The first lady’s frustrations finally came to a head at a meeting ostensibly called to discuss a gas tax. Instead, it became a day of reckoning. With lawyerly precision, Hillary Clinton delivered a brutal critique of White House management. The economic team and the political team were not communicating. The communications team was ineffective. She was furious. “This is unacceptable and unfair to Bill,” she said, according to Woodward: The president had become the “mechanic-in-chief,” put in the position of tinkering instead of being the president who had a moral voice, who had a vision, who
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