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 FreqWiz rated 17 months ago- Bill and Hillary Clinton drew up a secret plan 15 years ago under which each of them would occupy the White House for eight years, according to one of several new books about the leading Democratic candidate for the US presidency.
According to the book - which has been dismissed by Mrs Clinton's aides - even before they were married, the couple had formulated a plan to reinvent the Democratic Party and make it to the White House. That blueprint was updated after Bill Clinton's election victory in 1992, with the proposal that she would run once he had left office.
The claim adds to the perception of the methodical, driven nature of the Clinton campaign for the presidency - a race in which she is currently the front-runner within her party. Taken with other allegations contained in a separate book, it also boosts a widely held belief in political circles, that by the late 1980s, the Clinton marriage had become little more than a mutually-beneficial political arrangement.
The claims, reported by The Washington Post, have been dismissed by Mrs Clinton's campaign team. Howard Wolfson, a campaign spokesman, said: "The news here is that it took three reporters a decade to find no news. Two overwhelming Senate victories in the toughest media market in the country demonstrated that voters have put these issues behind them."
The allegations are contained in two forthcoming books. One, A Woman in Charge, by the former Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein, says that in 1989 the Clintons almost divorced as a result of his infidelity and desire to be with another woman. Mrs Clinton apparently refused to divorce him, telling her husband's then chief-of-staff: "There are worse things than infidelity." The second book, Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Clinton, is written by two reporters for The New York Times. It claims, among other things that in 1992, a team overseen by Mrs Clinton hired a private investigator to undermine Gennifer Flowers, the former Arkansas television reporter who claimed to have had a 12-year affair with her husband.
Bernstein's book also portrays Mrs Clinton as going to great lengths to keep her husband's alleged infidelities secret. It claims when he was running for the presidency, two partners who had worked with her at the Rose Law Firm, were hired to represent two other women claiming to have had affairs with him.
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