Aides in former President Bill Clinton's White House crafted a strategy to "humanize" first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and work around her "aversion" to the national media, according to previously secret documents released Friday.
The documents also detailed the first lady's struggles in the early 1990s with her health care task force, including worries about resistance on Capitol Hill and an aide's warning that the plan could not meet a pledge to allow patients to pick their doctors — a promise that also came back to haunt President Barack Obama.
The release of nearly 4,000 pages of previously sealed documents by the Clinton Presidential Library served to revisit Hillary Clinton's record and early struggles with her image as she gears up for a potential 2016 run for the presidency. The documents had previously been withheld from the public under a legal authority that expired last year.
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