BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON Two for the price of one. REUTERS/GARY HERSHORN
Originally published on September 8, 1996
One of the more depressing Tuesdays in recent women’s history was August 27, 1996. That was the day Hillary Clinton appeared on stage at the Democratic National Convention, wearing a Jackie O. suit, uttering the mantra: Husband-Family-Children-Husband-Family-Children. It seemed all the vestiges of the original Hillary had disappeared: her former provoked, impatient expression had been replaced by a look of warm, benign motherliness. “All over the country little girls and little boys are being tucked into their beds,” she murmured, like she was telling a bedtime story. It was as if she’d been hypnotized, or lobotomized.