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Hillary turned to Rangel. "Charlie," she said, her mouth widening into a big, playful grin, "you're baaaaad...
...Rangel was telling the truth. At a photo op in Merida, Mexico, the next day, Clinton was asked about Hillary's prospects. "It's a decision she'll have to make," he said, before blurting out his feeling that "she'd be great if she did...I think she would be terrific in the Senate...
...real? Though Hillary has always had large political ambitions, close friends at first thought the Senate idea was essentially frivolous, something she would swat down before long. When Rangel began pushing her to run in November, after Moynihan announced his retirement, Hillary seemed more flattered than serious. But she didn't discourage his overtures. Friends say she is ambivalent about doing the kind of high-profile good works--for the United Nations, for private foundations--that others often assume are in her future. And the more Rangel talked, the more she listened, tried the idea on for size and liked...
...draft-Hillary effort soon took on a life of its own. When powerful New York Democrats pestered Rangel about the First Lady's plans, he suggested they call her office themselves. Reporting back, they told Rangel, "You know what? She really is thinking about it." Earlier this year, Hillary asked California Senator Barbara Boxer--whose daughter is married to Hillary's brother--to approach Moynihan, with whom the Clintons have had cool relations, about a meeting to discuss a Senate race. Boxer went to Moynihan twice during the impeachment trial; he agreed to meet once it was over. Last Friday...
Meanwhile Rangel has kept up his offensive. In January Hillary invited him to the White House after the State of the Union address. He brought New York Representative Nita Lowey, who has designs on the Democratic Senate nomination; she pledged to step aside if Hillary were to run. The next day Hillary and the President appeared before a throng of supporters in Buffalo, N.Y. In a neat reversal of their usual roles, Hillary kept Clinton waiting 15 minutes while she worked a rabid rope line. The next time Rangel and Hillary spoke, it was she who made the call. Last...