28 things we learned from Hillary Clinton's new campaign memoir
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We will probably not be getting The Winds of Winter in 2017, but at least we got one tale of political intrigue in bookstores this year: What Happened, Hillary Clinton’s first-person retelling of the 2016 campaign.
And while the ending may not be as shocking as any of George R.R. Martin’s — she loses — there’s still enough in the book’s 400 pages to pique a reader’s interest, including folksy anecdotes about life on the campaign trail, harsh words for her male opponents, and a fair amount of self-examination about how she fell short.
We’ll leave the official review up to the critics, but in the meantime, here’s a helpful summary of the juiciest tidbits.
1. Remember that famous photo of Bill and Hillary at Trump’s wedding?
(See it here.) She says that they weren’t close at all with Donald and Melania, and assumed they were only invited to increase the wedding’s “star power.” They only went, she says, because they happened to be in the area anyway.
2. Those clear ponchos everyone wore at Trump’s inauguration were originally white.
Chip Somodevilla /Getty ImagesUntil one staffer realized that, from a distance, they all looked like “KKK hoods.”
3. After the election, Hillary was often approached by strangers who apologized for not doing enough to help her win.
(Even more mortifyingly, some parents forced their adult children to apologize to her for not voting.) She writes that she didn’t know how to handle these interactions: “These people were looking for absolution I just couldn’t give.”
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