Hillary met with Saul Alinsky several times in 1968, when she was writing her thesis. In her most recent memoir, Hillary wrote that she rejected a job offer from Alinsky to instead attend law school.
Hillary’s relationship with radical community organizer has long been the subject of speculation and intrigue. The interest has been largely fueled by her suppressed and later released 92-page senior thesis “There is only the Fight” for Wellesley College offering an extensive, largely positive critique of Alinsky and his work.
Hillary actually played a role in the Watergate saga, and her actions as a young attorney may have set the tone for her career.
As a 27-year-old House Judiciary committee staff attorney, Hillary was fired from the staff of the House Judiciary committee investigating the Watergate scandal in 1974. She was fired by her supervisor, lifelong Democrat Jerry Zeifman, who called her a liar and much worse.
“She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer,” he said. “She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.”
Zeifman also refused to give Hillary a letter of recommendation, making her one of only three employees he snubbed during his 17-year career.
In 1975, Hillary defended a 41-year-old, who had been accused of raping a 12-year-old child. In unearthed recordings she almost boasts of knowing of her client’s guilt and laughing about the case. The tapes reveal her discussing the case of Thomas Alfred Taylor, then 41, who was accused of raping the 12-year-old in Springdale, Arkansas, on May 10, 1975.
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I am actually old enough to remember when Hillary Rodham was fired from the Watergate Committee staff. It was a very minor story and I didn't give it much thought because nobody had ever heard of Hillary Rodham and I didn't think it was a big event. I remember it because, along with the story, there was a photo of her and I thought she certainly looked smarmy or entitled or something not right. I can't remember if it was in Time, US News and World Report, but it was something similar.
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