![]() History, says Clinton, “will judge whoever’s in Congress now as to how they respond to what was an attack on our country. It will be days before newspapers report that Trump asked Comey to move away from the Russia investigation prior to firing him, but the implications are already clear. And certainly the Trump campaign relished everything that was done to me in July and then particularly in October.” But “having said that, I think what’s going on now is an effort to derail and bury the Russia inquiry, and I think that’s terrible for our country.” “Not that he shouldn’t have been disciplined. “I am less surprised than I am worried,” she says of the Comey firing. Clinton checks with her communications director, Nick Merrill, about what’s happened in the past hour - she’s been exercising - and listens to the barrage of updates, nodding like a person whose job requires her to be up-to-date on what’s happening, even though it does not. It’s the day after Donald Trump has fired FBI director James Comey, the man who many - including Clinton - believe is responsible for the fact that she is spending this Wednesday in May working at a dining-room table in Chappaqua and not in the Oval Office. It’s clear that she is making an active choice to remain a public figure. She is reemerging, giving speeches and interviews. With no more races to run and no more voters to woo with fancy hair, Clinton appears now as she might have if she’d aged in nature and not in the crucible of American politics. She looks not like the woman who’s familiar from television, from newspapers, from America of the past 25 years, but like the 69-year-old version of the young woman who came to the national stage with a wackadoodle Wellesley commencement speech in 1969. ![]() ![]() It’s the glasses, probably, that work to make her face look rounder, or maybe just the bareness of her skin. Wearing no makeup and giant Coke-bottle glasses, dressed in a gray mock-turtleneck and black zip sweatshirt, Hillary looks less Clinton and more Rodham than I have ever seen her outside of college photographs. When I walk into the Chappaqua dining room in which Hillary Clinton is spending her days working on her new book, I am greeted by a vision from the past.
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