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It was Hillary’s first formal event as First Lady, and she was nervous, but it went well. A few months earlier Tom Oliphant, the thoughtful and independent-mindedBostonGlobe columnist, summed up the situatio I fought for people to have the right to work but not to have whole communities and people abandoned. I was heartsick about it.

I don’t know why I even mentioned it; maybe I thought I was being funny, or perhaps it was just a nervous reaction to a subject I didn’t want to discuss. aught up in Jim McDougal’s downward mental spiral and David Hale’s desperate effort to save himself. It seemed to me that we didn’t have much to lose, and I always preferred failure in a worthy effort to inaction for fear of failure. In the last week of the campaign, at Governor Gray Davis’s request, I flew to California for two days of campaigning for the tick