Sunday morning, before the young couple went their separate ways.
Other aspects of Biesada's Hillary story are not for the politically squeamish, but the curious can learn more at www.1stbooks.com.
If he'd given her a black pants-suit, she'd still be wearing it.
Seems kinda one-sided, doesn't it?
Where's Janet? Donna?
They said it, I didn't.
Thanks for only posting a link rather than the picture.
That woman never was,isnt now,and never will be a beauty!
It appears to run in the family!
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