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NewsMax.com
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> Monday, Jan. 22, 2001 12:18 p.m. EST
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> Ex-First Lady Hillary Keeps No-Eye-Contact Rule
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> She may no longer be first lady. But even as a senator, Hillary
> Clinton is apparently determined to keep her royal distance from us
> commoners.
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> A leading conservative columnist has now corroborated earlier
> reports of Mrs. Clinton’s reluctance to make eye contact with her
> associates - and reveals that the behavior is ongoing. In October
> NewsMax.com cited a report from WABC Talk Radio’s Steve
> Malzberg, who said a friend at another New York radio station
> claimed that when Hillary dropped by for an interview, strict orders
> were issued.
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> “No one is to make eye contact with the first lady,” the source said
> station employees were told.
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> In his book “Unlimited Access,” former White House FBI agent
> Gary Aldrich reported that a similar edict had been issued to White
> House staff.
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> When one admiring aide who didn’t get the word rushed up to meet
> her Hillaryness, he was immediately rebuffed with an ice-cold stare
> that let him know he was way out of line.
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> A friend, says Aldrich, explained the new rule to the crestfallen
> staffer:
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> “When ‘Queen Hillary’ walks down the hall, you’re not supposed to
> look at her. You’re actually supposed to go into an office if there is
> one nearby. She doesn’t want staff ‘seeing’ her.”
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> Now, renowned conservative columnist Robert Novak reports that
> Queen Hillary’s Senate colleagues are getting the same treatment.
> “At the first session of the Senate Environment and Public Works
> Committee attended by Sen. Hillary Clinton, a senior Republican
> senator Wednesday tested the report that it is impossible to make
> eye contact with her.”
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> “He said the report turned out to be true,” Novak wrote in his
> Sunday column.