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On the campus of Yale University, in 1970, an “odd couple,” HillaryRodham and Bill (“Bubba”) Clinton, came together at a Mark Rothkoexhibit at the Yale Art Museum. Before the end of that rainy afternoon,they had formed an unbreakable bond forged while they rested on theseat of a Henry Moore sculpture.They were from completely different worlds—he, a populist from apoverty-stricken background in Arkansas; she, a former “GoldwaterGirl” and conservative Republican gradually moving into the liberalcamp.As he sat beside her, holding her hand, she gazed into the eyes of this210-pound, orange-bearded “Viking,” tall and scruffy looking, withan Elvis drawl. He’d later jokingly claim, “I identified with Elvis sinceboth of us had hillbilly peckers.”Freshly emerged from Wellesley College, with its “coven of lesbians,”she was a budding feminist—pimply faced, wearing no makeup butwith Mr. Magoo eyeglasses, and walking around on chubby legs. Hehad all the pretty women he wanted. What he was looking for was awoman with a “sense of strength and self-possession—all in all, thatafternoon, I knew I’d found my Evita.”He confided to her that since the age of seven, he had only one abidingambition—and that was to be the President of the United States. Hepromised her, “If elected, I will pave the way for you to become thefirst woman president. You can follow after my administration.” Heheld out the prospect of making her the most powerful woman on theplanet. As she recalled, “I was giddy with emotion.”Their trail to the White House began in Arkansas, with Hillary helpingdirect her sex-crazed Bubba into the governor’s seat. “With my backup,he pursued his dream while I was also chasing a dream of my own.Women can dream harder than any man—in fact, being what they are,I don’t understand why women don’t turn lesbian.”Through the tides of the wars to come, both Hillary and Bill learnedthat love was a creature of many faces, with ever-changing rules andcompromises on the road to their horizon. Often threatening divorce,she remained at his side, interpreting his affairs as minor annoyances.On their stormy seas, they sailed through triumph and tragedy,setbacks and comebacks, the good years and the bad ones, bimboeruptions, serial infidelities, near bankruptcy with crippling legalbills, impeachment, the stockpiling of post-Presidential millions, andsurviving vitriolic scorn that rivaled that of Dr. Goebbels against theJews. They faced maddening failures and stunning achievements, theirlove and loyalty enduring through hurricane winds.She was at his side as the sex-crazed Arkansas Bubba became thenotorious “Slick Willie,” eventually morphing into one of the world’s most admired senior statesmen.