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Hillary Clinton makes a great deal of her experience as First Lady, suggesting that the eight years she spent in the White house constitute an ideal training programme for the Presidency. Where Hillary was not actively involved in making decisions, she had the opportunity to see how the White House operates in good times and bad. Those lessons, she says, have been digested.
Doubtless there is something to this, even if it’s not he traditional apprenticeship. But how are we to know how Hillary the First Lady would translate to President Hillary?
Returning to her book Living History is not quite as helpful as it might be. You’ll recall that this book was written for Hillary as an important part of her pre-campaign strategy. It was designed to clear the air and draw a line under the impeachment years and her husband’s infidelity.
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