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HRC's First Lady schedules to be released

Posted: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 1:15 PM by Mark Murray

From NBC's Jeannie Ohm and Mark Murray
The National Archives has announced that it will be releasing tomorrow Hillary Clinton's schedules as First Lady.

Below is the press release from the National Archives...

The William J. Clinton Presidential Library and the National Archives will open 11,046 pages of First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's White House schedules. These Presidential records will be made available in the Clinton Library research room and to the press on CDs on the day of the opening. These records will also be posted on the Clinton Library website http://www.clintonlibrary.gov/ as soon as possible.

These schedules are from the First Lady's Staff files of Patti Solis Doyle, Special Assistant to the President and Director of Scheduling for the First Lady. Doyle was responsible for the First Lady's schedule from 1993 to 1998, and then assumed additional responsibilities as Director of Advance for the First Lady throughout the rest of the Clinton Administration. Arranged chronologically, these records document in detail the activities of the First Lady, including meetings, trips, speaking engagements and social activities for the eight years of the Clinton Administration. 

This file series includes schedules for 2,888 days. Clinton Library archivists processing these records subsequently determined that schedules for 32 days were not included in this series; however, schedules for 27 of those days have now been located, and will be processed as soon as possible.  

Of the 11,046 pages of schedules that are being opened, 4,746 have redactions. The majority of the redactions pertain to the privacy interests of third parties, including their social security numbers, telephone numbers, and home addresses. In addition, schedules for the first 19 days in January 1993, prior to the inauguration of President Clinton and prior to Mrs. Clinton's tenure as First Lady, have been closed in full in accordance with the Presidential Records Act. Researchers will find occasional unusual text formatting and in some cases final schedules as well as "revised final" schedules. Specific dates can be viewed on the CD by selecting view and bookmark on your Adobe toolbar.

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Who cares? She's not worth vetting.
This will just make barry look for something else to cry about. Better hurry up those taxes for him. I couldn't care less about them....I just want you for our president. Keep fighting Hillary he's diging his own hole.
Cool, now what about those taxes?
Excellent!!!

Now we will be able to verify some of the claims to experience.

Thanks to the Archives! Now we need the Clintons to release everything else.
That's cute HRC, but that's not what we want.  Nice attempt at yet more smoke & mirrors though.

Where are the DONOR lists for the Clinton Library, and when will the be made available???????????
About time, next the taxes
"These schedules are from the First Lady's Staff files of Patti Solis Doyle, Special Assistant to the President and Director of Scheduling for the First Lady."

Does anyone know is this the same woman who she fired that was running her campaign?
4700+ redactions?!  They have to be kidding!  Well this a somewhat haphazard start at transparency but I never thought even this would happen.  Now, "We the People" would like to see those tax returns (undoctored of course) and a list of the library donors.  It is not that difficult to get copies of tax returns so please stop stalling.
Get to it, press.  
What a joke. I'm sure that it will reveal more of her so called experience. If her experience is based on her time in the White House then one of the Bush girls is also qualified to become POTUS
How convenient that there would be a memo stating the release of these schedules after Obama's speach.  Seems to me that someone felt they had to do something to cut-off the speach that Obama just gave.

Why was there not a press release yesterday.  

Will National Archives be releasing Hillary's tax returns?
Very smart move by Sen. Clinton. The next 5 (plus) weeks is all about dominating the news cycle, and this is just what she needed to do to take over the 'big story,' yet again.
Message to Mark Penn and Howard Wolfson:

Gentlemen, start your spin-gines.
Geez, it's about freakin' time.  Now where are the tax returns?
Who? I say "WHO?" if not Obama, can bring us together.

He is our one great "HOPE" to end divisiveness!

If only you, that hold prejudice in your heart, can forive and rid yourself of arrogance--and LEARN--to hope once again!

The greatest trait of LEADERSHIP IS LOYALTY! Family, God, and Country...sound familiar!  Most soldier's know this.

I say if not Obama--then who?  Give the man credit--where credit is due!
So we get to evalutate her "experience"!!!

This should be good.
Where o where could those tax records be, o where o where could they be?

Important Note:

"11,046 pages of schedules that are being opened, 4,746 have redactions. The majority of the redactions pertain to the privacy interests of third parties, including their social security numbers, telephone numbers, and home addresses."

Ok so 43% of the files contain redactions. The MAJORITY of which pertain to privacy interests.

What are the MINORITY of those redactions composed of?

Keep in mind that a majority is more than 50%, so up to 2,400 pages could have redactions that fall in the minority. It is important that they explain this minority of redactions as well

Does this mean that we do not have the NAMES of the people she had meetings with?
This should be fun.
Makes sense- after Obama's 'huge speech'- the Clinton campaign needs something big to take the focus of the positives of the Obama speech

Go figure- Hillary is political even when being transparent

Obama '08
Translation: Clinton has revised or "sliced and diced", "cut and pasted", "added and subtracted", almost every word in these records to benefit her own best interests. And we know what that is, don't we???
It's about time. Now, where are those tax returns? They are the most important. (And guess what -- we can find ours in a lot less than several months!)
That's a start,now how about those tax-returns,libaray contributors,and the Peter Paul campaign scam with Ed Rendell,Ted Srickland,Terry McCaullif,and your family all named in this case,I would like to know .
And they will read like a Readers Digest condensed book
In other words, Patty Solis Doyle has spent the past 4 weeks since she left the campaign sanitizing the schedule so that it can be presented in the most favorable light.
So what, she should have released them before this point.  She has only been thinking about running for president since Bill's presidency ended.  

Good move on her part to over shadow Obama's speech about what's plaguing America.  

Let her keep them. We know what type of person she is.  Hummm, where's scbrown, patty, john doe and her other negative surrogates.  

They know her record so good and her marvelous deeds, they shouldn't need the records to tell us how great she is.  (Nails on the chalkboard).
this should be somewhat intreasting but i doubt hrc would relaese anything that would hurt her but on the other hand she is known for shooting herself in the foot time and time again. in the end thanks for the token.
Moneygall is Offaly pleased with Obama connection

... one of the leading candidates for the presidency has roots in the Faithful County. Research has revealed that Barack Obama, an Illinois senator and Democrat hopeful for the 2008 presidential elections, is descended from a shoemaker in Moneygall, Co Offaly.

Previous investigations had indicated that Obama's third great-grandfather on his mother's side, Fulmuth Kearney, had emigrated from Ireland to the United States in 1850. Obama's father, Barack Obama snr, was a goat-herder from Kenya, while his mother, Ann Dunham, is from Kansas. The 45-year-old senator was born in Hawaii in 1961 and is battling Hillary Clinton, among others, to be the Democratic candidate for next year's elections...

Fulmuth Kearney (19) sailed from Ireland to New York in 1850...

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/frontpage/2007/0503/1178025880892.html
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Barack Obama Iowa Victory party in Moneygall, Ireland
http://youtube.com/watch?v=h9GPU3g7VSM

Obama's Irish Roots (ITN)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4wZuEnoEZU&NR=1



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BARACK IN SCRANTON, PA 3/17

Before he arrived Monday, his supporters added a shamrock-shaped apostrophe to campaign signs between the first two letters of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama’s last name.
The apostrophe was designed to give the senator an Irish flavor to match the weekend’s festivities.
Who knew he really is part Irish?
Mr. Obama, with a dark jacket but a green tie, told a crowd of 500 at the Society of Irish Women dinner at the Radisson at Lackawanna Station hotel that he recently found an ancestor of Irish descent...
The dinner stop was part of Mr. Obama's first campaign visit to Scranton, the third in a series by the major Democratic presidential contenders, and another sign of the frenzied campaigning sure to inundate the region and state before the April 22 primary election.
... "Drinks are on me," Mr. Obama shouted as he entered the Franklin Avenue bar and restaurant through the rear door.
... After an hour at a private forum with veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars at Whistles Pub and Eatery, Mr. Obama spoke for only 10 minutes at the dinner.
... Mr. Obama said he favors having a federal system that helps struggling veterans rejoin society, including transitional housing.
If elected, Mr. Obama said he'll strive to secure screening for [post-traumatic stress] disorder before soldiers arrive home, boost the number of VA counselors and sensitize battle commanders.
"Until the administration sends a message that this is important and the top brass sends a message that this is important, it probably doesn't get done," he said. "The notion that you wouldn't have service available to you is inexcusable."
... Inside, Mr. Obama noted St. Patrick's escape from slavery, and compared his family's story to that of Irish Americans.
"A distant homeland, a journey across an ocean in search of opportunity, a determination to grab hold of hope and the American dream," he said.
"Here in Scranton, Irish Americans overcame the signs that read, 'No Irish need apply' and 'No Irish allowed," he said. "Through hard work and determination the Irish thrived."
"There's a reason why America identifies so strongly with St. Patrick. It's a story in believing in things unseen, making that leap of reality."

http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/site/index.cfm?newsid=19400818&BRD=2185&PAG=461&dept_id=590572&rfi=8
video
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1155399824/bctid1460796292
You people complain whatever Hillary Clinton does. Makes me wonder if you all are afraid that she is telling us the truth about her experience and this will make Obama and his campaign look foolish.

I also did not feel his speech today was anything special.  Same old thing.  I am a black female and I am not angry as Obama made it sound for all blacks. He is just using reasons to excuse his POOR JUDGEMENT.
“Not this time.”

When you stop to think about it, these simple words may turn out to be the most brilliant three words ever uttered in American politics.  They will stand like a barrier to any who try to cross the line of racial divisiveness.  Whenever anyone says a black person cannot be elected president, we answer “not this time.”  Whenever anyone tries to blame their own economic problems or other woes on minority groups, we answer “not this time.”  Whenever someone tries to smear a candidate with personal attacks, we say “not this time.”  And whenever some other right-wing pundit opens his mouth to say something stupid about Barack Obama, we should all answer resoundingly …

“Not this time.”

Please, six years Tax Returns and Donors lists.
What do you expect, she can't comment on the biggest event of the day and she has to put her name out there someway.

I'd say it's small in comparisson but it is what it is.

It's a START.
 So Clintonesque, by the way, to sneak them out
while all are riveted to Sen. Obama speaking on something important.

 
I'm curious about what is included in the 32 days that were not included - I'll be curious to see what the 27 days- when they are released - reveal...what is held back may be more revealing than what is released...and when the missing records are released will be interesting. Also - have these been redacted in any way?

It will be interesting...
I bet Hillary and Bill ordered them released hoping they would hide under the gunfire that Obama has been recently taking from the press.  

Well, Hillary, Obama overwhelmingly passed his test today. Can you?  Should be fun.

The Unabridged version? Edited version?

Anyone vouch for the integrity of the documents and their content?

I bet these could eventually make the NY Times Fiction Bestseller list.
Well I guess it takes a great speech by OBAMA to get HILLARY to do something to try to WIN the days news cycle.  She is so boring, predictable and old school.
mmm....maybe the schedules for those 27 days will end up on the table in the White House...miraculously!  We probably won't see those reports until after the election.
 Oh great. Clinton documents, that they've stalled and stalled to release, that were originally kept by
Patti Solis Doyle. Yeah, these'll have historical integrity.  Here we go again.
Whether you LIKE Hillary or not, we KNOW way more about her and what she would do as a politician than about Obama. Obama's wifes college thesis was about black separation and her understanding why blacks separate from rich white people.  She can honestly say that this election "is the first time in her life when she's been really proud to be an American"?  Obama and wife go to a church which "damns America" while promoting strong black communities.  Clinton's baggage has all been thouroughly examined but Obama's dirty laundry is just starting to spill out.  You know the speach but you don't KNOW the man.
She's already been vetted.. time and time again!
BUT OBAMA?  Ohh, not everything has come out YET.

ATTENTION ALL SWIFTBOATERS OUT THERE !!

Get your wallets out boys!!  The waters are going to be real smooth sailing for ya in the fall!
Chuck:

This is all getting very tiresome. The Obama speech is over and we will now await for a few more superdelegates to announce their endorsements of Obama over the next few days.

But just to make it clear. Could you please post once again those delegate leads that Obama has and your comments as to how it is impossible for Hillary to catch Obama even if she wins PA and was awarded the Michigan and Florida votes. Is it not a pretty far gone conclusion that once all the primarys have been concluded that Obama will most likely end up at the convention with a delegate lead of 200 - 250. And do you really expect the uncommitted superdeleagtes not to throw in with Obama with that kind of lead?
Unable to attack what was a thoughtful, intelligent speech, Hillary does the next best thing: Grabs the media spotlight and focuses it back on her.  

There really is nothing she won't do to win.  It's sad.
That's cute. I wonder how much she paid off staffers to redact other things -- she was implicated in stealing FBI files in the past.

Why is she still hiding her taxes and her link to a 1.2 million dollar campaign finance fraud felony, which is right now, currently, being subpoenaed in LA courts?

She's a piece of work.

THE manchurian candidate for the GOP. Do other people NOT realize that. Between her creepy religious ties to Samuel Brownbeck and Joe Lieberman through the evangelical cult she's in to her very odd voting patterns and her one-time republicanism, that should be a no-brainer.

Too bad voters are hecka dumb.

You should add "literacy" to your voting exit polls. Many Americans are illiterate. I think they constitute the entire populace of Hill's crumbling electorate.

Why does she have to be so much like Bette Davis as Baby Jane? Depressing for women.

the difference between Haggee/McCain and Wright/Obama, is that you cannot choose who supports You, however you can choose who you support and who you choose as a mentor and spiritual advisor.
everyone is asking for this crap and now the ones asking are like who cares. MAybe it will prove some of her experience. And since the clinton library is releasing these records in conjunction with the archives i doubt there will be any fodder for you obamaites.
Ace Ventura writes:
Roger Redactor; Hillary, it just won't cut it...just more of the same old obscuration.  This seems like the half-hearted release of files from the Rose Law Firm.
Obama '08  
Okay. I'm getting pretty sick of the arrogance of some of the posters on this blog who have no brains about most of what they are writing. When you are a professional person meeting with other people, you CANNOT just freely reveal private things about those people. So though the public (mainly obamaheads) are clamoring for Senator Clinton to be transparent, that doesn't mean she can't break the law in terms of other people's rights to privacy. As a psychologist, I cannot reveal my patient list, much less anything about those patients. My husband is a nurse, and he cannot even tell me when he gets home that a friend of ours is in the hospital if he happens to see him/her there. While you may think you have a right as a voter to know what all Senator Clinton did while she was First Lady, that right does not extend to the people with whom she was meeting. That is just the reality of our right to privacy laws. Do you realize that in a library they don't even have library cards in the back of books anymore so that you won't be able to see that so-and-so checked out a certain book. So some of you just need to chill and shut your pie holes about stuff you don't have a clue about. How would you feel if a friend of yours were running for public office and and suddenly every time you were together and what was discussed became public record. Does that sound like a great idea to you? And it doesn't matter anyway. What do you think is going to be in those records? Some incladestine meeting with the Ku Klux Klan? Let's get real. It's all politics. Anti Clintonites will take whatever is in there and figure out a way to make some of it look bad for her. She's been in this game long enough to know how that works and I'm sure she's ready for it. The Archivists are the people that have to worry about whether they're illegally revealing private information about third parties--WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW. Wake up nerd heads.
No Seth  Hillary happened to work with two woman with the same name.  DUH


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