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"Everyone was calling everyone. I was honored to call one of the family members of the 9/11 victims; I called the House Homeland Security Committee and [Secretary of Homeland Security] Janet Napolitano. While I was in the Situation Room, I overheard one of the White House operations, saying [on the phone], 'Oh, I'm so sorry -- I didn't know you didn't work for President Clinton anymore. Do you know where I can reach him?' President Obama was calling his predecessors, George W. Bush and President Clinton. The operator is trying to find President Clinton. I looked at him and I said, 'Hold on one minute.' And I stepped back into the main room, [Secretary of State] Hillary [Clinton] was there, and I said, 'Madam Secretary, I'm really sorry to bother you, but do you have your husband's phone number?'

-- Mike Leiter, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, on the immediate aftermath of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011. President Obama was trying to get in touch with his immediate predecessors to notify them about the successful special forces operation and bin Laden's death, but there was some trouble finding contact information for former President Bill Clinton until Leiter realized he could simply ask Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the former President's phone number.

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Requested clip from The War Room documentary Campaign ‘92 Valentine’s Day

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Just a small scene from the Gala in Belfast

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Governor Inaugural Ball- Little Rock 1985

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Hillary + Bill + campaigning + birthdays Years 1999, 2006, 2007 Happy 75th birthday to Hillary Rodham Clinton!

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Senate campaign 2006!

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Bill campaigning for Hillary in 2007

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Cuddly night

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“The fact that I’m a part of this night has really blown my mind. I’ve been a huge fan of Hillary’s for a long time. The little girl and the woman inside me are freaking out that I get to be in the same room as her.”

—Elizabeth Olsen fangirling over meeting Hillary Clinton

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From an interview with Nancy Bekavac, former Yale classmate of Bill’s and Hillary’s. Here are parts that talk more about them in Yale.

I want to talk first about your memories of that time period at Yale Law School. You knew Bill before you knew Hillary?

Bill and I came in in the same class, and first years take all their classes together, so you tend to know the people in your class best. Bill showed up at school in November and came up to me in the hall and asked to borrow notes, and I said, “For what?” He said, “For all your classes.” I said, “Why?” He said, “Well, I’m in all your classes.” I said, “No you aren’t.” He said: “Well, I’ve been busy. I was running Joe Duffy for the Senate and he just lost, so I need to borrow your notes.” And I said, “Well, I have to go through them first.” He said, “Why, do you have love letters in there?” I said, “No, I have really bad poetry, and I’m not going to let you see it.” He said, “Well, you could.” I said: “No. I’ll see you tomorrow at lunch.”

So I gave him the notes at lunch. We went through the lunch line, and the thing I realized was that he had been there not even a week and he knew the names of all the servers in the line. I knew the name of the lady at the end who took payment. He knew all their names. They were mostly black, male and female. [He] called them all by name, talked to them all. And I remember thinking, this is different. This has got to be the only law student at Yale who knows everybody’s name.

I didn’t meet Hillary until the spring. I think partly that’s because that fall she was mostly taking courses at the Gesell Institute. When Hillary came to Yale, she decided she wanted to get a master’s degree in child development, and to do that you took a year of courses in the psychology department. There was a specific institute that studies children. It’s very well known. That fall she was mostly there, because I don’t remember seeing her until spring semester.

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Since it was discussed a lot, here’s the full clip from episode 4 of Gutsy. Hillary discussing her reasons for staying married and her love for Bill.

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Q: Riley

Did you get the sense that she was grooming herself in some way for this?

A: Nussbaum

No. They have a very close relationship. I know all that they have gone through and how they’ve become these mythic figures with the [Monica] Lewinsky situation—this terrible analysis of their marriage and reputation and things like that. But in my view—I may be wrong but I have been with them and seen them—they are closely tied together.

I guess any married couple can split up. Even the Clintons could split up some day. It would shock me if the Clintons did. That doesn’t mean it can’t happen, but it would shock me. They have a close bond to each other. They need each other on various levels. Psychologically, politically—they just rely on each other. They can fill needs of each other on very fundamental levels.

They’ve helped each other over the years. Obviously, they’ve fought with each other, and from time to time they’ve had a difficult marriage, I presume. Some of it I’ve seen, but not a lot. They have a marriage. Any marriage is hard. Maybe theirs is harder in some respects. I don’t know for sure. But I do have a sense of their tie to each other, and it’s very close and very strong, and she was very supportive of him all those years.

She may have been critical from time to time with temper tantrums and things like that, but she was very strong and he needed her desperately. He would not have been President, I don’t think, without her. And she needs him to be a good Senator and whatever else she does in life. From what I understand and what I believe, he’s her closest advisor. He’s a genius, politically. They have a very close tie.

So when she sort of changed herself, I don’t think she was grooming herself. I think she was reacting to a reality that would require a change to happen in order to foster his career. And it’s not surprising that she did it, just like he’s shaping his life now to foster her career. And he says it overtly. It’s not covert. They’re a unique team in American history. I don’t know, we’ll see what historians write 100 years from now. But the Clintons couldn’t do it without each other. I’m not sure, maybe that’s true for other couples too, but it’s certainly true for them. Presidential Oral History Bernard Nussbaum - year 2002

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WASHINGTON, : US President Bill Clinton with wife Hillary and nephew Tyler Clinton (partly hidden) wave as they leave the White House in Washington, DC, for the Camp David presidential retreat 30 December 2000 . The president left the White House by helicopter to spend the last New Year weekend of his presidency at Camp David, Maryland.