Takeaways From Hillary Clinton’s New Book, ‘Something Lost, Something Gained’
In her latest memoir, Clinton takes on student protests, foreign policy and even clown school.
She remains deeply distressed by campus protests over the Israel-Gaza War
Clinton says she was “struck by how little history of the region most of our students had been exposed to,” adding, “History matters. Context matters. Especially in such a difficult and complex crisis, where nothing is black and white and enmities go back decades if not millennia. If we don’t educate ourselves — and not just through propaganda or snippets of video served up by an algorithm controlled by the Chinese Communist Party on TikTok — we can’t form good judgments or advocate effectively for smart policies. That’s not just true for young people; it’s true for all of us, including policymakers in Washington.”
She is philosophical about aging, and clowning
“Yes, I have more aches and pains than I used to. I go to more funerals than I’d like. But I also read more novels and see more Broadway shows. Somehow, I’ve even become a novelist myself — and a Broadway producer and a Hollywood filmmaker; I even took clown lessons with Chelsea at the Moulin Rouge in Paris, red nose and all. Never thought I’d do that!”
the School of International and Public Affairs was founded in 1946, drawing upon the resources of the faculties of political science, economics, and history.[83] The Columbia University Bicentennial was celebrated in 1954.[84]
In 2010, the School of International and Public Affairs, which was previously a part of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, became an independent faculty.[91]
Mrs. Clinton, 75,
Mrs. Clinton, who has been made a full professor in addition to her role with the institute.
14th floor of Columbia’s International Affairs Building,
there may be no softer landing ground than an Ivy League campus in New York City.
Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, a graduate school where tuition is more than $65,000 per year. “Inside the Situation Room,” as the class is called, is part of a broader partnership between Mrs. Clinton and Dr. Yarhi-Milo,
The class — named for the White House command center — is meant to deconstruct how choices with geopolitical consequences are made, through the lens of Dr. Yarhi-Milo’s data and Mrs. Clinton’s experiences. More than 800 students applied to take the class, submitting essays for consideration; about 370 graduate and undergraduate students were accepted. All were screened by the Secret Service.
| President | Minouche Shafik |
|---|---|
| Provost | Dennis Mitchell |
Academic staff | 4,370[4] |
| Students | 34,782 (Fall 2022)[5] |
| Undergraduates | 6,668 (Fall 2022)[n 1][5] |
| Postgraduates | 25,880 (Fall 2022)[5] |
The new job at Columbia may allow Mrs. Clinton to re-emerge publicly as a foreign policy expert, after years of being depicted in the press and the public’s imagination as the presidential candidate vanquished by Donald J. Trump.
Why? “Summertime,” she said, and reflected on the season’s pursuits that brought her joy: Movies (“‘Oppenheimer,’” she said, “was extraordinary”); books (she stayed up until 3 a.m. reading Ann Patchett’s “Tom Lake”); and theater. Last Sunday, she took her three grandchildren to the “The Lion King” on Broadway. “There is nothing like seeing it with little kids,” she said.
Hillary Clinton
Before this year ends, I want to thank you again for your support of our campaign. While we didn't achieve the outcome we sought, I'm proud of the vision and values we fought for and the nearly 66 million people who voted for them.
I believe it is our responsibility to keep doing our part to build a better, stronger, and fairer future for our country and the world.
The holidays are a time to be thankful for our blessings. So let us rejoice in this season and look forward with renewed hope and determination.
I wish you and your family health, happiness, and continued strength for the New Year and the work ahead. I look forward to staying in touch in 2017. Onward!
With deep appreciation and warm wishes, I am,
Yours,
Hillary
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Robert Reich
I spoke with a leading Democrat this morning, who said Hillary "had it made," but worried she won't be able to get anything done once she's president. I asked him why.
"First of all," he said, "She won't have the typical presidential honeymoon. There won't be a 'first hundred days.' She’s more distrusted by the public than any major candidate in recent history. By Election Day the public will be choosing which candidate they hate the least."
"But at least she'll have a Democratic Senate," I said.
"There's no way Dems get 60 votes, so it won't help much."
"But the public will insist on certain of her policies, right?"
"Unlikely. She hasn't established a mandate to get anything big and significant done. Most of the public has no idea what she stands for."
"What about her infrastructure proposal? That's pretty ambitious."
"Are you kidding me? $275 billion over five years is chicken shit. By the time it gets watered down it will pave a few roads."
"What about her proposed Buffet Rule, that every rich American will have to pay at least a 30 percent top tax?"
"Get real. The guys with the money are laughing all the way to Union Station. They stopped it dead under Obama. They'll kill it again."
"So what do you think she'll do as president?"
"It will be foreign policy, 24-7."
"And she knows what she's doing there."
"I hope so. She'll certainly be more hawkish than Obama."
"You're painting a pretty bleak picture."
"Not at all. The news is good. Trump is melting down. And he's bonkers."
Hillary Clinton is the official candidate of the Democractic Party. Scandal-dogged, distrusted and divisive, a workaday campaigner with a style and résumé at odds with her party’s humour, she is not ideal. Yet all this may hardly matter. Our briefing from April
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Robert Reich
I’ve known Hillary Clinton since she was 19 years old. And for over 25 years I’ve seen her and her husband the target of the media -- especially, but not exclusively, the rightwing media machine. I was there in 1992 when she defended her husband against charges of infidelity by Jennifer Flowers. I was in the cabinet when she was accused of fraudulent dealings in Whitewater and then “Travelgate,”and accused of conspiracy in the tragic suicide of Vince Foster. I watched as she drew withering criticism as chair of Bill Clinton’s healthcare task force. And then came Monica, and Bill Clinton’s impeachment.
Someone who for a quarter century has been mercilessly attacked in the media, and whose husband has been similarly attacked, might be reluctant to expose any error, for fear of it being blown up into another “scandal,” another media circus. She might have an understandable impulse to minimize or deny misstep. She might eschew press conferences.
And yet that impulse itself can generate distrust, when, as with her emails while secretary of state, she is shown to be less than forthright. Everyone in public life knows how important it is to get everything out because a perceived “cover-up” can cause the media and the public to suspect even worse.
Given her history, Hillary Clinton’s reluctance to reveal error or carelessness is understandable. But it is self-defeating. A growing portion of the public doesn’t trust her. It is critically important that she recognize this, and become more open and accessible.
What do you think?
Robert Reich
According to Ben White, Politico's chief economic correspondent, Wall Street’s biggest Democratic donors who have helped fund Hillary Clinton’s campaigns over the years are threatening to withhold their cash if she picks Elizabeth Warren as her running mate. So far, Wall Street is Clinton's top source of money, already donating over $28 million.
This is a great argument for Hillary Clinton picking Elizabeth Warren. It would show the public Hillary isn’t in the pocket of the Street.
What do you think?
Wall Street tells Hillary Clinton: We'll cut you off if you pick Elizabeth Warren
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The passion and honesty of her words resonate.
Elizabeth Warren is sincere in her moral indignation, and she came by it the hard way. Her Oklahoma childhood was stalked by financial ruin after her father fell ill. Her career as a scholar of bankruptcy law led her into the public arena, as a campaigner against predatory lenders. What does she want? It’s not the presidency, and for good reason http://econ.st/1esaYd9
Elizabeth Warren is sincere in her moral indignation, and she came by it the hard way. Her Oklahoma childhood was stalked by financial ruin after her father fell ill. Her career as a scholar of bankruptcy law led her into the public arena, as a campaigner against predatory lenders. What does she want? It’s not the presidency, and for good reason http://econ.st/1esaYd9
Behind Consumer Agency Idea, a Tireless Advocate
By JODI KANTOR
Published: March 24, 2010
WASHINGTON — Ask Elizabeth Warren, scourge of Wall Street bankers, how they treat consumers, and she will shake her head with indignation. She will talk about morality, about fairness, about what she calls their “let them eat cake” attitude toward taxpayers. If she is riled enough, she might even spit out the Warren version of an expletive.
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Elizabeth Warren during an event at the White House in October where President Obama called for new consumer protections and urged Congress to pass regulatory reform legislation.
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Elizabeth Warren, head of oversight of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, has strongly advocated for middle-class families.
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Elizabeth Warren with Richard H. Neiman, New York's superintendent of banks, last month.
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Elizabeth Warren, 3, in Norman, Okla. She became a speech therapist, then a lawyer and an expert in bankruptcy law.
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Among all the dramatis personae of post-financial crisis Washington, there is no one remotely like Ms. Warren, 60, who has divided the town between those who admire her and those who roll their eyes at her.
She is an Oklahoma native, a janitor’s daughter, a bankruptcy expert at Harvard Law School and a former Sunday School teacher who cites John Wesley — the co-founder of Methodism and a public health crusader — as an inspiration. She brims with cheer, yet she is she is such a fearsome interrogator that Bruce Mann, her husband, describes her as a grandmother who can make grown men cry. Back at Harvard, Ms. Warren’s teaching style is “Socratic with a machine gun,” as one former student put it. In Washington, she grills bankers and Treasury officials just as relentlessly.
Ms. Warren has two roles here: officially, as head of Congressional oversight for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, and unofficially, as chief conceiver of and booster for a new consumer financial protection agency. Fusing those projects and her academic work, she has become the most prominent consumer advocate in years.
In a blitz of television appearances, she offers a story of how 30 years of deregulation has rewarded the financial industry but led to abusive practices and collapses that have hurt ordinary Americans — the same taxpayers who are paying for bank bailouts.
Ms. Warren’s climactic hour begins now: three years after she hatched the idea for the agency, the White House has backed it, the House of Representatives has approved it and it is a top Democratic priority in the Senate.
Many fans, including Representative Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts, hope Ms. Warren will run it. But even if the agency is approved, it might be far weaker than what she envisioned, thanks to fierce opposition from the financial industry.
Critics argue that such an agency, which would regulate mortgages, credit cards and nearly all other loans to consumers, would tighten credit in an already tight market, stifle innovation and hurt small businesses.
They have another objection as well: to Ms. Warren herself. As one administration official acknowledged, the prospect of her running the new agency may be an impediment to its creation because of her crusading style, her seemingly visceral loathing of financial services companies and her expansive way of interpreting assignments.
“ ‘Loose cannon’ would be an appropriate term to apply in her case,” said Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and a Warren supporter.
The defining event of Elizabeth Warren’s life may have taken place before she was born, when a business partner ran off with the money her father had scraped together to start a car dealership. She arrived a few years later, in 1949, another mouth for a strapped family to feed. But she used that mouth to talk her way into a debate scholarship at George Washington University at age 16.
She became a speech therapist, then a lawyer — she hung a shingle and did wills and real estate closings — then a part-time law instructor, and finally a leading scholar of bankruptcy. Her research helped change the stereotype of bankrupt people as feckless deadbeats: many, she showed, are middle-class workers upended by divorce or illness.
While Ms. Warren was building her career, her father became a maintenance man and her three older brothers back in Oklahoma worked in construction, car repair and the oil fields. Among them, they have endured all manner of financial crisis, including foreclosure, according to Ms. Warren’s husband.
“I learned early on what debt means, how vulnerable it makes people, what the security of owning a home means,” Ms. Warren said, her eyes welling. Even today, said Ms. Warren’s daughter, Amelia Warren Tyagi, her mother is so frugal that she eats shriveled grapes out of the fruit bowl.
Six years ago, Ms. Warren was one of the few guests at a Harvard Law School faculty reception for Barack Obama, an alumnus then running for a United States Senate seat in Illinois. He greeted her with two words: “predatory lending,” signaling he knew her work. He began to talk about dicey mortgages and abusive credit products and their shattering effect on families, Ms. Warren recalled. Finally, she cut him off.
“You had me at ‘predatory lending,’ ” she said. A few years later, Mr. Obama was promoting her idea for a consumer agency on the presidential campaign trail.
Meanwhile, in October 2008, Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, called out of the blue and asked Ms. Warren to head Congressional oversight of the bank bailout. It was a vague job, sketched out in a hurry, but she interpreted her mandate aggressively. Instead of issuing standard monthly reports, she turned them into independent research projects, bulletins and videos asking pointed questions about Treasury’s treatment of the banks.
At the same time, banking lobbyists and other business-financed groups threw their weight against the consumer agency proposal — and they complained about Ms. Warren as well. (Wayne Abernathy, a lobbyist for the American Bankers Association, declined to comment for this article but recently asked if the TARP oversight panel had become “the new Warren commission.”)
“She comes at the world from the perspective that she knows what’s good for people,” said Douglas Baird, from University of Chicago Law School, who said he shared Ms. Warren’s concerns but not always her views. “She starts with a skepticism of markets and a skepticism of the ability of consumers to make sensible choices.”
The TARP project also complicated Ms. Warren’s ties to the Obama administration. The president lights up when her consumer protection ideas are discussed, according to Diana Farrell, deputy director of the National Economic Council. Likewise, David Axelrod, a White House senior adviser, effused about Ms. Warren in an interview by phone, using the word “passionate” over and over.
Her relationship with Treasury is chillier. In private, she has worked closely with some officials there on regulatory reform. But in her oversight role, she pounds the agency, leading some to accuse her of showboating or breeding cynicism about a program functioning better than many expected.
“I’m a thorn in this administration’s side as much as in the last administration’s side,” she said.
She will not comment on whether she might head the agency, for the same reason administration officials will not. “What we’re trying to do is build an institution that’s over and above any individual,” Ms. Farrell said.
Ms. Warren does say that if she and the administration lose on the agency’s passage, she’d like them to lose big — to force lawmakers, as she puts it, to leave “lots of blood and teeth” on the floor.
If that happens, Ms. Warren will still have her own platform, starting with her nearly constant stream of television appearances. Hosts and cameramen love her: she has the friendly face of a teacher, the pedigree of a top law professor, the moral force of a preacher and the plain-spoken twang of an Oklahoman.
“This is America’s middle class,” she recently said on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart.” “We’ve hacked at it and pulled at it and chipped at it for 30 years now, and now there’s no more to do. We fix this problem going forward, or the game really is over.”
“When you say it like that and you look at me like that, I know your husband is backstage, I still want to make out with you,” Mr. Stewart responded.
If no agency or government post materializes, Ms. Warren says she will happily return to Harvard. Others expect her to do more, including Eliot Spitzer, the former New York governor who has come to know her through their shared interest in consumer advocacy.
“Plan B is to become Ralph Nader,” he said.
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