A draft dodger, a marijuana smoker, and a Democrat, he represented everything they despised about the 1960s. And then there was his wife. She had advocated for civil rights and children’s rights and had campaigned for the antiwar liberal George McGovern and the masculinity-challenged Jimmy Carter. Even worse, as a feminist and a career woman, Hillary Rodham had provoked the ire of religious conservatives when she refused to take her husband’s name. (She later changed her name in an attempt to appease critics and smooth her husband’s path forward.)
