Future presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in her 60's poured her heart out in a letter.

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Future presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in her 60's poured her heart out in a letter.

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In the ’60s, a Future Candidate Poured Her Heart Out in Letters
By MARK LEIBOVICH


WASHINGTON, July 28 — They were high school friends from Park Ridge, Ill., both high achievers headed East to college. John Peavoy was a bookish film buff bound for Princeton, Hillary Rodham a driven, civic-minded Republican going off to Wellesley. They were not especially close, but they found each other smart and interesting and said they would try to keep in touch.


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Hillary Rodham in 1969.

 
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John Peavoy, now an English professor at Scripps College, holding some of the letters from Hillary Rodham.

Hillary Rodham Clinton who became famous while Mr. Peavoy has lived out his life in contented obscurity as an English professor at Scripps College, a small women’s school in Southern California where he has taught since 1977. Every bit the wild-haired academic, with big silver glasses tucked behind bushy gray sideburns, he lives with his wife, Frances McConnel, and their cat, Lulu, in a one-story house cluttered with movies, books and boxes — one of which contains a trove of letters from an old friend who has since become one of the most cautious and analyzed politicians in America.

When contacted about the letters, Mr. Peavoy allowed The New York Times to read and copy them.

The Clinton campaign declined to comment.

The letters were written during a period when the future Mrs. Clinton was undergoing a period of profound political transformation, from the “Goldwater girl” who shared her father’s conservative outlook to a liberal antiwar activist.

In her early letters, Ms. Rodham refers to her involvement with the Young Republicans, a legacy of her upbringing. In October of her freshman year, she dismisses the local chapter as “so inept,” which she says she might be able to leverage to her own benefit. “I figure that I may be able to work things my own way by the time I’m a junior so I’m going to stick to it,” she writes.

Still, the letters reveal a fast-eroding allegiance to the party of her childhood. She ridicules a trip she had taken to a Young Republicans convention as “a farce that would have done Oscar Wilde credit.” By the summer of 1967, Ms. Rodham — writing from her parents’ vacation home in Lake Winola, Pa. — begins referring to Republicans as “they” rather than “we.”

“That’s no Freudian slip,” she adds. A few months later, she would be volunteering on Senator Eugene McCarthy’s antiwar presidential campaign in New Hampshire. By the time she delivered her commencement address at Wellesley in 1969, she was citing her generation’s “indispensable task of criticizing and constructive protest.”

But in many ways her letters are more revealing about her search for her own sense of self.

“Can you be a misanthrope and still love or enjoy some individuals?” Ms. Rodham wrote in an April 1967 letter. “How about a compassionate misanthrope?”

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Guys, maybe they (high profile presidential candidates, presidents, congressmen, etc) are humans after all. They're not the reptilian shapeshifters from underground that you would imagine. They had a human history..., and some have quite documentable stories.



(I'm sorry. I can't resist).

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I meant the 60's, not "her 60's" on the post title.

Also, the picture from the previous post doesn't show because they don't allow hot-linking. I didn't know that until my browser temp cleared up, and then the picture didn't show up.

Here's the link to see the picture of Bill Clinton and Hillary in their early ears:
http://www.freerepublic.com/images/freep...ton-vi.jpg

[Richard]

I don’t recall if anyone ever claimed Hilary was a shapeshifter. Anyway having a history doesn’t prove anything one way or another. Why wouldn’t a shapeshifter have a history? They all have a history of living here. They just didn’t appear out of thin air one day.

[ShadowRunner]

"I don’t recall if anyone ever claimed Hilary was a shapeshifter. Anyway having a history doesn’t prove anything one way or another. Why wouldn’t a shapeshifter have a history? They all have a history of living here. They just didn’t appear out of thin air one day."

Of course they all have a 'front'(like the mafia) how else could they garner support from the masses? They all also have "MPD". They have many 'sides' to them.

High level masons believe they need to balance their evil deeds with equal good deeds.

Hillary is no saint, she is involved deeper into the matrix then most can comprehend.

Some of her real history is documented in 'Transformation of America' it's quite a opposite lifestyle then the american pie bullshit you are fed.

[William]

Shadowrunner, very well said!  :)

[Lathrop Wells]

Oh my! My first time on this forum and I finally found out that it is populated by a few rational individuals that comprehend that this person is a shedevil.
If this "experiment" in self government can not find some one to honestly lead us forward into the 21st century,whose name is neither Bush or Clinton, them we deserve the fate we will end up with.I always sit and ponder if 1 or more of the 65,000 who died in Southeast Asia would have been the great leaders we have not had at any level in our government in the past generation or two.