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During Watergate probe, a 'star' on the rise

Twenty-four years before the phrase "high crimes and misdemeanors" would jolt Bill Clinton's presidency, Hillary Rodham was singing those very words in the back of a friend's car rolling slowly through downtown Washington.

"High crimes and misdemeanors, high crimes and misdemeanors," the 27-year-old Rodham caroled to the delight of several other lawyers working on the House Judiciary Committee's...

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