I was a junior in college. I clearly remember Hillary’s Wellesley speech, dissing African American Massachusetts Senator Burke. It was reported at that time that she discarded her prepared speech to lay into him. I also remember the Life Magazine coverage of her. (I didn’t subscribe to Newsweek until the next year.) I felt at the time she had received considerable coverage. Marian Wright Edelman, according to Hillary’s own account, taught her that everything’s “for the children.”
The media would like to have the failed Bar exam hippie have gravity and be a major player but she was still someone detested by her superiors on the watergate work she tried.
She failed as a First Lady. She rode free in the Senate with zilch accomplished. She failed in a run against an unknown. She sold the office of Sec State on an I imagined scale.