12 September 2017 - Hillary Clinton's New Memoir, "What Happened"
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Clinton looks for rewind button in ‘What Happened’Amie Parnes (The Hill, 11/09/2017)
In “What Happened,” her chronicle of a surprisingly unsuccessful presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton repeatedly wishes she could hit the rewind button on 2016.
Clinton, the former Democratic presidential nominee, time and again expresses pangs of regret about her loss to Republican Donald Trump.
And she hits herself for not being more aggressive in attacking the hypocrisy and double standards she feels she endured from the media, Republicans and even some Democrats who have criticized what they call a lackluster campaign.
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War on Truth
Sabrina Siddiqui and David Smith (The Guardian, 12/09/2017)
“Attempting to define reality is a core feature of authoritarianism,” the defeated presidential candidate writes in What Happened, published on Tuesday. “This is what the Soviets did when they erased political dissidents from historical photos. This is what happens in George Orwell’s classic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, when a torturer holds up four fingers and delivers electric shocks until his prisoner sees five fingers as ordered.”
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Losing the Elections
(CBS News, 10/09/2017)
Hillary Clinton has spent the last 10 months trying to figure out why she isn't the president of the United States.
"I am good," Clinton told "Sunday Morning" anchor Jane Pauley. "But that doesn't mean I am complacent or resolved about what happened. It still is very painful. It hurts a lot." Jane Pauley:
As the polls closed, Clinton's supporters gathered in a New York City convention center, expecting to see history being made. But as the returns came in, the celebratory mood began to fade.
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Mistakes
Chris Cillizza (CNN, 11/09/2017)
"I think the -- the most important of the mistakes I made was using personal email," Clinton acknowledged. "I've said it before, I'll say it again, that was my responsibility. It was presented in such a really negative way, and I never could get out from under it. And it never stopped."
She's (sort of) right. There's no question that the decision -- during Clinton's early days at the State Department -- to exclusively use a private email address/server was a massive mistake.
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"12 September 2017 - Hillary Clinton's New Memoir, "What Happened"", La Clé des Langues [en ligne], Lyon, ENS de LYON/DGESCO (ISSN 2107-7029), septembre 2017. Consulté le 16/04/2024. URL: https://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/key-story/archives-revue-de-presse-2017/12-september-2017-hillary-clinton-s-new-memoir-what-happened-