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FIRST LADY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
REMARKS TO THE CONGRESSIONAL CLUB
WASHINGTON, DC
DECEMBER 1, 1994
[Acknowledgements: Trish Lott, Delores Beilenson, Janice
Gallegley (Guh-LEG-lee), and incoming president Mary Clement, who
may or not be there]
I'd like to begin by welcoming all of you who are new to
Washington and to say how honored I am to be with you today.
I imagine that you are still getting oriented to this city -
- not just figuring out where Northeast ends and Southeast starts
-- but also adjusting to the rhythms of the place, which are
quite unlike anywhere else.
When I moved here two years ago from a much quieter, more
low-key place and I had no idea what to expect, a friend offered
a few words of advice: "Don't buy a glass house," my friend said.
"Don't get your hair cut. And remember if you're in the
Congressional dining room and you want pork, never ask for it by
name. Tell them you'd like 'infrastructure and investment."
There is a growing lore about political spouses in
Washington, some of which is based on fact and some of which is
pure fiction. You probably remember that when she was married to
Senator Warner, Elizabeth Taylor described her role as being akin
to living in "hot fudge." Others have lamented lack of time with
their husbands or wives, the constant media scrutiny, the
artifice of living in a city so dominated by the federal
government.
But that's a selective portrait. The good news, and I think
I can say this from my own experiences as a political spouse in a
new and sometimes very strange city, is that each person finds
her or his own way of adjusting and staying true to themselves.
After all, congressional spouses run the gamut from Cabinet
Secretaries [Elizabeth Dole], to homemakers, volunteers, lawyers,
doctors, teachers, lobbyists and everything in between.
In her book, A Woman's Place, Marjorie Margolies-Mesvinsky
talks about a unique set of circumstances, taking place over 20
years, in which she and her husband both played the role of
Member and spouse. Her husband served in Congress from 1972 to
1976; two decades later she was elected, and it was his turn to
be the Washington spouse.
And this proves that there really is no formula, no
prescription for these roles because no two spouses come here
with precisely the same interests or past experiences.
[You might want to tell about your admiration for Jackie
Kennedy moving into the White House at such a young age, how she
had no one to advise her, etc. and compare it to your first
experiences in the governor's mansion in Arkansas].
The hardest thing for all of us, I think, is to ensure that
the pace of Washington and the demands on our spouses don't
undermine our personal obligations and responsibilities. I was
given lots of advice about how to guard against unnecessary
intrusions into family life and I'm grateful for the advice I
got.
What you'll find, if you're a parent, is that your children
will remain your top priority. If a parent is ill, helping them
get better will take precedence over everything else. And thanks
to AT&T, Sprint, MCI or whatever long-distance carrier you use,
your friendships back home will survive intact.
Ultimately, there are two ways to look at life in
Washington: as a series of obstacles, or a series of
opportunities. And I think the latter is closer to the mark.
The reason your spouses, and my spouse, are here, is
because they care about serving the people who elected them and
they care about making our country a better place.
Whether we are Democrats or Republicans, Midwesterners or
Southerners, newcomers to the political world or veterans of it,
we all want to help our spouses succeed in their jobs.
And we all want to do what we can to ensure that our
children and all the children in America have secure futures.
That is an issue that transcends parties and ideologies and it's
what drives us as mothers and fathers, as aunts and uncles, as
friends and neighbors.
So as much as Washington can be dislocating, confusing, and
downright different, it offers each of us a unique opportunity to
contribute. No matter how you define your role as a congressional
spouse, you will play a part in shaping our nation's future. And
that is a very exciting prospect.
I wish all of you well. And I look forward to getting to
know each of you better and exchanging stories and ideas with you
in the months ahead.
[Q + A]
###
DORIS /
FRIDAY - all Democrate /some who Cost
Part 6 family
Thursday - every 2 yrs orientation
(Bipartisan) - a lot of Republicans
- emphasize - all here = Wast,
w/y Logether
- breast camer
- politics shop at front door
- Wash coupay Lowr
< 2 or 3 men>
item
Congressional spouses Berman, Gingrich and Emerson:
like their peers, many of whom also have successful careers, they face a no-win situation
in the capital, where they are rarely seen and often ignored
Nation
the capital, it is not surprising that others
I'm Nobody, Who Are You?
have a hard time. Says Berman: "You are
typecast as unimportant, and you have
maybe 30 seconds in any encounter to
Washington wives have one basic career path-their husbands'
overcome that." Berman says she gave up
her job as acting director of the California
BY MARGARET CARLSON
initiated the Wright inquiry, is herself be-
Museum of Science and Industry to move
ing scrutinized for her role in promoting
to Washington after her husband was
A
wife newly arrived in Washing-
Gingrich's book Window of Opportunity.
elected in 1982. "At an orientation for
ton knows life has changed for the
Part book (co-authored by a science fic-
congressional spouses, there was a lecture
worse when she attends her first cocktail
tion writer), part polemic, part tax shelter,
on how to live with a celebrity. I wanted
party and the photographer asks her to
Window lost money for its investors, but
to stand up and say, 'Wait a minute, I used
step aside while he snaps a picture. For
earned the Gingriches $12,018 in royal-
to be a celebrity.'
Janis Berman, wife of California Con-
ties and Mrs. Gingrich $11,500 in salary.
Although many congressional wives
gressman Howard Berman, the initiation
When asked about this at a press confer-
work (there are no husbands in the Sen-
was even ruder. She called several weeks
ence last week, Marianne stomped out in
ate, a handful in the House), finding a job
in advance to tell the hostess of a party
tears.
can be difficult. Says Emerson: "Unless
welcoming the Bermans to the capital
A congressional spouse should have a
an employer is looking for special access
that she would be stuck in Los Angeles
leg up socially and professionally; instead
through you, you just look like trouble-
that day. After ascertaining that the Con-
it is like having one foot shot off. "No one
someone who will want all congressional
gressman would be in town, the hostess
takes you seriously if they bother with you
recesses off, will have to travel back to the
briskly told Berman, "That's O.K. We'll
at all," says Jo Ann Emerson, wife of Mis-
district to campaign on weekends, and
just go ahead without you."
souri Congressman Bill Emerson and
might not be here two years later if your
Betty Wright has a different-and
deputy communications director of the
husband loses." Heather Foley, wife of
more serious-problem. Although the
National Republican Congressional
Majority Leader Tom Foley, solved the
wife of Speaker Jim Wright says she has a
Committee. In Washington ignoring most
problem by taking a job-gratis-in her
head for business, the House ethics com-
of the women at a cocktail party is consid-
husband's office.
mittee could find little evidence that she
ered an efficient use of networking time.
That's one way to see your spouse.
used it in her $18,000-a-year job with
Let John Warner and Elizabeth Taylor
Emily Malino, wife of New York Con-
Mallightco, the company founded by the
walk into a room, and all the suits head
gressman James Scheuer, complains,
Wrights and Fort Worth businessman
toward the Virginia Senator. Taylor de-
"Staff members want all of your husband.
George Mallick. Lawyers like a paper
scribes her three lonely years as a con-
They'll schedule on weekends, birthdays
trail; they uncovered no reports, no cor-
gressional wife as a kind of hot fudge hell.
and
iversaries. One wife recom-
respondence, no notes of telephone con-
Food-lots of it-substituted for having a
mends working in the office as marriage
versations, no investment analyses" by
life. She blew up to 180 lbs.; Halston de-
insurance. "With adoring staff all around,
Mrs. Wright. The committee suspects
signed caftans for her. "Not only is a Sen-
your husband might not want to come
Betty Wright's job of being a conduit for
ator's wife not heard, she's pretty much
home to reality."
$145,000 in cash and gifts to the Speaker.
not seen," Taylor complained.
Like Betty Wright, most Washington
Marianne Gingrich, whose husband
If one of the most famous women in
wives are invisible until their principal.
Newt is the House Minority Whip who
the world cannot make a life for herself in
gets in trouble. Pat Nixon held the title for
TIME, MAY 8, 1989
29
Nation
most stoic wife until Maureen
Dean gave an Oscar-winning
performance during her hus-
DIANA WALKER
kos' $12 billion oil pipeline.
Some couples reduce po-
tential conflicts by both work-
band's Watergate testimony,
ing for the government, an ar-
sitting primly behind him,
rangement the checks and
blond hair pulled back, hold-
balances of the Constitution
ing the Nancy Reagan gaze
did not contemplate. When
before there was a Nancy
Elizabeth Dole was Transpor-
Reagan gaze. Former Attor-
tation Secretary, the couple
ney General John Mitchell's
made intragovernmental his-
wife Martha took to telephon-
tory when she testified before
ing reporters and was forcibly
husband Robert Dole, then
sedated. Rita Jenrette, whose
Senate finance chairman, on
husband John was convicted
"Alternatives to Tax on Use
for taking bribes in Abscam,
of Heavy Trucks." The sub-
used her 15 minutes of celebri-
ject matter renders plausible
ty to pose in Playboy, reveal
his protestations that there
that she and John had known
was no after-hours collusion
each other very well on the
The Doles at her swearing-in: no collusion between the branches
between the executive and
steps of the Capitol and land a
legislative branches of the
role in Hollywood's Zombie Island
switched to an administrative job. "I'm
marriage. "When you get home at 8:30,
Massacre.
sensitive to conflicts," says Dingell. "For-
the last thing you want to do is get into
Many Washington jobs raise conflict-
tunately, GM is large enough that I could
business." It is equally unlikely that Com-
of-interest questions. When Barbara Mor-
change jobs."
modity Futures Trading Commission
ris Lent took a job as a lobbyist for
Several spouses have got into Betty
Chairman Wendy Gramm and her hus-
NYNEX, her husband, Congressman
Wright-like trouble. In 1976 Marion Ja-
band Senator Phil Gramm, famed for the
Norman Lent, sought approval of the eth-
vits, wife of the late Senator Jacob Javits,
Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit limits,
ics committee to vote on telephone legis-
had to forgo a lucrative contract with
ponder the line-item veto during their off
lation. Lawyer Marc Miller, author of
Iran Air. In 1984 Oregon Senator Mark
hours.
Politicians and their Spouses' Careers,
Hatfield's wife Antoinette ran into trou-
Elizabeth Taylor coped with Wash-
says, "Full disclosure and making sure the
ble when Greek businessman Basil Tsa-
ington by leaving the city and the Senator.
spouse got the job for her own talents help
kos paid her $55,000 for decorating his
Berman has stuck it out and may eventu-
resolve the conflict." When Debbie Din-
apartment, which seemed like a lot
ally get sweet revenge. Her tack is the
gell. a lobbyist for General Motors. mar-
for choosing fabric swatches and paint
mighty pen: working at home, she has
ried Energy and Commerce Committee
chips, while her husband was simulta-
sold to CBS a tell-all television series titled
Chairman John Dingell in 1981, she
neously urging federal support for Tsa-
Inside Capitol Hill.
Grapevine
LOSING ISN'T EVERYTHING.
UNITED STATES
trying to force a vote by the
When Pennsylvania Senator John
N.A.A.C.P.'s full 65-member board
Heinz was invited to take on the
to overrule the committee and en-
nation's First Tennis Player in
dorse Lucas.
a doubles match at the White
House, his staff advised, "Let him
Department
A FRIEND IN NEED. Congress-
win." Heinz, however, has too
Of
man Donald ("Buz") Lukens,
much pride in his game to roll
over. He and his partner, TV pro-
Justice
Ohio Republican, is facing the
sort of scandal that could destroy
ducer Dorrance Smith, wiped out
Building
a politician's career: he is accused
the President and aide David
of having sex with a 16-year-old
Bates in straight sets. The score is
girl. But G.O.P. heavyweights are
a state secret. So is the answer to
still in Lukens' corner. At a $100-
the question Will Heinz be invited
a-head reception last week, party
back?
Lucas: A victim of Coleman Young's long memory?
loyalists, including Ed Rollins and
Charles Black, collected $10,000
CIVIL STRUGGLE. Why did the N.A.A.C.P.'s executive
for Lukens' defense. His trial begins later this month.
committee come out against the President's choice to head
the Justice Department's civil rights division? Some
QUAYLE DROPPINGS. Upon landing in Pago Pago last
N.A.A.C.P. board members say the opposition has less to do
week, the Vice President remarked to a crowd of Samoans,
with the qualifications of William Lucas, the first black to
"Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been,
run for Governor of Michigan, than with Detroit Mayor
and happy campers you will always be." At a recent Bel-
Coleman Young. Young has never forgiven Lucas for
gian-embassy reception in Washington he declared, per-
switching from the Democratic Party to the G.O.P. in 1985.
haps with tongue in cheek, "I was recently on a tour of
And Young dominates the N.A.A.C.P. Detroit branch,
Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I
which set the stage for the executive committee's stand
didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse
by voting to oppose Lucas. Dissident board members are
with those people."
30
TIME. MAY 8. 1989
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cisely embodied even without the specifici-
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ty of its subtitle, "Memoirs of a Southern Woman."
his thought, Noam Chomsky is arguably the most important
Until accident rearranged all of former Con-
intellectual alive."
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elected, not as sentimental successor, but on her
man from Louisiana Thomas Hale Boggs (only two
own merits, for the next 17 years.
years older than she), was delivering a speech.
As a legislator, she used that same Southern
Rebuffed at the door for being so simply dressed
charm, those same conscious wiles, to accomplish
that she couldn't persuade the guard that she be-
a great deal, particularly on the Appropriations
longed inside, she remembered a friend's conten-
Committee, and especially (though not solely) on
CONSPIRACY?
tion that "the most sophisticated and becoming
behalf of women. For example, to an amendment to
thing a woman could wear was a purple veil." The
the 1974 Equal Credit Opportunity Act, she added
TRUBLAR'S
young Mrs. Boggs returned, newly draped, to
the crucial phrase, "sex or marital status," and
SHINES
launch her career as a belle who knew how to
suggested, in her graceful way, that the omission
BRIGHTLY AS &
manipulate her image to hide quite unfrivolous
had been "an oversight."
intentions.
All this makes an engaging, even a stirring
Thereafter, having put aside her own ambition
story, studded with anecdotes in which she evokes
to be a journalist, Lindy Boggs pulled a strenuous
dozens of memorable characters and campaigns
load as a Congressional wife. Using her unique
and brings her husband to life again. Yet the man-
combination of "confidence and authority and gra-
ner of its telling makes some parts of "Washington
HOLDER N
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ciousness," she became strategic adviser, social
Through a Purple Veil" all too ingratiating, a Bar-
director, behind-the-scenes organizer of many a
bara Bush-esque list of grateful acknowledgments
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canny campaign to advance her husband's liberal
that stops far short of the sound and fury of pitched
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political ideals. Her three children include this
political battle. Given Lindy Boggs's firsthand ex-
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generation's officeholder, Barbara Boggs Sigmund,
perience, she misses many opportunities for a
who at the time of her tragic early death in 1990
deeper level of introspection and honesty about the
was Mayor of Princeton, N.J. The other two are
costs of the delicate dance with power she's done
Cokie Roberts, a National Public Radio and ABC-
her whole life long.
TV correspondent, and Thomas Hale Boggs Jr., a
Whether we are seeing an attempt at candor by
prominent Washington lawyer and lobbyist.
a woman who tends more naturally toward action
than meditation is hard to tell, since for the most
part she stays in character and dances for her
Mrs. Boggs herded recalcitrant workers in
readers as she has for all those others. Garden
BOOK
campaigns and causes into the fold by falling back
party description "delightful" and "beautiful"
on her grandmother's instruction that "you can
and "interesting" wives, a circumspection exempli-
succeed at anything if you give somebody else the
fied by the de rigueur compliment to Pat Nixon for
credit for doing it," and the similarly sly admoni-
"her superior intelligence, her devotion to her hus-
tion of the nuns who taught her as a girl that she
band and her exquisite taste" only reminds us
would do people a favor if she let them contribute to
that well-intentioned habits may die the hardest of
Uncle Duke, with Honey's
a good cause. If these work as well as she says they
all.
help, goes on-line to try to wring a few
do, it's pure unsuspecting vanity that makes the
Such diplomacy has surely served her well, but
more bucks out of the JFK assassination
world (or at least Washington) go round.
it is impossible not to wonder what clearsighted
conspiracy community. The president hands out
No novel could contain higher drama than the
critical wisdom this extraordinary woman is with-
helicopter rides and cuff links for pro-NAFTA votes.
story of Lindy Boggs's husband's disappearance
holding. The purple veil, if it doesn't make vision
Colleges give out A's to boost students' self-esteem.
and presumed death in a flight over Alaska in 1972
hazy, apparently does soften speech. Come to think
It's more brilliant satire from Garry Trudeau, in the
a story she tells beautifully - followed by her
of it, a better title for Lindy Boggs's demonstration
newest collection from his Pulitzer prize-winning
of how her personal and political styles are insepa-
comic chronicle of the U.S.A., In Search of Cigarette
Rosellen Brown's novels include "Civil Wars" and
rable might have been "Caught More Flies With
Holder Man. Paperback, $7.95.
Before and After."
Honey."
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A WOMAN'S PLACE
MARJORIE MARGOLIES-MEZVINSKY
Rostenkowski likes to hang out with some of the women he's com-
needed me. It wasn't like the campaign. It wasn't easy for me to
patible with, not all of them, but those that fit his sort of ethnic kind
make the transition to obscurity. I understood the need and I didn't
of approach."
have any hang-ups about it. But her election was a really, really big
The flip side of the men's club is the dutiful spouse club. Until
change in our lives and we both had to adjust."
recently, its membership was almost solely dutiful wives. Its increas-
My husband, Ed Mezvinsky, has had a different experience from
ing male membership faces its own set of problems. Steve Lowey, a
that of most of the other husbands because he's got something most
successful attorney in New York City and the husband of Congress-
congressional spouses don't have: experience as a congressman. I was
woman Nita Lowey, took a leave of absence and worked full-time
the congressional spouse.
for four and a half months before Nita was elected to Congress in
Ed was a Democratic congressman from Iowa, elected in 1972.
November of 1988. In that campaign cycle, Nita and Jolene Un-
He served for four years, losing his third election. As a freshman, he
soeld, a Democrat from Washington State, were the only two
served on the House Judiciary Committee that voted to impeach
women added to Congress. Steve was the only new congress-
President Nixon. It was a very tumultuous time in our nation's his-
woman's spouse at the 1988 orientation (Jolene is a widow). At the
tory, with the Vietnam War winding down and the Nixon adminis-
wives' orientation, Steve was given a goody bag with perfume and
tration unraveling. So when I come home now each week with
other female items.
stories from the front, he understands. Every now and then, some-
A speaker at the Male Spouses' Orientation Meeting on Decem-
one kids him about being a congressional spouse, but Ed just laughs
ber 4, 1992, Steve told his compatriots the following: "You are a
it off. No one is prouder of me than he is; no one gives me better
mere appendage-a prop-sort of like the man in those magazine
advice. When I first went off to Washington, he said, "Know the
advertisements for bridal gowns in ladies' magazines-you know, all
rules, and know the people. You really have to understand these
you see is the back of his head and tuxedo as he dances with the
rules. These guys stay up nights, the old-timers, and they know
beautiful and radiant bride
the rules." His words came back to me in a rush after the disappoint-
"The ideal role model for us all-indeed, our patron saint-is
ment of the Hyde Amendment, which ultimately was passed be-
Denis Thatcher. When I first came to Washington and met Jim
cause of arcane parliamentary procedural maneuvers on the part of
Schroeder, he said, 'Welcome to the Denis Thatcher club.' I said,
the pro-life members.
'What do I have to do to join?' He said, 'Just learn the password.' I
So Ed knows whereof he speaks, having been there himself. But
said, 'What's that?' He answered, 'Yes, dear.'
I would venture to say that his experience as a congressional spouse
Steve was placed in a backseat position traditionally held by
is different from what mine was back in the seventies. Back then,
wives. It took some adjusting to. "The hardest thing for me was in
wives were just ancillary.
making the emotional switch from one hundred percent involve-
"I can laugh about the experience because I know what it's all
ment in Nita's campaign. It was really our campaign. She wouldn't
about. It is important to show support," says Ed. "But the append-
have won without my support. That all changed the moment she
age idea is something we laugh about now, because it's not that way
was sworn in. From that point on, it was her career. What I began to
anymore."
realize was that the media, her staff, her colleagues, her constituents,
Ed's freshman experience began exactly twenty years before
interest groups, women's groups around the country care about her,
mine, so he has an interesting perspective. "I started my first touch
not me. The fact that Nita has a husband is irrelevant-nobody
on the Hill when I got a call in my senior year in law school, which
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Memo to Maggie Williams
Lisa Caputo
Lissa Muscatine
From: Mark Katz
Subj: suggested HRC humor material
Date: November 29, 1994
Here's a first draft based on our conversation yesterday afternoon. Please let
me know what's useful. what's not and what else you need.
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MKatz
HRC role
A large part of my role as the First Lady is explaining my role as the First Lady.
Once I've finished that part of my day, I can usually find a couple of
minutes to answer my mail and return a few phone calls.
In fact, I'm thinking of heading the Explain the Role of the First Lady Task
Force. (That one may require about a thousand people.)
Whatever my role is, I wish I could spend as much time doing it as
explaining it:
I serve at the pleasure of the president and I am confident I will continue as
First Lady for his full term of office.
I can't define my role but I know it when I see it.
Despite the Vice President's generous offer, I have no plans to be reinvented.
My schedule is as busy as ever. Every day, there's is another page one story
about my new low profile. It seems like its a pretty high-profile low profile to
me.
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A few weeks ago, I told a reporter that I've been "rezoned." But I failed to
mention I'm still designated for commercial and residential use.
I hope to seek the middle ground in my role as First Lady. Somewhere in
between Barbara Bush and Barbra Streisand.
health care
I am proud of work I did on the Health Care Task Force. And I have every
intention of keeping it on my resume.
We set out to simplify America's health care. It's all there, outlined in
Chapter 974
page 1487
of Volume six.
First Ladies
Mrs. Bush have something very important in common: relatives who lost in
Florida.
I want to take this opportunity to thank my fellow First Ladies, who all gave
me their unqualified support when Senator Helms asked them if they
thought I was up to the job.
1994 election
Since the election, we've been trying to send the signal that we want to
cooperate with the Republicans. Right now, I'm deciding whether I am going
to restyle my hair like Marilyn Quayle or Barbara Bush.
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You win some and you lose some. I only wish that were the case this year.
Well, its not quite that desperate. This was our plan all along. If you listened
closely in '92, we ran as Newt Democrats.
Voters have re-embraced the same set of political principles that quadrupled
our national deficit. If the American people have sent Washington a
message, its arrived postage due.
But don't write us off yet. It wasn't long ago that the experts were writing off
George Foreman halfway into the fight.
I don't think we have any problems working with the Republicans. Rabin
and Arafat have already offered to broker a peace agreement.
That's the problem with a mandate for change. It never remains the same.
I don't think I'll have any problem working with the Republicans. After all,
they think were D'm the people who got them elected.
The political climate has already improved measurable I haven't seen one of
those political attack ads on television in over three weeks.
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Memo to Lissa Muscatine
from: Mark Katz
date: November 29, 1994
subj: more material
HRC's Helpful Tips for Adjusting to Life in Washington
The first and foremost rule of politics in Washington is don't buy a glass
house.
When someone smears your name, questions your motives or impugns
your family, remember: it's nothing personal.
If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog. I wish someone told us that.
We showed up here with a neutered cat.
[borrowed from the President's speech at the Radio & Television
Correspondents Dinner, Aprtil 1994]
Once you get used to the ways of Washington, you'll find you needn't spend
hundreds of dollars to get a good haircut.
Stay in close touch with your friends and family back home. Sometimes
your back with them sooner than you planned.
If you want to protect your children from the mean streets of this city, keep
them off Pennsylvania Avenue during daylight hours.
At social events, it's easy to tell the liberals from the conservatives by their
shoes. Conservatives always wear them.
If you are eating in the congressional cafeteria and want the pork, never ask
for it by name. Tell them you'd like the "infrastructure and investment
special."
If you can, try to live in public housing. We've been very happy there.
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File Dec File
The Congressional Club
2001 NEW HAMPSHIRE AVENUE, N.W.
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20009
PHONE (202) 332-1155
October 4, 1994
PRESIDENT
Mrs. Trent Lott
Mississippi
1st VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs. Tim Valentine
Ms. Patty Solis
North Carolina
Director of Scheduling
2nd VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs. David Hobson
Office of the First Lady
Ohio
The White House
3rd VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs. John Breaux
Washington, D.C. 20500
Louisiana
4th VICE-PRESIDENT
Mrs. Porter Goss
Dear Patty:
Florida
5th VICE-PRESIDENT
We are so pleased that Mrs. Clinton has agreed to be
Mrs. Larry LaRocco
Idaho
our keynote speaker for this year's Orientation Program
TREASURER
for the spouses of the newly elected Members of the 104th
Mrs. Larry Pressler
South Dakota
Congress.
RECORDING SECRETARY
Mrs. Wally Herger
California
As you know, the program is bipartisan and for new
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
House Members only. It will take place on Thursday,
Mrs. Bob Clement
December 1, 1994, at 10:00 a.m. at the Congressional
Tennessee
Club, 2001 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W. I am enclosing a
PROGRAM CHAIRMEN
Mrs. Michael Oxley
copy of our program for your review.
Ohio
Mrs. Bill Brewster
Oklahoma
We are planning a receiving line beginning at 9:30
a.m. to give Mrs. Clinton the opportunity to meet the
spouses. However, if she prefers, we could use that time
for her to simply mingle with our attendees. Then at
10:00 a.m., we ask everyone to gather upstairs in the
ballroom where I will introduce the First Lady. We have
scheduled thirty minutes for the keynote address. She
may use the entire thirty minutes for her address or
perhaps she might prefer setting aside a portion of that
time to take questions from the spouses.
In past years we have asked our keynote speakers to
discuss their experience as the spouse of a public
figure--the enormous challenges, the public and personal
expectations, and the many rewards as well. Of course,
sharing humorous events and experiences is always very
well received!
While we would love to have the First Lady stay the
morning and join us for lunch, we certainly understand if
her schedule would not allow that. Therefore, she may
feel free to depart after her address concludes at 10:30
a.m.
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Many of the spouses, both male and female, are
completely new to public life, so our program is designed
to offer the guidance to help them get started on their
new journey. We cannot thank Mrs. Clinton enough for
deciding to share this important time with us and to
offer her wisdom, her insight, and her support.
Since I will be introducing the First Lady, I would
very much appreciate your guidance in preparing the
appropriate introductory remarks to create a suitable
background for Mrs. Clinton's address.
On behalf of the Orientation Committee of the
Congressional Club, I send along our sincere thanks to
Mrs. Clinton for accepting the invitation to join us on
December 1. Please let me know if I may provide further
information or answer any questions you may have about
the program. I may be reached through our California
office at (818) 999-1990, or you may contact Anita Lawson
in our Washington office at 225-5911.
Sincerely,
Dolores Balenson
M. Beilenson
Co-chairwoman
Orientation Committee
Enclosure
Thursday, December 1
8:00 a.m. Meet at the Hyatt Regency Hotel for coffee. Location will be
listed in your packet upon arrival at the hotel.
8:30 a.m. Meet at the front entrance driveway of the Hyatt Regency Hotel,
400 New Jersey Avenue, N.W., where you will board the bus for
the Congressional Club. Congressional wives will accompany you.
8:45 a.m. Bus departs
9:15 a.m. Reception
Meet other new wives and Orientation Committee members, tour
our historic Congressional Club. Juice, coffee and danish
will be served.
9:30 a.m. Receiving line to meet the First Lady.
10:00 a.m. Keynote Speaker
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton
10:30 a.m. Lifestyles in Washington, D.C. for the Congressional Spouse
A panel of Congressional spouses, including a full-time
career woman, a mother-homemaker, a volunteer social
activist, and a spouse who remained in the home district,
will discuss some of the different lifestyle choices
possible after moving to Washington D.C. A question period
will follow.
11:30 a.m. Social Hour
Meet the spouses of the House leadership. Meet your own
sponsor who will join you for lunch.
12:00 noon Lunch
1:00 p.m. Representatives of the various clubs for Congressional spouses
will discuss the purposes and functions of their respective
groups.
1:30 p.m. Moving to Washington
Congressional spouses will discuss such nuts and bolts
matters as the role change from spouse of a candidate to
spouse of a member, staff relations, social and political
obligations, information on buying and renting real estate
in Washington, schools and child care, volunteer and career
opportunities, etc. A question period will follow.
2:30 p.m. Review of packet materials
Carefully chosen materials have been assembled for your use.
They are geared to the particular needs of a Congressional
family. We will review and answer questions about this
material.
3:00 p.m. Bus leaves for the Hyatt Regency Hotel--approximate return time
is 3:30 p.m.
3:30-5:00 p.m. Hospitality Suite at the Hyatt Regency Hotel will be
available for coffee and will be staffed by
Congressional spouses.
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PRESIDENT
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Ohio
Washington, D.C. 20500
Brd VIOR-PAREIDENT
Mrs. John Brown
Louisiana
Dear Mrs. Clinton:
4th
Mrs. Porter Core
Florida
Exts VICE-PREDIDENT
On behalf of the Orientation Committee of the Congressional Club, I
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would like to invite you to be the keynote speaker for this year's program for the
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TREASURER
spouses of the newly elected 104th Congress. This is a two day comprehensive
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program which is bipartisan and serves all the new spouses in the House of
RECORDING BECRETARY
Representatives.
No. Wally Heren
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CORRESPONDING DECRETARY
Mrs. Bob Clement
This year's keynote address will take place on Thursday, December 1,
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1994, at 10 A.M. at the Congressional Club, 2001 New Hampshire Avenue,
PROGRAM CHARMEN
M.K. Michael Drive
N. W., Washington, D.C. The presentation is normally 20 minutes if one wishes
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to allow time for questions, or 30 minutes if one prefers more time to speak.
Disaberse
There is no press allowed as this is a personal time between spouses and is
the first opportunity they have to be together and learn something of the
challenges they may face, as well as the wonderful opportunities before them, as
they embark on the path Congressional life will afford them.
It would be a great honor to the new spouses and the Congressional Club if
your schedule would allow you to greet them. No woman in America could be a
greater inspiration. Your wisdom and grace set an example of excellence for
everyone.
We look forward to hearing from your office at your convenience. I can
be reached at
P6/b(6)
or through my husband's office at (202) 225-5911
Thank you for your kind consideration.
Sincerely,
Patti need this an
Dolores M. Beilenson
Dolores M. Boilenson
Co-chairwoman
Orientation Committee
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Lissa-
Some funny quotes
"The more I observed Washington, the more frequently I visited
it, and the more I interviewed there, the more I understood how
prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid it out as a city that goes
around in circles. "
--John Mason Brown, Through These Men
"When I was in the House, I was told that the difference between
the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee was that the Senators were too old to have
affairs. They only have relations."
--Alben W. Barkley, Harry Truman's VP
"You learn more about yourself while campaigning for just one
week than in six months spent with a psychoanalyst. "
--Adlai Stevenson
"You know, Congress is a strange place. A man gets up to speak
and says nothing, nobody listens, and then everybody disagrees. "
-will Rogers, political humorist
The Oldest Profession
A surgeon, an engineer, and a politician were
disputing: which of their occupations was the
oldest? The doctor insisted that the first profession
was surgery, because Eve was created by carving a
rib out of Adam. The engineer held that his pro-
fession was older still, for before the creation of
Adam and Eve there had to have been Earth
created from chaos-an engineer's job.
"All right," the politician finally said, "but who
do you think made the chaos?"
A Clear Explanation
Adlai Stevenson told of a little boy who heard
his father talking about converts and traitors and
said to him, "Father, what is the difference be-
tween a convert and a traitor?"
The father replied, "Well, son, don't you
understand-if a Republican becomes a Demo-
crat, he is a convert, but if a Democrat becomes a
Republican, he is a traitor."
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