During a stop in Nepal while on a south Asian goodwill tour in April 1995, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton engaged in a brief (and reportedly coincidental) meeting with Sir Edmund Hillary (who, along with Tenzing Norgay, became the first person to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, Mt. Everest, in 1953) and told reporters she had been named after the famed mountain climber. The notion that Ms. Clinton's given name was inspired by the man who conquered Everest was almost certainly a bit of fiction invented for political expediency (as many critics have noted, Edmund Hillary didn't become world-famous until six years after Hillary Rodham was born)....Sir Edmund Hillary was a rather obscure beekeeper in New Zealand when HRC was born.
Mrs Clinton says she could hardly breathe.
"Gulping for air, I started crying and yelling at him, 'What do you mean? What are you saying? Why did you lie to me?'
"I was furious and getting more so by the second