sara from trying so she devised a plan to drive hillary from washington, dc, to fayetteville, all the while, trying to convince her to change her mind. and all the way down, she would tell it, sara would stop every 20 miles and say, for god s sakes, do you know what you re doing, you re throwing your future away, your you doing this and she would say, but i love him and i want to be with him so we drove, and we drove. after two and a half days of meandering through the south, sara s strategy had failed. hillary had hillary had a arrived in arkansas. it was the beginning of the life she wanted, and when she hugged me good-bye, i felt, well, that s it, i m probably never going to see her again, and the next day, i went to watch bill clinton running for congress and he stood up on a tree stump and he talked. we were on the virge of a
road scholar from arkansas. he was tall, 6 2 , and had this head of frizzy reddish hair. did he make his political ambitions known? absolutely. i remember he had been at law school two or three days and we went through the line in the lunchroom and he knew the flames of everyo names of all the servers in the lunchroom, called them by name. it wasn t until the spring of 1971, in the yale library, bill clinton would learn the name of the young women who would change everything. years later, hillary recount the the exact moment. i physical you re going to keep looking at me and i m going to keep looking at you, we ought to at least know each other s names, i m hillary rodham, and i said who are you? he said he couldn t remember his name that. makes me feel so good. what were they like together?
so instead of tying the knot and moving to arkansas where bill was forging his political career, hillary followed her passion to massachusetts, and went to work for her mentor, maryanne wright-edelman. my work showed me how much we need to do to help abused and neglected kids, kids in adult jails and lousy schools. all kinds of problems. i was fix eighted i, a ted on w could do. i trusted her to do any ability of research, whether it was basic research or to go into the field, hillary was always a star. but soon, another opportunity emerged that gave hillary a front-row seat to history. what did the president know? and when did he know it? in 1974, hillary moved to washington, d.c. to work on the