The Making of Hillary Clinton

December 9, 2007

Growing up Rodham

Back then, chicken a la cheese won recipe contests, and an Amana Free-o-Frost was the answer to every woman's problems. Hugh Rodham woke up each morning in his thick-walled suburban dream home in Park Ridge, Ill., bellowing the songs of Mitch Miller and the Gang (Singalong favorites! "Ain't We Got Fun"!), and sat down each night to dinner served exactly at 6 p.m., over which he issued loud pronouncements about American self-reliance.

March 2, 2008

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.

November 27, 2007

First lady was the disciplined Clinton

She always came prepared. From the first planning sessions for her husband's victorious 1992 presidential run through the final 1994 White House meetings she chaired as the Clinton administration's ill-fated healthcare initiative collapsed, Hillary Rodham Clinton was a force to be reckoned with as a decision-maker.