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Friday. March 10.1995
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First lady's image seen as redefined
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON —During a tour to show off renovations in the White House, Hillary Rodham Clinton paused for a moment to criticize Republican proposals to cut Medicare.
Then she smiled brightly and changed the subject.
"Let's go look at the new rugs in the East Room," she said.
Battered in last year's health-care wars, America's first lady to plunge so deeply into policy-making is pulling back a bit this year. But if she is no longer a visible policy architect, she remains an advocate.
While once she crafted legislation and directed the administration's mammoth health reform effort, now she visits with elderly women to stress the importance of mammograms and listens sympathetically to veterans with Gulf War ailments.
Whereas once her sharp tongue cut down critical legislators, now she munches an apple with schoolchildren to illustrate the importance of the federal lunch program.
White House aides say the shift is the result of discussions between Hillary Clinton and the president about how her role should change
in the aftermath of the health-care debacle and the Democrats' election drubbing.
"Their view is that Americans will appreciate her in the role of an advocate discussing the issues that she feels passionately about," said one White House aide. "Where they get uncomfortable is when they see her taking operational control over pieces of business."
Republican and Democratic analysts alike say the first lady had no choice but to lower her policy-making profile after Americans linked her so closely with the fallings of the administration's health-care plan.
By the time the November elections rolled around, polls showed the number of people who viewed her unfavorably inching above those who regarded her favorably.
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole took an indirect jab at Hillary Clinton yesterday as he joked that he's already made one pledge concerning his wife in his bid for the presidency.
"The stories come and go, and I just remain the same," Hillary Clinton said.
"If I'm elected, Elizabeth will not be in charge of health care policy," Dole said, drawing cheers at a luncheon of chiropractors.
talk that she is being repackaged to improve her image.
But White House officials acknowledge Hillary Clinton is trying a new tack to deliver her message — and chafing at all the psychoanalysis of the change.
Hillary Clinton dismisses all the
Even in her more restrained role, Hillary Clinton still comes across as an activist first lady speaking on out the issues she believes in.
Hillary Clinton traveled to Copenhagen this week to speak at a world poverty summit, where she announced a $100 million U.S. program to improve women's education in poorer countries. Later this month, she travels to India and four other nations in the region to examine social and development issues.
Hillary Clinton still is actively involved in White House meetings about health reform, and she sizes up political sentiments around the country during her travels. On a recent visit to Iowa, for example, she held a private meeting with liberals and labor leaders to hear their concerns. She is sure to be an important part of the president's reelection team.
In coming months, Hillary Clinton will continue to stress the importance of mammograms, kicking off a public service campaign around Mother's Day, and to keep pressing for answers on Gulf War syndrome. In addition, she plans to follow through on vows to get more involved in the District of Columbia community.
"What she does is use the traditional venues of a first lady to make a political statement," said Carl Anthony, historian and author on first ladies. "The beginning of her third year is kind of a unique combination of the traditionalist role and the activist role. It's half Pat Nixon and half elephant Roosevelt."
It is unclear how much Hillary Clinton can change opinions that have jellied over the last two years. Pollsters say her approval ratings tend to move up and down in tandem with the president's.
Democratic consultant Celinda Lake said Americans feel more comfortable with Hillary Clinton advancing multiple issues rather than striking an unidimensional stance. "She is still very much perceived as a more active first lady and a new generation of first lady," she said.
Expanded version of Frank's diary disclosed
The Associated Press
NEW YORK - She lives on as the powerful voice of a lost generation.
But like most girls her age, Anne Frank also walled in the trivialities of adolescence: boys, gossip, stormy standoffs with Mom.
"They say she can't stand me. But I don't care, since I don't like her much either." Anne wrote about a classmate on June 15, 1942, shortly before the Frank family went into hiding from the Nazis.
Anne's sometimes irreverent observations and references to her budding sexual awareness are in a newly expanded version of her famous diary.
Schoolchildren and celebrities, including Estelle Parsons, Celeste
Holm, Garson Kanin and Michael Moriarty, gathered yesterday for a reading to mark the 50th anniversary of Frank's death in a concentration camp in early March 1945. She was 15.
Read aloud before an audience of 2,000, the words took on an endearing tone, sometimes prompting laughter. "J. is a detestable, sneaky, stuck-up, two-faced gossip. ... Herman Koopman also has a filthy mind."
Miep Gies, the Dutch woman who helped hide the Franks and later saved Anne's diary, said that Anne's father, who published the original version, omitted some of the passages out of modesty and respect for his dead wife.
"I imagine a mother," wrote Anne, "as a woman who, first and foremost, possesses a great deal of tact, especially toward her adolescent children, and not one who, like Mommy, pokes fun at me when I cry."
But Gies noted that customs had changed. She said she thought Otto Frank, Anne's father, would have approved of the full disclosure.
"Anne's ideas were such treasures that leaving out one of them would mean a great loss to the world," Gies said.
The Frank family moved from Germany to Amsterdam in a futile effort to avoid the Nazi persecution of Jews.
Anne kept her diary from June 1942 to August 1944, when the Gestapo raided the family's hiding place.
In one entry, Anne wrote about the 17-year-old boy, Peter van Daan, who shared the family's hideaway.
"Id like to ask Peter whether he knows what girls look like down there," Anne wrote about the boy who eventually gave her her first kiss. She then wrote a graphic description of female genitalia.
After the Nazis stormed the hideaway, Gies sneaked in and recovered Anne's diary. She hid it in her desk drawer, unread, waiting for Anne to come home, and eventually handed it over to Otto Frank.
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