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I cant wait for Hillary Clintons new book. It is being billed as a series of essays about the highs and lows of her career including the 2016 presidential race and her loss to you-know-who. She plans to hang her musings on hundreds of quotes that have inspired her over the years.

These quotes have helped me celebrate the good times, laugh at the absurd times, persevere during the hard times and deepen my appreciation of all life has to offer, she offered in a pre-blurb blurb. There is no name yet but maybe we could suggest a few. And while we are at it, we could point her to a few of our favourite utterances from Battle 2016, lest she overlooks them.

First, the title though. Bad Hombre: The problem with Donald Trumpmight sell. Pithier would be Nasty Man. Or possibly, Michigan: I hear its nice in the fall.Or she could try this: Promise to America: I will not run again ever, ever, ever. I might buy that.

The former first lady, Secretary of State and US Senator surely knows not to be tempted by the lure of third time lucky. She ran in 2008 and lost in the primaries to Barack Obama. We all know what happened last year. Despondent Democrats are still squabbling about whether she was even the right nominee. Bernie would have killed Trump! Joe Biden would have demolished him!

I am tempted to believe the latter, not the former. The Clintons, all the Clintons, should retire themselves. This dynasty is dead. If the Democrats have learned anything its that all political dynasties are dead. The privileged party elite are hemlock. No Clintons in 2020. No Cuomos (thats you Andrew, Gov. of New York).

No one does antipathy to the Clintons better than author Ed Klein. What was in his head the other day when he quoted an unnamed source with an arresting inside tip: aside from writing books and accepting more highly-paid speaking gigs (her not so harmless addiction), Ms Clinton plans a TV talk show, a la Oprah or Ellen, and to use it to launch that third try in 2020?

Klein either wants to destroy any chance that she might run again even before it enters her head. Or he wishes she does run so he can write another New York Times best-seller rubbishing her and her husband, former President Bill Clinton. Only he knows whether his source was real or fake.

She thinks being the host of a popular TV show would energize the Democratic Party base and her tens of millions of fans, the unnamed person allegedly told him. It's a way to make a comeback and position herself for another run at the White House starting in a year or so.

After disappearing into the woods near the family compound in Chappaqua, Ms Clinton has been slowly returning to the spotlight. She attended the inauguration. She and Bill received a standing ovation the other night at the premier of a new Broadway musical. We have just learned about the book. And the speaking engagements are starting to multiply. Shell be at the LGBT Community Centre in New York in April and Wellesley College, her almamater, in May.

So of course the speculation mill has begun turning. There was a burst of talk of her running to succeed Bill De Blasio as Mayor ofNew York. She would almost certainly win the job, but well, mayor! She is worth more than that. Another theory: she will focus on grooming Chelsea Clinton for her old Senate seat representing New York.

Hillarys problem has always been that Im entitled post-it-note stuck to her forehead. Even the Democratic National Committee surreptitiously schemed to promote her chances at the expense of Bernie Sanders last spring. Thats over now. She would not even deserve a third run at the prize, never mind be entitled to it, never mind that right now we cant think of who among the Democrats would make a good candidate. But there is plenty of time for someone to emerge. Someone new and fresh. Not someone entitled.

But back to the book. If its sympathy she wants, then her biggest challenge will be choosing from the silage pile of Trumps abusive remarks from last year. Where to start? Well, actually we probably agree on that. She might devote a chapter to the entitlement he apparently felt to connect small hands to female sexual organs. Less offensive, but just as priceless: Nasty woman.

She may want to pay tribute to Senator Elizabeth Warren, who used the nasty woman label as a cudgel on Trump thereafter. Nasty women have really had it with guys like you, she mocked. Yeah, get this, Donald: Nasty women are tough. Nasty women are smart. And nasty women vote. And on Nov. 8 we nasty women are going to march our nasty feet to cast our nasty votes to get you out of our lives forever. Great sentiment. It just didnt turn out that way.

Finally, dear Hillary, if you are honest with yourself, you cant leave this one out either. Its something you said. I remember the day. You were at a donors banquet in New York. When I read the words, I gaped in astonishment. Blunders so perfectly pitched to help your opponent are rarely made in politics. It was in fact, beautiful, if your name was Trump.

To just be grossly generalistic, she told her shiny, platinum-card guests, you could put half of Trumps supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic, you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that, and he has lifted them up.

Nothing Clinton said last year resonated as widely as that did. It seemed to many perfectly to capture the tone-deaf arrogance of her campaign. Put that on the dust-jacket Madam Secretary. And look at it every time you think of trying again in four years' time.

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Hillary Clinton is writing a book. 'Promise to America, I won't run for President again, ever, ever, ever' - The Independent

Hillary Clinton is testing her worth on the free market by returning to the speaking circuit.

Clinton has signed on with the Harry Walker Agency, the Associated Press reported, where she regularly commanded $200,000 or more per speech before her failed campaign for the White House.

The AP reported Wednesday that Clinton will also be writing a book featuring a compilation of personal essays, inspired by the hundreds of quotations she has been collecting for decades.

These are the words I live by, Clinton said in a press release from her publisher, Simon & Schuster.

These quotes have helped me celebrate the good times, laugh at the absurd times, persevere during the hard times and deepen my appreciation of all life has to offer, she said.

In addition to the fall release of her book of essays, Clinton is slated to publish a childrens book.

That volume, also scheduled for the fall, is said to be based on her 1996 book It Takes A Village.

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Hillary Clinton plots her comeback - New York Post

Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton greets Michelle Obama on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol on January 20, 2017 in Washington, DC. Joe Raedle / Getty Images

"These are the words I live by," Clinton said in a statement. "These quotes have helped me celebrate the good times, laugh at the absurd times, persevere during the hard times and deepen my appreciation of all life has to offer."

"I hope by sharing these words and my thoughts about them, the essays will be meaningful for readers," Clinton added.

A Clinton aide also confirmed to NBC News that she will deliver the 2017 commencement speech at her alma mater, Wellesley College, in Massachusetts.

Clinton will also resume her relationship with the Harry Walker Agency, the speakers bureau she worked with after she stepped down in 2013 as secretary of state. Clinton's lucrative career as a speaker, notably her talks sponsored by Goldman Sachs, were criticized by primary opponent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and others as a sign that she was too close to the financial industry.

Clinton does have some speeches arranged, but not through the Walker agency, Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill told the AP. On March 8, she will address an international women's day event organized by Vital Voices, the initiative Clinton and then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright founded in 1997. Clinton will also speak at the LGBT Community Center in New York on April 20.

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Wednesday's announcements mark a growing re-emergence for Clinton, who ran twice for the White House, hoping to become the country's first woman president. She lost to Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic primaries and, despite winning the popular vote, to Trump in 2016. Clinton, 69, was defeated in one of the harshest presidential elections in modern times, with Trump threatening to jail his opponent because of her use of a private email server while secretary of state.

She has made few public comments since the election, but attended Trump's inauguration earlier this month and has been critical of his policies. She tweeted in support of the nationwide women's marches held the day after his inauguration and condemned his recent executive order restricting immigration. Her pinned tweet quotes remarks she gave Nov. 9, the day after Election Day: "To all the little girls watching...never doubt that you are valuable and powerful & deserving of every chance & opportunity in the world."

Clinton has another literary project in the works: She will reissue her best-selling "It Takes a Village" in an illustrated edition for young people, Simon and Schuster told the AP. Clinton will collaborate with Marla Frazee, a two-time Caldecott finalist for the year's outstanding picture book.

The original "It Takes a Village" was Clinton's first book and came out in 1995, when she was first lady. Clinton has since published "Dear Socks, Dear Buddy" and the best-selling memoirs "Living History," which covered her life through her years as first lady and her successful Senate run New York in 2000, and "Hard Choices," about her years as secretary of state during Obama's first term. If the 2016 campaign was her last, her book of essays would be her first written while she was neither in public office nor anticipating a future run.

Financial terms were not disclosed for her essay collection. Clinton was represented by Washington attorney Robert Barnett, whose other clients include Obama and Clinton's husband, former President Bill Clinton. Net author proceeds from "It Takes a Village" will be donated to charity.

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Hillary Clinton Re-emerges, Announces New Book, Wellesley Speech - NBCNews.com

Howard Stern has said some shocking things in his time, but perhaps nothing quite so shocking as this: The radio host recently claimed that Donald Trump secretly wants Hillary Clinton to be president. Seriously. On Wednesday, the former Americas Got Talent judge argued that Trump ran in the election not because he wanted to be the leader of the free world but because he wanted a couple more bucks out of NBC in his contract for The Apprentice. That is why Donald is calling for voter fraud investigations. Hes pissed he won. He still wants Hillary Clinton to win, Stern added (jokingly?). Hes so f***ing pissed, hes hoping that he can find some voter fraud and hand it over to Hillary.

While the idea that someone accidentally won the presidency when all he wanted was a fatter reality TV contract might sound like the script for a movie, Stern and Trump have been friendly for decades, which means the shock jock might have a more in-depth understanding of what motivates the new commander in chief than the rest of us. (ICYMI, Trump appeared on Sterns show many times.) So, according to Stern, what is Trumps main goal? Its pretty simple: Trump wants to be liked; he wants to be loved, Stern said. He wants people to cheer for him.

Howard Stern and Donald Trump. (Photo: The Life Picture Collection/Getty Images)

The 63-year-old star added that he was amazed when Trump first announced his candidacy back in 2015, because he remembered the billionaire businessman as being a staunch Clinton supporter. While the topic of discussion during Trumps visits to Sterns show had more to do with panties than politics, Stern did say that Trump had been pro-abortion. Of Trumps campaign, Stern added, The new Donald Trump kind of surprised me. Its safe to say he wasnt alone on that one.

Another area where Stern noted some serious flip-flopping? Trumps take on Hollywood. Hes now on this anti-Hollywood kick. He loves Hollywood! First of all, he loves the press. He lives for it! He loves people in Hollywood. He only wants to hobnob with them, Stern argued.

Donald Trump, Melania Trump, Beth Ostrosky and Howard Stern. (Photo: James Devaney/WireImage)

In fact, he thinks the situation Trump is in now (namely, that hes the president of the United States) might be bad for his health. I dont think its going to be a healthy experience, Stern said. All of this hatred and stuff directed toward him, its not good for him. Its not good. Theres a reason every president who leaves the office has gray hair. Stern then added that he worried that being president might actually be detrimental to [Trumps] mental health.

Meanwhile, the new POTUS was busy meeting with Harley-Davidson executives and swearing in Rex Tillerson as secretary of state. Stern added that he had already told Trump, point blank, that he wished the real estate tycoon had never run at all Now it seems the only question is whether that makes two of them.

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Howard Stern Claims Donald Trump Wants Hillary Clinton to Be President - Yahoo Autos

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

A contempt of the laws is the high road to anarchy.

Alexander Hamilton

Hillary Clintons email scandal and the Clinton Foundation scandal are back in the news, as they are likely to be for years to come. At his confirmation hearing, Attorney General-designate Jeff Sessions said he would recuse himself from all investigations involving the Clintons.

Last November, President Donald Trump said that his preference was for no further investigation of Hillary Clinton or the Clinton Foundation. A decision (which does not seem to have been made yet) not to continue any investigation raises at least three concerns:

1). Deciding whether to prosecute someone isnt normally the presidents decision to make. Its the job of the system.

The system may sound amorphous, but in fact the system is what we call the rule of law. That rule is not just an arcane concept that interests lawyers and public policy mavens. The rule of law is probably the single most important governing concept we have far more important than democracy. The rule of law elevates the weakest citizen to the level of the most powerful.

In this case, the rule of law would see the FBI and the Justice Department make the determinations whether or not to continue investigating and to prosecute. Nevertheless, the attorney general can always exercise prosecutorial discretion and decide to drop an investigation without necessarily traducing the rule of law. And if the AG (in this case the deputy AG, Mr. Sessions having recused himself) can make that decision, so can his boss, the president.

2) Dropping the case raises the question of fairness.

Fairness may be an elusive concept; even so, we tend to know its missing when we dont see it. It is true that its not always possible to be fair. Sometime its necessary to be just. But in this case, there are people who have done far less than what Mrs. Clinton has already been shown to have done and who have been punished for it. Why should they have to pay a price if she does not? The response that life is not fair does not entirely satisfy.

In 2009, Kristian Saucier, a Navy machinist, took six photos labeled confidential/restricted of the nuclear submarine USS Alexandrias classified propulsion system. Saucier was sentenced to one year in prison and six months of home confinement following his release, and to perform 100 hours of community service.

In 2015, Bryan H. Nishimura, a naval reservist deployed in Afghanistan in 2007 and 2008, pleaded guilty to unauthorized removal and retention of classified materials. There was no evidence, however, that Nishimura intended to distribute the classified information to unauthorized personnel. Nishimura pleaded guilty and was sentenced to two years of probation, assessed a $7,500 fine, and ordered to surrender any his security clearance.

And Gen. David Petraeus, hero of the Iraq War, gave classified material to another person who had a security clearance but no need to know. Gen. Petraeus was sentenced to two years probation and ordered to pay a $100,000 fine.

3) Danger lurks in curtailing the investigation.

Who knows what evils the Clinton Foundation engaged in? The answer is: Many people know the many people who have been investigating it. They know things. And it is almost inconceivable that there will be no leaks. Those leaks would embarrass Donald Trump for letting Mrs. Clinton escape, even as they would embarrass Mrs. Clinton always assuming its possible to embarrass a Clinton.

One can argue that continuing to investigate and perhaps prosecute Mrs. Clinton would continue to divide the nation, though we should note that it appears to be the hard-core left that is fomenting the divisive activity. Even so, one can argue that trying to heal that divide is more important than strictly observing the rule of law. Perhaps. People will differ.

What is more difficult to differ on, however, is how people like Nishimura and Saucier, and probably dozens like them, should be treated if Mrs. Clinton et al. are allowed to escape investigation, and perhaps prosecution and punishment.

If Mr. Trump decides to stop the investigation of the Clintons, he should also pardon all people currently in situations similar to those of Nishimura and Saucier. Such a pardon would be both fair and supportive of the rule of law because it would tend to equalize the small fry and the kingpins.

In addition, such pardons, especially if there were lots of them, would make apparent the venality of Mrs. Clinton and make the case for her guilt, but without the trauma of another Watergate-like circus. Mrs. Clinton, though free to spend time with her loving husband, would appear in the publics mind to be guilty, yet would have no way of being exonerated.

Thats not a perfect outcome. But its not bad either.

Daniel Oliver, chairman of the board of the Education and Research Institute and senior director of the White House Writers Group, previously served as chairman of the Federal Trade Commission under President Ronald Reagan.

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Hillary Clinton and the law - Washington Times