legal and policy writings, they said, she encouraged children to sue their parents. She was an "activist,'' or worse, "a feminist.''
Either the accusations were untrue or so simplified as to be meaningless. But accusations aside, everyone could see that Hillary Clinton was bound to make a formidable First Lady. Not Barbara Bush, Nancy Reagan, Rosalynn Carter, or even Eleanor Roosevelt had the kind of substantive influence on the White House that Hillary Clinton undoubtedly would have. Here was someone who had actually made public policy herself, not simply cajoled her husband into making it. Here, too, was both a professional woman and a working wife and mother, come to prominence at a time when women long to see how the
