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I, Hillary Rodham Clinton, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, so help me God." On January 20, 2009, at precisely noon, the world will witness the inauguration of the forty-fourth president of the United States. As the chief justice administers the oath of office on the flag-draped podium in front of the U.S. Capitol, the first woman president, Hillary Rodham Clinton, will be sworn into office. By her side, smiling broadly and...

Hillary Clinton is most certainly not the scheming, bitter, partisan portrayed in Dick Morris and Eileen McGann's bestselling book "Condi vs Hillary," which the New York Times derides in a Sunday book review as "a Fox News fairy tale." Times Washington correspondent Robin Toner insists that the Morris-McGann tome is more parody than reality, dismissing their claims that Hillary is filled with "rage" at Republicans; along with the assertion that Clinton, "at her core . . . believes in income redistribution." So when Mrs. Clinton bellows - as she did at a Democratic fundraiser in 2003 - that she's "sick...

In a scene sure to send chills down the spines of Republicans everywhere, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann begin their new book, "Condi vs. Hillary: the Next Great Presidential Race," with the former first lady taking the presidential oath of office on January 20, 2009. "By her side, smiling broadly and holding the family Bible will be her chief strategist, husband and co-president, William Jefferson Clinton," they note, lest anyone forget the full implications of such a scene. But like Dickens' "Christmas Carol," the Morris-McGann tome warns of a dark future that might yet be avoided - if Republicans realize...