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Hillary Clinton had read some 43 biographies of her predecessors to prepare for becoming first lady, according to her close friend Diane Blair. But ultimately, Clinton would chart her own course.

New documents, recollections and letters collected by Blair and obtained by ABC News about Clintons time as first lady show a Clinton simultaneously struggling during the low points of her husbands presidency and moving steadily toward satisfying her personal ambition -- even when it polarized the public and activated her enemies.

Just visited with Hillary. I told her how fascinating I found the latest spate of Hillary-at-two years stories, and she expressed her total exasperation with all this obsession and attention, and how hard shes finding to conceal her contempt for it all, Blair wrote.

Clinton discussed often a desire to correct the record and was frustrated by a seemingly endless spate of stories that she could totally refute, according to Blair.

Yet Clinton feared keeping records of thoughts and conversations in a diary that she might use to eventually write her own history because they might also be subpoenaed by the Clintons political enemies, Blair noted.

Blair, a political science professor at the University of Arkansas and a longtime friend of both Bill and Hillary Clinton, mused that Hillary had instinctively done First Ladylike things to cover for her policy stuff as a way of mitigating the backlash over her more active role in policy making in her husband's administration.

In her most private conversations with her friend Blair, Clinton is often faced by what Blair described as being a pioneer in an anachronistic role.

But Blair also laid some of the blame at Bill Clintons feet.

She suggested that a big problem had been Bill Clinton being less than presidential, which [Hillary] warned against from the beginning.

[Hillary] said hed been trying really hard - he thought it was rude to walk off from questions, but is beginning to see that he must, Blair said, a reference to Clintons famous tendency of answering virtually every question from reporters during media availabilities.

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