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Posted at 2:30 pm on August 8, 2019 by Elizabeth Vaughn
In July 2018, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sat for an interview with NYU clinical associate professor, Timothy Naftali, at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, CA. This was part of “An Oral History of Richard Nixon” project. (The interview can be viewed here.)
The sit-down received very little attention at the time, but was recently republished. I found the transcript to be both surprising and interesting. (And I am not a fan of the former First Lady…at all.)
Considering the difficulty Clinton has had in coming to terms with her bitter loss to President Trump, I did not anticipate the sober message she is conveying to House Democrats. Her cautious tone was unexpected.
In a nutshell, her message was to, “steer clear of politics, don’t hold press conferences and avoid leaks.”
She did not mention President Trump. She discussed her experience working for the House Judiciary Committee as a young lawyer during the debates among members over whether or not to impeach then-President Nixon. She had been one of the recent law school graduates who had been hand-picked by John Doar, the Committee’s lead impeachment staffer. Doar was a “Republican who had served as a civil rights chief during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.”