FLASHBACK:
Hillary Clinton Tells How She Handles Bullies
THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE - July 17, 1992
Author: Associated Press
Hillary Clinton yesterday recalled her childhood as a target of neighborhood bullies and warned a women’s group against being intimidated as they campaign for their goals.
``We’re not going to be sucker- punched as long as we make it clear we’re not going to take it anymore,’’ Mrs. Clinton told members of the National Women’s Political Caucus.
In turn, her audience called her by a name that has surfaced at the Democratic National Convention — ``first woman’’ — signaling hope that she will be the one to lead the women’s movement into the White House.
In her most feminist-sounding speech since the start of convention week, Mrs. Clinton urged caucus members to follow the advice her mother gave her when she was 4 years old.
``Every day, my mother would dress me up and send me outside to play,’’ Hillary Clinton recalled, ``and every day, someone would beat me up. I began to develop the sense a lot of women get — why go out and get slammed again?’’
But her mother, Dorothy Rodham, had other ideas.
``One day, I got beat up and I started to come right back in the house,’’ she said. ``My mother met me at the door and said, `There’s no room for cowards in this house. Go back out.’ She told me later her knees were shaking and she watched from behind the curtains when I went back outside.’’
But Mrs. Clinton said that once women learn to ``get up every day and go right back out,’’ they can accomplish whatever they want.
Texas Governor Ann Richards told the caucus: ``We are going to have a first woman in the White House.’’ She exhorted women to work toward that goal ``as if your life depended on it, which it does.’’
Mrs. Clinton assured the group that Bill Clinton and his running mate, Al Gore, are candidates who believe ``women’s issues are everyone’s issues.’’
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THE REAL HILLARY SHE’S TOUGH, SHE’S DRIVEN, SHE’S ONE OF A KIND
The Buffalo News - October 5, 1993
Author: LOUISE CONTINELLI - News Staff Reporter
Hillary Rodham Clinton doesn’t lose sleep over the few
detractors who object to her big role in the president’s new health care plan.
Early on, Hillary Rodham learned a lesson in how to deal with the world. At age 4, she ran sobbing to her mother after being socked by a neighborhood bully .
“The next time she hits you,” ordered her mother, “I want you to hit her back.”
Pow! Hillary hammered the bully — “to the astonishment of young male onlookers,” notes biographer Donnie Radcliffe — and triumphantly returned to her mother, having discovered the value of standing up for oneself and not backing down.
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First Lady’s Biographers Pounce on Tale of Bully
Chicago Sun-Times - December 5, 1993
Author: Lynn Sweet
WASHINGTON A Park Ridge bully named Suzy, once pummelled by little Hillary Rodham, is making her way into the new biographies of the first lady - and it may help explain why the president’s wife is such a formidable force today.
The little-known story of Suzy, who no doubt has grown up to become a lobbyist for health insurance companies, goes something like this:
Four-year-old Hillary moves from 5722 N. Winthrop in Chicago to Park Ridge. Suzy, the neighborhood bully , beats up Hillary . Dorothy Rodham tells her daughter to fight back. Hillary slugs Suzy, thus emerging forever empowered and psychologically ready to later redefine the role of presidential wife.
Suzy made her debut in Gail Sheehy’s May, 1992, Vanity Fair profile on HillaryClinton during the heat of the presidential campaign (it became Hillary Rodham Clinton after the election).
The article drew attention for HillaryClinton ‘s indiscreet comments on accusations that George Bush may have had an affair - but there was scant notice to the Suzy story told by Dorothy Rodham.
Young “beribboned” Hillary was “sheltered” and “regularly decked” by Suzy, wrote Sheehy, who continued the tale:
“There’s no room in this house for cowards,” Hillary ‘s mother announced one day. “You’re going to have to stand up to her. The next time she hits you, I want you to hit her back.”
Later, relates Sheehy, “ Hillary threw out her fist, knocking Suzy off her pins.” Hillary then announced, “I can play with the boys now!”
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``Every day, my mother would dress me up and send me outside to play,’’ Hillary Clinton recalled, ``and every day, someone would beat me up....
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Thanks. I had never seen that one. Every day someone would beat her up, huh? Just when I think that I have heard her biggest whopper, there’s one in front of me to match or top it. Now, however, thanks only to their love of BHO, some in the press are actually questioning some of her lies.
Is it true that little Suzy is buried in Ft Marcy Park?