NPR: Clinton Campaign: Schedules Are Just A Guide

Clinton Campaign: Schedules Are Just A Guide

More than 11,000 pages were released today, showing what was on Hillary Clinton's agenda as First Lady. Clinton, now a Democratic candidate for president, has come under pressure to make her schedules as first lady public. The documents were released jointly by the National Archives and Clinton Presidential Library.

Clinton's campaign said the thousands of pages of schedules are just a guide, but do prove their point that Clinton tackled substantive issues like health care and Social Security as first lady, while also traveling the world.

One turbulent time for the Clinton White House was 1998, during President Clinton's impeachment. Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr testified at an impeachment hearing on November 19, 1998. Hillary Clinton wasn't in Washington that day. Her schedule had her in Guatemala, speaking to lawmakers and visiting Mayan ruins.

The schedules do offer a window into the details of White House planning. On January 18 1999, for example, the Martin Luther King Day of Service event was marked optional for the first lady. The president and vice president were expected to attend. What's more, the schedule instructed them to change into Americorps sweathshirts before walking in.

-- David Greene

1:53 PM ET | 03-19-2008 | permalink

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How can P. Schroeder say that? Would Hillary be where she is if she wasn't married to, oh, I don't know, someone special? And look what she had to do to gain that advantage! And why are Florida and Michigan again important, if it weren't the last vestige of a possibility that might let her get the nomination?
If she gets the nomination fair & square, I'll vote for her. But if she uses this kind of Clintonesque trick, I, and a lot of other Dems, will vote for John McCain. It is just like her to think she deserves it and can use any subterfuge to get it.

Sent by Mark Bergseid | 4:28 PM ET | 03-19-2008

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