Hillary Was Home On Day Bill Had Affair

Former First Lady's Schedules Released, Shed Light On Her Trips Abroad, Health Care Effort

(AP)  Hillary Rodham Clinton was home in the White House the day her husband had an infamous sexual encounter just outside the Oval Office with intern Monica Lewinsky, according to Sen. Clinton's schedule, released Wednesday among 11,000 pages of papers from her years as first lady.

The words of the schedules are dry, but they take on emotional weight when coupled with revelations about the sex scandal that eventually came to light. A year later, the first lady's schedules show her pressing ahead with public events and showing her face as the scandal upended her life and threatened Bill Clinton's presidency.

The papers also shed light on her struggle for health care reform early in the Clinton administration, her scaling back when that effort failed, her travels abroad and the legal woes that dogged the Clintons in the White House.

It's unlikely she would be surprised at this late date to learn that the president was cheating on her while she was at home in the White House. But the release of the documents reminds voters anew about Bill Clinton's affair and the impeachment proceedings that brought Washington to a halt for a year.

The private crisis came at the most public of times for the first lady.

She had speeches scheduled, at home and abroad. She appeared by President Clinton's side at an education event where he angrily dismissed the reports of having sex with Lewinsky.

Her schedule has her choosing flowers for a black-tie dinner, congratulating "Guns Aren't Cool" award winners and reading to kids in the week in January 1998 when allegations of the scandal begin coming out. She denounced a "vast right-wing conspiracy" in a TV interview.

Almost a year earlier, the schedules show, she was home on Feb. 28, 1997, the day when the Kenneth Starr report says Bill Clinton had a sexual encounter with Lewinsky in an Oval Office bathroom in the early evening, staining her blue dress.

Mrs. Clinton had "drop by" events or meetings in the Map Room and Diplomatic Reception Room between 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. that day, according to her schedule. It also lists plays that night at Washington's Arena Stage and National Theater, and a National Symphony Orchestra pops concert with singer Sarah Brightman at the Kennedy Center.

It is not clear whether Mrs. Clinton attended any of those.

The National Archives in Washington and former President Clinton's presidential library in Arkansas jointly released the first lady's schedules after months of pressure from critics who say the Clintons were delaying the disclosure. The issue has dogged her in her bid for the White House.

In all, 11,046 pages have been made available. Nearly 4,800 pages have parts blacked out. Archivists said that's to protect the privacy of third parties. Schedules for more than 30 days of activities were not included in this release.

Clinton, now New York senator, said in her memoirs that she had little choice but to carry on with her appearances when the Lewinsky revelations came out. It was on Jan. 21, 1998, when her husband woke her up, sat on the edge of the bed and said, "There's something in today's papers you should know about." He told her of the reports of his relationship with the former intern, and she said she believed his denials.

But on Saturday, Aug. 15, 1998, with the investigation closing in on the real story, he woke her up again and owned up to his misbehavior. She said in her book that she was grateful there were no public events that weekend.

Before the Lewinsky ordeal, Mrs. Clinton faced her own legal troubles in 1996 during the criminal investigation of the Clintons' Whitewater real estate dealings in Arkansas.

In the Whitewater probe, one of the pivotal events occurred on Jan. 4, 1996, a day in which Mrs. Clinton's personal calendar for late that afternoon is marked "Private Meeting" with her chief of staff, Margaret Williams.

Several hours earlier, an aide had discovered inside the White House family residence long-sought billing records of Mrs. Clinton's legal work on Whitewater-related real estate transactions that turned out to be fraudulent.

Furious prosecutors, who had subpoenaed the records 18 months earlier, ordered Mrs. Clinton to testify before a federal grand jury about the records. She appeared on Jan. 26, 1996.

Her calendar for Jan. 26 says "No Public Schedule," although the first lady stood before a bank of microphones in front of the federal courthouse in Washington, and declared: "I am happy to answer the grand jury's questions." Several hours of testimony she gave that day made her the first first lady to ever be hauled in for such questioning.

Neither the federal probe by Independent Counsel Starr nor Republican-led investigations on Capitol Hill were ever able to sort out why the records of Mrs. Clinton's work had never been turned over to investigators. Mrs. Clinton said she had no idea where the billing records had been.

Prosecutors concluded they did not have enough to prove that she was a knowing participant in criminal conduct by others including Whitewater business partner Jim McDougal.

Her Democratic presidential campaign released a statement Wednesday saying the schedules spanning her two terms as first lady "illustrate the array of substantive issues she worked on" and her travel to more than 80 countries "in pursuit of the administration's domestic and foreign policy goals."

Clinton says her years as first lady equip her to handle foreign policy and national security as president.

But the schedules show trips packed with plainly traditional activities for a first lady, along with some substance.

For example, in her January 1994 visit to Russia with her husband, her schedule is focused on events with other wives. She sat in on a birthing class at a hospital, toured a cathedral and joined prominent women in a lunch of blinis with caviar and salmon.

The Clinton campaign said the schedules are merely a guide and don't reflect all of her activities.

The papers show her tackling health care reform out of the gate in 1993, with a meeting three days after her husband's inauguration and many more as the year went on, before her effort ultimately failed.

She was also involved in helping her husband win congressional approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement, a deal she now criticizes and says she would try to change.

Her White House policy role diminished markedly after the collapse of the health care initiative.

However, she maintained a highly visible place in the administration.

For example, at the same time she was facing the Whitewater criminal investigation, she was raising her profile with the publication of her book, "It Takes A Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us."

Her 10-city book tour started a national dialogue that eventually became fodder for political critics on the needs of children.

In addition, the first lady was part of the public face of presidential bill signings. In the stage directions for the signing of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, the calendar for Aug. 21, 1996, states: "HRC will not have a role but will be seated in the front row."

[jack3213]

The only reason Obama is popular at this time: More blacks are voting, and Whites are voting against Clinton. Both Democrats will lose. Why? Either alone cannot sustain the party. General Election theory: If Obama is chosen the whites will vote for Mccain. If Clinton is chosen no blacks will vote. No amount of speeches or papers will change this.

[marimour]

Meetings with wives? What happened to negotiating peace in Northern Ireland? I''m on the fence but this definitely has me leaning towards Obama right now.

[hp32970c]

The only reason Obama is popular at this time: More blacks are voting, and Whites are voting against Clinton. Both Democrats will lose. Why? Either alone cannot sustain the party. General Election theory: If Obama is chosen the whites will vote for Mccain. If Clinton is chosen no blacks will vote. No amount of speeches or papers will change this.

I didn''t notice an "against Clinton" button. If whites are voting against Clinton as you say that means they''re voting for Obama.

[hp32970c]

Nice of her to throw us a crumb. Frankly I''m not interested in who she had tea with. I want to see the tax returns and the list of donors to slick Willy''s library.

[infidel_us]

''Her schedule has her choosing flowers for a black-tie dinner, congratulating "Guns Aren''t Cool" award winners and reading to kids in the week in January 1998.''

Yep, she certainly has the chops to be president. just look at all the ''experience'' she has. For humanoids like MCVet, these qualifications are good enough to make her queen for life! LOL

[infidel_us]

Her Democratic presidential campaign released a statement Wednesday saying the schedules spanning her two terms as first lady "illustrate the array of substantive issues she worked on" - ROFL!!!!

[colonieny]

IF BILL WAS THE FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT, WASN''T CARTER THE FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT ?

[adiant-2009]

What a lack of seriousness in CBS! I think that the worst shortcoming we have in our country is the so called press. CBS in particular. You do not deserve to be read, honestly. Couldn''t you find something less salacious for a first headline? Bunch of low class pseudo-media you are. As far as I''m concerned, I won''t return to your page. And I intend to withdraw from your registered readers.

[donbl1]

Wow, what a schedule.

Good with flowers, young children and birthing classes.

Makes a guy wonder what Bubba would be doing if he was first spouse? Would he be trusted to go with the other leaders wives by themselves? Or, would he be left behind in Canada.......?

[kstar42]

The only reason Obama is popular at this time: More blacks are voting, and Whites are voting against Clinton. Both Democrats will lose. Why? Either alone cannot sustain the party. General Election theory: If Obama is chosen the whites will vote for Mccain. If Clinton is chosen no blacks will vote. No amount of speeches or papers will change this.

I didn''''t notice an "against Clinton" button. If whites are voting against Clinton as you say that means they''''re voting for Obama.


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Posted by hp32970c at 02:52 PM : Mar 19, 2008

Where did you get that information at? Look at the polls, Doesn''t look to good for Barack!!!

[lorinkundert]

Any outcome without Hillary is a win.

[pepperp1]

Well its obvious now why OBAMA keep demanding the release of these Schedules, see how much we benefit for his gifts wont we be such a better country for knowing Senator Clinton was in Town when her husband was being STUPID..

[donbl1]

This information about Obama (Wright) and Clinton (schedules) is coming out so late that all the other potential nominees are gone.

These two really are slipper politicians as they knew this stuff was deadly and they kept it out of sight until almost the end when their party was stuck with them.

[xlib]

Does anyone give rat''s behind whether she was in the WH or not. I could care less. I want to see her tax returns and those documents released. Maybe someone should go up in the WH attic to look for them. After, isn''t that where she kept other documents she didn''t want to release?
Someone needs to tell me why this biotch gets a break and thumbs her nose at us. Why did the other candidates release what was asked but not her? Why aren''t there articles on this?? Nope, she''s golden and gets away with murder (marcy park)

[smashwl7]

Hillary sat in all the big meetings, right? She has the experience to lead us right?

[pepperp1]

The only reason Obama is popular at this time: More blacks are voting, and Whites are voting against Clinton. Both Democrats will lose. Why? Either alone cannot sustain the party. General Election theory: If Obama is chosen the whites will vote for Mccain. If Clinton is chosen no blacks will vote. No amount of speeches or papers will change this.


Well thats not true Obama is pulling in Ind and Repugs 67 percent of dems who truned out voted for the girl.

[donbl1]

There is a reason for delaying the 2007 taxes until the last possible moment before Penn.

The delay is the $20M payment from the investment group in Dubai which Bubba got for helping the head of Dubai buy American assets.

[gkc99]

"Yep, she certainly has the chops to be president. just look at all the ''''experience'''' she has. For humanoids like MCVet, these qualifications are good enough to make her queen for life! LOL "--Posted by Infidel_Us


Oh yeah, we could have the senile, pissy little old man McCain, admiral''s son, passed out of Annapolis thanks to that, spent his war career napalming little girls, collaborated with the NVA, married big money and bought a senate seat.

Now there''s qualifications that should endear McCain to every White man! Another brain dead loser, this one with a low flash point.

Way too much of a risk to elect the Manchurian Candidate.

[donbl1]

Peppr1, actually, the Ohio results do not support that. Texas, either.

[shanev137]

This is why she shouldn''t be elected.

Nobody wants to keep reliving the 90''s over and over again about the immoral Clinton saga.

[taddles-2009]

"Hillary sat in all the big meetings, right? She has the experience to lead us right?

Posted by smashwl7 at 05:30 PM : Mar 19, 2008"

Yea, uh well, on her visit to Russia she "toured a cathedral and joined prominent women in a lunch of blinis with caviar and salmon". I guess if you consider eating Blini''s and touring a cathedral a big meeting yea sure she did.

Though I''m pretty sure according to that definition I''ve been to a lot of "big meetings" in my time too. I''ve toured my share of cathedrals and had a blini or two...*******! I''m presidential material!!!

[samthetvcat]

The schedules are all public, aren''t they . . . and yet I''m too lazy to check them for myself right now - lol.

It''s kind of telling that after all these years, and after a whole year of campaigning, the first question that comes to all of our minds is what Hillary was doing when Bill was doing Monica. If you were to ask people to name one thing Bill Clinton did while in office, the number one answer would probably be Monica. I don''t know why we as people are so silly but my minds in the same place as everybody else''s lol

Politically, I wonder though whether there''s any references to SCHIP . . . didn''t Arlen Spector say her role in persuading Bubba to tilt the deadlock over it? If you look at the timing, her bargaining chip was that it was on the table after Monica-gate exploded . . .

Like why so many references to HIllary''s role in the failed healthcare plan, but no mention of SCHIP? Any mention of meeting with Arlen Spector (is that who it was?) and Ted Kennedy?

[no_billary]

So that''s why Hillary was answering the phone @ 3am, Bill was busy leaving his "legacy" on Monicas blue dress in the bathroom. The clintons are stain on America.

[gkc99]

At least Hilly knows the difference between Iraq and Iran without having a teleprompter boy have to remind her.

Guess that 1 in 8 Alzheimer''s probability for baby boomers has hit McCain.

But brain dead retards are Repug material! Especially when they are draft dodgers (Bushit, Romney) or collaborators (McCain).

[samthetvcat]

--"The delay is the $20M payment from the investment group in Dubai which Bubba got for helping the head of Dubai buy American assets."--
Posted by donbl1

I wonder whether they''ll release all the other tax records except for THAT one (the one we all REALLY want to see) . . . grrr!

[DCropp]

Hillary''s schedule records just linked her to NAFTA.
November 10, 1993

Now which is it?
Hillary called NAFTA one of Bill''s crowning achievements.
Just over 2 weeks ago, Hillary said she was never involved in NAFTA.
Now, her schedule records show she was involved.


How about those tax records, first lady phone records, Clinton library contributors, "earmark" request records?

[kennergirl]

Isn''t that where most women are when their husband is cheating?

[xzonz]

For example, in her January 1994 visit to Russia with her husband, her schedule is focused on events with other wives. She sat in on a birthing class at a hospital, toured a cathedral and joined prominent women in a lunch of blinis with caviar and salmon.

The Clinton campaign said the schedules are merely a guide and don''t reflect all of her activities.

The papers show her tackling health care reform out of the gate in 1993, with a meeting three days after her husband''s inauguration and many more as the year went on, before her effort ultimately failed.

She was also involved in helping her husband win congressional approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement, a deal she now criticizes and says she would try to change.

[ccjenkins3]

This country is in a recession, with rising gas prices, and escalation of loss of jobs. I could care less about the former schedule of Hillary. I want her to win because she is the best candidate!

[oldabeeagle]

Hillary is so corrupt that Judicial Watch has a special page for her:

http://www.judicialwatch.org/hillarywatch.shtml

[jn122736]

This is why she shouldn''''t be elected.

Nobody wants to keep reliving the 90''''s over and over again about the immoral Clinton saga.
Posted by shanev137 at 05:37 PM : Mar 19, 2008
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Do you mean as compared to the present Bush administration with the Iraq fiasco, doubled national debt, ($9 trillion and climbing, with $1/2 trillion annual interest), a crumbling economy, ad infinitum.

[cmp271]

And this is what Democrats in America want back in our White House. How disgusting!!!

We need to bring back what horrible things this woman did while she was "first lady" and before when she lived in Arkansas.

Keep reminding us of why we don''t want the Clintons back in.

Obama and his bigoted friends either!!

[marthainal]

First of all, why is this even being "reported"? This is not news. Secondly, what possible reason is there for making Hillary go through all of this again? There is no political purpose for this, no legitimate purpose of any kind that I can see, unless someone just has some ulterior need to try to humiliate Hillary. She is a U.S. Senator and a human being. No matter what anyone thinks of her personally, she deserves dignity and respect, and from what I have seen, she has received precious little of either from the press or even from a good portion of the population of this country which she has spent the bulk of her lifetime serving.

[cmp271]

Makes a guy wonder what Bubba would be doing if he was first spouse? Would he be trusted to go with the other leaders wives by themselves? Or, would he be left behind in Canada.......?


Obviously, other know about the MP in Canada named Belinda. Bill was muzzled and reigned in after this. His "affairs" are held at friends homes to hide it from the news pictures.

[rudy654-2009]

Hillary is so corrupt that Judicial Watch has a special page for her:

http://www.judicialwatch.org/hil
larywatch.shtml
Posted by OldAbeEagle at 06:08 PM

I bet you are just glowing example of integrity.

[drum747]

I wonder where Obama was that day? At church?

[rowdytexan2]

I have visions of these people, wings spread, landing on this carcus like swirling vultures, ripping and tearing at dead flesh!

Good Gawd!

[drum747]

"I understand MSNBC has suspended Mr. Imus," Obama told ABC News, "but I would also say that there''''s nobody on my staff who would still be working for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group. And I would hope that NBC ends up having that same attitude."
Why you lie Obama? Obama, why you lie?

[rowdytexan2]

I''d be willing to bet every Obama campaigner has flown in and lit on the carcus like those gremlins pounced on that guy in the movie Ghost. ROFL!

[spinster2]

BLACK PREACHER UPDATE

Black preacher calls Obama emmisary of the devil and says he''s nothing but trash. I could hardly belive my ears.

Video can be seen here.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=khuu-RhOBDU

[jockh]

If Hillary can loan 5 million dollars to her campaign then surely the voters have a right to know the source of her funding.

Why wont Hillary release her tax returns? People with nothing to hide don''t usually hide.
The main excuse we''ve gotten so far is that Hillary Clinton just has too much on her plate. "I''m a little busy right now," she said during the Ohio debate. "I hardly have time to sleep. But I will certainly work toward releasing, and we will get that done and in the public domain."
That was three weeks ago. Two weeks ago, Howard Wolfson promised the returns would be released "on or around April 15." But weren''t the returns completed and filed a long time ago? Doesn''t Clinton''s accountant have time to print them out and make some copies (note to Clinton''s accountant: many Kinko''s are open 24 hours).

In short, it''s well past time for Hillary Clinton to be as "vetted" as she claims to already be -- and to have this vetting done now by Democratic voters rather than later by GOP hit squads. She needs to live up to the standard she laid out for Rick Lazio, the opponent in her 2000 Senate race. At that time, she said it was "frankly disturbing" that Lazio was holding back on releasing his tax returns and she even sent a staffer dressed as Uncle Sam to taunt him during campaign stops.
What a difference eight years -- and tens of millions of dollars (some of them from questionable deals) -- can make.

[dogsoul]

"Do you mean as compared to the present Bush administration with the Iraq fiasco, doubled national debt, ($9 trillion and climbing, with $1/2 trillion annual interest), a crumbling economy, ad infinitum. "

Actually - Bush was pretty much greeted with a recession when he took office... as well as severely ill maintained military & intelligence agencies... Well, with the dot.coms crashing & all those corporate scandals fermenting... what could you expect.... oh yeah, that pesky little 9/11 situation - well heck, after we responded pussily to previous attacks - that was probably unavoidable as well...

Say what you want about Bush - but that''s what he was faced while in office but a few months - gift wrapped & signed by the Clintons...

Now after that recession, the economy was humming nicely for about 5-6 years - but you''d never know it from the liberal media... they''ve been acting like it''s a recession this whole TIME!

Fact is that much like liberals desperately yearn for failure against Al Queda & other radical Islamic groups - they''re also happy as clams that the economy is shaky - because whether it hurts America or not... it helps their war on Bush - and that''s all that matters

Liberals - backstabbing America since 1953

[carpriddler]

She was choosing flowers for a black tie dinner at the time Bill was getting a Lewinsky. I''m sold - I want her answering the phone at 3AM the next time the United States is under attack!

[rowdytexan2]

And Karl Rove...I can just see him pouncing and sniveling drool all over these documents. Although I''d be willing to be he already had them, years ago.

[vet_sk]

ccjenkins3, The reason this was asked for is because she claims national security creditials from being first lady. But what has come out in the last week is that she was just a first lady and met with other first ladys. That''s not a bad thing but it is not national security experience. Hillary''s national security experience is voting for the Iraq War in 2002 and just last September voting for the Iran Resolution for another bogus war. Thanksfully Admiral Fallon resigned rather then go to war with Iran for bogus reasons.

[coco0331]

This story sounds like something Jack {The Smear} Cafferty, Or Lou {Damage Control} Dobbs off of the Communist News Network would come up with. Ken Star wasted 157 million dollars trying to prosecute the Clinton''s. This is all they came up with?? I would say the Clinton''s were innocent. And this article is nothing but a cheap smear. Why don''t you just follow CNN and promote A known racist, and aid the communist party and MCcain come November.

[rowdytexan2]

Why wont Hillary release her tax returns?

Posted by jockh at 06:27 PM : Mar 19, 2008

Why don''t you release yours and let us drool vomit all over them, and make something out of nothing so we can all scream and yell and distract this campaign from the real issues?

[no_billary]

The specials menu @ the Mexican restaurant I was at said "Burritos big enough to choke Monica Lewinsky" the good old days... Whats a good detergent to clean up a messy Bubba blast on a blue dress?

[lilbambella]

let''s face it, her efforts for health care reform were squashed because she was a first lady and many fealt she should just be picking out flowers and china patterns... let''s remember folks, she WASN''T president and shouldn''t have to have her schedules dug up. What''s Laura Bush up to?? She should be given some credit for atleast trying. I still can''t understand why Clinton was impeached for being unfaithful, when Bush is misspending TRILLIONS of dollars in Iraq, under false pretenses.

[jockh]

If Hillary can loan 5 million dollars to her campaign then surely the voters have a right to know the source of her funding.

Why wont Hillary release her tax returns? People with nothing to hide don''t usually hide.
The main excuse we''ve gotten so far is that Hillary Clinton just has too much on her plate. "I''m a little busy right now," she said during the Ohio debate. "I hardly have time to sleep. But I will certainly work toward releasing, and we will get that done and in the public domain."
That was three weeks ago. Two weeks ago, Howard Wolfson promised the returns would be released "on or around April 15." But weren''t the returns completed and filed a long time ago? Doesn''t Clinton''s accountant have time to print them out and make some copies (note to Clinton''s accountant: many Kinko''s are open 24 hours).

In short, it''s well past time for Hillary Clinton to be as "vetted" as she claims to already be -- and to have this vetting done now by Democratic voters rather than later by GOP hit squads. She needs to live up to the standard she laid out for Rick Lazio, the opponent in her 2000 Senate race. At that time, she said it was "frankly disturbing" that Lazio was holding back on releasing his tax returns and she even sent a staffer dressed as Uncle Sam to taunt him during campaign stops.
What a difference eight years -- and tens of millions of dollars (some of them from questionable deals) -- can make.