Before Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham exchanged their marriage vows, they exchanged their political vows. In the early 1970s, they agreed on an audacious goal for themselves: to remake the Democratic Party and capture the presidency for him within two decades.
This "20 year project" came out of the mouth of Bill Clinton. He said it to Leon Panetta, then his chief of staff, aboard Air Force One in the fall of 1996. Panetta had asked the president why he had...
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