Something Lost, Something Gained Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty

on July 21st, 2024, when Joe Biden announced that he was dropping out of the presidential race and endorsing Kamala Harris, the dream of seeing a woman in the office was suddenly back within reach.

it wouldn't be me, but it could be Kamala. History beckoned, but a whole lot of bigotry, fear and disinformation, not to mention the Electoral College, stood in the way.

I'm going to need your help.

we'll do whatever you need.

I don't want to sugarcoat what we're up against, especially at a moment when all of us need to be ready to fight back, not just for Kamala but for our better selves and an optimistic, generous vision of our future.

Hulu is passing on Hillary Clinton series, Radham. Clara Danes and Dakota Fanning were to star as 20th Century TV is shopping the project around.

All of this is based upon the 2020 New York Times bestseller which imagined an alternative universe in which Hillary Rodham met and dated Bill Clinton but never married him.

Instead, in the life Clinton really led, she goes on to thrive as a Northwestern University professor and launches an eventual presidential run real world events such as rape accusations against Bill Clinton and Donald Trump play out in the novel but in vastly altered ways.

I'm just going to go out on a limb and say that she would not even be in politics without Bill Clinton.

I just think that she's a terrible politician.

On July 21st, 2024, when Joe Biden announced he was dropping out of the presidential race and endorsing Kamala Harris, the dream of seeing a woman in the Oval Office was suddenly back within reach.

She is talented, experienced and ready to be president.

She told us she wanted to earn the nomination. I'm going to need your help, she said. We'll do whatever you need, I told her.

After I got off the phone with the vice president, I looked at Bill with a huge smile and said, this is exciting. I felt promise. I felt possibility. It was exhilarating.

When I imagine Kamala standing before the Capitol next January, taking the oath of office as our first woman president, my heart leaps.

On July 21st, 2024, when Joe Biden announced he was dropping out of the presidential race and endorsing Kamala Harris, the dream of seeing a woman in the Oval Office was suddenly back within reach.

She is talented, experienced and ready to be president.

I'm going to need your help, she said.

History is full of cautionary tales, but 2024 is not 2016.

After I got off the phone with the vice president, I looked at Bill with a huge smile and said, this is exciting. I felt promise. I felt possibility. It was exhilarating.

It's a defining moment for our country and the world and I have a very acute sense of history, my own role in it but more importantly the choices we're making now and I want to lift up other people, particularly other women as I write about in the book who at both come before our act of now and those who will come later.

I tell the story, you know, in the book of learning about the conviction I was actually in the last stages of editing this book and exchanging, you know, pages with my uh colleagues who were working with me and I put my phone down and turned it off because I just literally had to get these pages done and then when I finished I picked it up to see what was going on in the world saw the convictions and I got terrified because you know.

In the book, in a chapter called White Scarves, I detail the effort that I, an wonderful network predominantly women in our country, but also countries around the world undertook to evacuate and save these women.

I knew it was going to happen. So I knew that we had to be prepared to move quickly and we began to acquire email addresses and cell phones and what's app and signal contacts for as many women on the list as we could.

He did personally direct his then attorney general sessions to reopen investigations into me. He did direct his secretaries at stake first tillerson than Pompeo to reopen investigations into me.