A Woman's Place

Hillary Learns to Speak Softly, Cash in Big Chits

HILLARY CLINTON tried her best last week to be just one of the rookies, trooping around Capitol Hill with other Senators-elect and sitting through hours of lectures on how to set up her legislative office. Behind the scenes, the First Lady and soon-to-be New York Senator has buttonholed the chamber's old hands on how she should act to fit into the club. Their advice: pay your dues, speak when you've really got something to say and lose the Secret Service detail when you're in the Capitol. Senators hate colleagues with too many "suits" around them. Clinton has been huddling with BARBARA...

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