Capitol Hill Blue
Hillary & Donna: A Tale of Two Wives With Wandering Hubbys
5/15/00
By Margery Eagan
So the mothers are marching against guns in Washington, and their
righteousness is impressive.
But some of us admit a greater fascination today with the
political mothers in New York and their wildly divergent examples
for surviving marital dalliance.
Those mothers, of course, are Donna Hanover, the once but
apparently not the future Mrs. Rudy Giuliani; and Hillary Rodham
Clinton, ``Just Hillary'' these days. And Mayor Giuliani - with
his cancer and his ``very close friend'' and his wife done wrong,
God help him - is all that stands between ``Just Hillary'' and
her eternal quest to tell the rest of us what's right, proper and
pure.
Here's how Hanover, 50, reacted to her husband's repeated public
appearances with a 45-year-old divorcee, Judith Nathan, a nurse
whom Rudy met at a school parent/teachers event. She gave two
tearful, painful press conferences. She described her marriage as
something ``very precious'' which she'd tried to save. She
fretted for her children, 14 and 10. And she blamed her marital
mess on her husband's infidelities.
``For several years it was difficult to participate in Rudy's
public life because of his relationship with one staff member,''
Hanover said of Giuliani's reported relationship with a
35-year-old press aide.
But after said aide left his office, Hanover said she and her
husband recovered some of their personal intimacy. ``I made a
major effort to bring us back together,'' but her husband ``chose
another path.''
To the aforementioned Ms. Nathan.
Hanover said all this with what seemed real feeling and
sincerity. And in fact long before the ``Nathan'' revelations,
neither Giuliani chose to insult the voter by pretending to be
what they were not.
They did not pose for photographers surfside, embracing in
bathing suits. They did not show up at weekly church services,
holding Bibles and each other. They did not go to fund-raisers at
Alec Baldwin's in the Hamptons and wax poetic about their first
date, as if theirs was some sort of model marriage for the nation
to emulate.
No, Rudy Giuliani had frequently referred to his and his wife's
``separate'' lives. A dignified Hanover, for years, said nothing,
until she said she could stand no more.
``Just Hillary,'' meanwhile, has shown over and over that she
will stand for chronic pain and serial humiliation and just about
anything else from her husband.
She purses her lips. She plows ahead. She blames her marital mess
on right-wing conspirators, his dead mother and grandmother -
anyone but him. She talks of intimate, late-night policy
discussions with her husband, during which they share all -
unless it's something that might prove problematic to her New
York campaign, in which case it's the one thing he forgot to
share.
Two weeks ago, incredibly, she sponsored a forum on raising
teenagers in America - and presented her and Bill as model
parents of a teen. Needless to say she did not mention her area
of expertise: guiding teens through daddy's affairs with women
barely out of the teen years themselves.
No, ``Just Hillary'' advised us lesser mortals to do what she and
Bill have done: to spend more time with our teens, to eat supper
with them, to stay up with them to the wee hours, as she and Bill
did, sacrificing their own policy initiatives so Chelsea could
finish some project. It made me want to scream, really.
But such is the hallmark of ``Just Hillary's'' public life: to
ignore the gigantic white elephant sitting in the middle of the
dining room table; to hope that if she keeps on pretending it
isn't there, somehow, the rest of us will forget it, too.
And guess what: It seems to be working, which just goes to show
that whatever entranced us so about John McCain, it wasn't really
his straight talk.
No, in the case of the Clinton vs. the Giuliani marital
spectacle, the smart money says the husband fares better who lies
and feigns than one who tells the truth and follows his heart.
The smart money says Donna Hanover may yet have a brilliant soap
opera career, but ``Just Hillary's'' got the mo' now in her
bloodless quest to win the U.S. Senate seat from New York, and
who knows what beyond.
©2000 Boston Herald
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