WI: Hillary Clinton is hired by Ronald Reagan

kasumigenx

kasumigenx

What if Ronald Reagan hires HRC in his cabinet, would her husband still be president in 1992?

Hillary is a big fan of Reagan FYI.
 
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Amadeus

kasumigenx said:
What if Ronald Reagan hires HRC in his cabinet, would his husband still be president in 1992?

Hillary is a big fan of Reagan FYI.
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Why would Reagan do this? At the time, HRC was the barely known former First Lady of Arkansas and a Democrat. In order for this to happen, not only would HRC have to continue being a Republican but she'd have to enter politics well before 1980.
 

Amadeus

Amadeus said:
Why would Reagan do this? At the time, HRC was the barely known former First Lady of Arkansas and a Democrat. In order for this to happen, not only would HRC have to continue being a Republican but she'd have to enter politics well before 1980.
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And without HRC to defend her husband during the Gennifer Flowers scandal, it's possible that Clinton decisively loses New Hampshire in 1992 and his campaign loses momentum from there.
 
kasumigenx

kasumigenx

Amadeus said:
Why would Reagan do this? At the time, HRC was the barely known former First Lady of Arkansas and a Democrat. In order for this to happen, not only would HRC have to continue being a Republican but she'd have to enter politics well before 1980.
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Or Bill Clinton dies in the early 80s.
 

Zheng He

Opposing party members often serve on cabinets, in fact some presidents make it a point to have a few cabinet members from the other party (Clinton and SECDEF Cohen for example). However, HRC was not a particularly well known commodity at the time, as someone else said, she was the wife of a young governor of a small state. If Reagan wanted to hire a Democrat for his cabinet, he would hire somebody with a much higher profile.
 
kasumigenx

kasumigenx

Zheng He said:
Opposing party members often serve on cabinets, in fact some presidents make it a point to have a few cabinet members from the other party (Clinton and SECDEF Cohen for example). However, HRC was not a particularly well known commodity at the time, as someone else said, she was the wife of a young governor of a small state. If Reagan wanted to hire a Democrat for his cabinet, he would hire somebody with a much higher profile.
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I think HRC if her husband dies in the early 80s is more likely to serve HW Bush..
 
jpj1421

jpj1421

kasumigenx said:
Or Bill Clinton dies in the early 80s.
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It would be rather too late as by that point Hillary Clinton would have already served a single term as First Lady of Arkansas, where she was often a political headache for being too liberal and feminist and outspoken while married to such an otherwise moderate and reasonable Governor.
 
kasumigenx

kasumigenx

jpj1421 said:
It would be rather too late as by that point Hillary Clinton would have already served a single term as First Lady of Arkansas, where she was often a political headache for being too liberal and feminist and outspoken while married to such an otherwise moderate and reasonable Governor.
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Zheng He said:
She'll have to do something to raise her profile though. I see her going to DC or New York to practice law and making connections so perhaps she does get noticed.
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I think if HW or Reagan hires her, she would be the Mc Carthy parrot darling of the administration.
 

Deleted member 87099

kasumigenx said:
What if Ronald Reagan hires HRC in his cabinet, would her husband still be president in 1992?

Hillary was a big fan of Reagan FYI.
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FTFY

I'll echo everyone else and say that unless you change her life from 1968 on there's a very little chance of it happening.
 

Deleted member 109224

Maybe after Watergate she gets a job in the White House Counsel's office. She works her way up regardless of administration. Reagan notices her and gives her a cabinet spot.
 
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