New York, NY –
Sen. Hillary Clinton's schedules from when she was First Lady were released by the national archives today and they suggest early signs Clinton was considering a run for Senate in February of 1999. WNYC's Andrea Bernstein reports.
Already by the beginning of that February, rumors of a Clinton Senate bid were swirling, and she began to add an increasing number of New York visits to her schedule.
On February 12, President Bill Clinton was acquitted of impeachment charges by the U.S. Senate. A week later, Hillary Clinton's schedule shows, she was meeting at the White House with key Democrats: New York Sen. Charles Schumer, U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey, and then-Sen. Robert Torricelli.
At the time, Toricelli was head of the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee and Lowey was the candidate most widely believed to be poised to succeed Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who left office in 2000 and died in 2003. Clinton announced her candidacy for Moynihan's seat in June of that year. For WNYC, I'm Andrea Bernstein.
Award–winning journalist Andrea Bernstein is the Director of the public radio Transportation Nation project, a partnership with WNYC, The Takeaway, Marketplace, WAMU (Washington, DC), WMFE (Orlando), KUHF (Houston), YPR (Montana and Wyoming), and KALW (San Francisco). She is also a regular guest–host on the Brian Lehrer show.
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