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I’ve downloaded part of the official calendar of Hillary Clinton’s time as First Lady, back when Bill Clinton was President of the United States. To be generous to Hillary Clinton, I’ve chosen the last full year of the Clinton presidency, a time when the impeachment nonsense was past, and when Hillary Clinton should have been quite up to speed on the workings of the White House. If there was a year when Hillary Clinton would have most strongly shown executive leadership in the White House, it would have been 2000.

This is going to take a while, but let’s start with January.

January 1:

10:00 AM - Hillary Clinton accompanies Bill Clinton as Bill Clinton gives a television and Internet address to the nation.
4:00 PM - Hillary Clinton attends a reception for Smithsonian staff in the Rose Garden

January 2:

11:00 AM - Hillary Clinton attends a religious service

January 3:

Nothing on Hillary Clinton’s calendar

January 4:

4:30 PM - A private meeting for 30 minutes. Who did Hillary Clinton meet with? That’s censored.

January 5:

Hillary Clinton flies up to the White Plains Airport, and is driven to Chappaqua.

January 6:

Hillary Clinton is driven to the White Plains Airport, and is driven to the White House.

January 7:

Noon to 12:30 PM - Hillary Clinton stops in to make an appearance at two video showings in the White House, one by the New Israel Fund, and another entitled “5 years after Beijing Conference”
12:30 PM - 1:55 PM - Hillary Clinton attends an “Issues Meeting” of unspecified topic.
2:00 - Hillary Clinton has a private meeting with someone. Who? It isn’t said.
3:00 - Hillary Clinton has another private meeting with someone whose name we don’t know.
3:45 - Hillary Clinton is on a conference call, topic unknown, participants unknown.
4:00 - Hillary Clinton has another telephone call. About what and with whom the call is with is not revealed.

January 8:

2:00 - 3:00 PM - Hillary Clinton has a private meeting with someone. We don’t know who, and we don’t know what it the meeting was about.

January 9:

Hillary Clinton flies up to a private residence somewhere in the New York City area, the “Jaffey Residence” for a “mix and mingle” meeting with 50 guests that lasts from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM. Hillary Clinton is then driven to Chappaqua.

January 10:

9:00 to 10:30 AM - Hillary Clinton has a private meeting at the offices of the Westchester County Democratic Party in White Plains.
10:45 to 11:15 AM - Hillary Clinton speaks to the press at the offices of the Westchester County Democratic Party in White Plains.
Hillary Clinton flies to Annapolis, Maryland.
1:35 to 3:30 - Hillary Clinton meets with the family of deceased Admiral Elmo Russell Zumwalt, and attends his memorial service.
Hillary Clinton flies to Rochester, New York, and goes to the Hyatt Hotel.
6:30 - 9:00 - Hillary Clinton goes to a cocktail reception and meets with local political leaders.
Hillary Clinton goes to a private residence, and stays the night there. Whose house was she in? That’s censored.

January 11:

7:20 AM - A call to prepare for going on the radio
7:48 to 7:55 AM - Hillary Clinton is on the local NPR affiliate station, WXXI
8:00 - 8:30 AM - Down Time
8:55 - 10:00 AM - Hillary Clinton tours a local grocery store
Unspecified time - Hillary Clinton visits Hobart and William Smith College
3:15 - 5:35 PM - Hillary Clinton holds a “town hall meeting” focusing on youth service
5:40 - 5:55 PM - Hillary Clinton does 2 television interviews
6:15 - 8:00 PM - Hillary Clinton meets local Democratic leaders in Geneva, New York
Hillary Clinton flies to White Plains Airport, and is driven to Chappaqua

January 12

10:20 - 11:00 AM - Hillary Clinton visits a meeting of a Rainbow/PUSH “Wall Street Project” in New York City
11:05 - 11:15 AM - Hillary Clinton has a private meeting. With who? That’s censored.
11:15 - 12:00 Noon - Hillary Clinton goes to a “mix and mingle” at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers
12:30 - 1:10 PM - Hillary Clinton has a private meeting at the offices of the Dreyfuss Charitable Foundation
1:30 - 4:40 PM - Hillary Clinton has “Down Time” at 116 East 65th Street, New York City
Hillary Clinton goes to Chappaqua

January 13

Noon - Hillary Clinton goes to an unspecified private residence and meets with people there.
2:35 PM to 4:40 PM - Hillary Clinton arrives at Adelphi University for a discussion of breast cancer.
5:25 PM - Hillary Clinton goes to an unspecified private residence and meets with people there.
Hillary Clinton goes to Chappaqua.

January 14

Hillary Clinton flies to Washington D.C. and goes to the White House.

January 15

10:40 AM - 1:40 PM - Hillary Clinton has three conference calls, two of them with the passcode “VICTORY”, and a third with “Chair: Bill de Blasio”

January 16

3:00 - 4:00 PM - Hillary Clinton has a private meeting in the White House with unspecified people about an unspecified topic

January 17

7:45 AM - Hillary Clinton has a “prep call”
8:35 AM - Hillary Clinton has a “photo opportunity” in the Diplomatic Reception Room
Hillary Clinton flies to LaGuardia Airport
10:40 AM - 10:50 AM Hillary Clinton goes to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and meets with people from the academy and “Borough President” and “Borough Deputy”
11:00 AM - Hillary Clinton attends a Brooklyn Academy of Music “Tribute to MLK”
12:10 PM to 12:25 PM - Hillary Clinton arrives at the Convent Baptist Church and meets with ministers there
12:30 PM to 12:40 PM - Hillary Clinton has a radio interview
12:45 to 1:30 PM - Hillary Clinton makes remarks at the Convent Baptist Church, and listens to others make remarks
1:55 to 3:45 PM - Hillary Clinton attends the Annual Forum of the National Action Network with Al Sharpton
3:50 - 4:10 PM - Hillary Clinton has a private meeting with an unspecified person on an unspecified topic
4:15 - 4:35 - Hillary Clinton speaks with the Press
6:30 - 7:30 PM - Hillary Clinton visits an unspecified private residence and has a private meeting there with unspecified people
Hillary Clinton goes to Chappaqua

January 18

11:15 AM - 11:30 AM - Hillary Clinton has a private meeting with an unspecified person at her home in Chappaqua.
12:00 Noon - 2:00 PM - Hillary Clinton goes to Purchase, New York, to the private residence of Carol Hankin, and meets with people there.
Hillary Clinton flies to Buffalo, New York.
4:10 PM to 5:10 PM - Hillary Clinton meets with “Hispanic Community Leaders at the Augustin “Pucho” Olivencia Community Center in Buffalo, New York.
5:20 - Hillary Clinton attends the formal receipt of the Senate endorsement of the Erie County Democratic Committee at the Augustin “Pucho” Olivencia Community Center.
6:15 - 6:30 - Hillary Clinton has interviews for broadcast media.
7:10 PM - 8:10 PM - Hillary Clinton goes to a “Steering Committee Meet & Greet” at a censored location.
8:10 - 8:15 PM - Hillary Clinton meets with people at the private residence of Carl Paladino.
9:30 - 10:30 - Hillary Clinton holds an iVillage Town Hall meeting - information related to this meeting is censored.
Hillary Clinton goes to an unspecified residence and stays the night there.

January 19

7:30 - 7:45 AM - Hillary Clinton has 4 radio interviews
7:50 - 8:45 AM - Down Time
9:10 - 10:00 AM - Hillary Clinton goes to the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society to meet with the mayor of Buffalo and the executive director of the historical society, and to engage in a “Millenium Cities Announcement”
10:00 - 10:15 AM - Hillary Clinton has a broadcast interview
10:35 - 1:00 PM - Hillary Clinton tours and gives a speech at the Westminster Community School
1:20 - 2:15 PM - Hillary Clinton visits the Cheektowaga Senior Center
Hillary Clinton flies from Buffalo to LaGuardia Airport, and then is driven to an unspecified private residence, where she holds a Hillary Rodham Clinton for Senate campaign fundraiser
Hillary Clinton flies back to Washington D.C. and goes to the White House

January 20

8:30 AM - Hillary Clinton does something, but all information about it is censored
9:30 - 9:45 AM - Hillary Clinton has a “Daily Call” (the first “daily call” we’ve seen so far) - Patti Solis Doyle is on the telephone, as is someone else, whose identity is censored.
9:45 - 9:50 AM - Hillary Clinton has a telephone call with the members of the Boys and Girls Club of Northern Westchester
12:35 - 12:55 PM - Hillary Clinton has a briefing with the President of the United States
1:00 - 1:55 PM - Hillary Clinton attends a “College New Opportunity Tax Cut Event” at Presidential Hall
2:00 - 2:10 PM - Hillary Clinton has her photograph taken with the University of Maryland Women’s Lacrosse Team
2:15 - 2:25 PM - “Drop by with Nancy Clark - Florist” in the State Dining Room

January 21

7:55 AM - “Prep call”
Hillary Clinton flies to LaGuardia Airport
10:00 - 10:30 AM - Hillary Clinton goes to a “Share Fair” at Fordham University
10:50 - 11:45 AM - Hillary Clinton has a private meeting at the Law Office of Victor Kovner
12:00 Noon - 12:15 PM - Hillary Clinton arrives at the Harvard Club in New York City and has a private meeting with an unspecified person
12:20 - 2:00 PM - Hillary Clinton attends a National Abortion Rights Action League Lunch
2:05 - 2:20 PM - Hillary Clinton makes herself available to the press.
Hillary Clinton flies back to Washington, D.C. and goes back to the White House

January 22

12:30 - 3:00 PM - Hillary Clinton has a private meeting with an unspecified person in the “Family Theater”
3:00 - 5:00 PM - Hillary Clinton attends a “Video Taping”
5:00 - 5:05 PM - Hillary Clinton attends a White House photo session
5:30 - 7:00 PM - Hillary Clinton attends a “Video Taping”

January 23

1:00 - 4:00 PM - Hillary Clinton has three private meetings with unspecified people on unspecified topics

January 24

Hillary Clinton flies to the White Plains Airport and is driven to Chappaqua
10:10 - 10:25 AM - Hillary Clinton goes to “Sam’s of Gedney Way” and meets with the Board of the New York State League of Conservation Voters
10:30 - 10:35 AM - Hillary Clinton has a private meeting with an unspecified person
10:40 - 11:15 AM - Hillary Clinton attends an “Environmental Event” at “Sam’s of Gedney Way”
12:05 PM - 1:55 PM - Hillary Clinton goes to the private residence of an unspecified person and meets with people there
2:50 - 3:40 PM - Hillary Clinton goes to Poughkeepsie to have a “photo receiving line” with elected officials there
5:15 PM - Hillary Clinton arrives at the Legislative Office Building in Albany
5:20 - 5:45 PM - Hillary Clinton attends “Empire State Pride Agenda”
6:00 - 6:15 PM - Hillary Clinton makes herself available to the press at the state Capitol Building
6:20 - 6:45 PM - Hillary Clinton attends a caucus meeting in Sheldon Silver’s office
6:50 - 8:00 PM - Hillary Clinton holds another “photo receiving line”
Hillary Clinton stays the night at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Albany

January 25

8:00 AM - “Prep Call”
8:30 - 8:40 AM - Two radio interviews
10:25 AM - Private meeting with Fran Turner, Executive Assistant to Denny Donoghue
10:30 - 11:15 AM - Private meeting with at the offices of the Civil Service Employees Association
11:45 - 12:00 Noon - Private meeting at the Desmond Hotel and Conference Center
12:05 - 12:20 PM - Photo receiving line
12:25 - 1:15 PM - Attend the New York State Council of Superintendents Conference
1:40 - 1:50 PM - Three television interviews
Hillary Clinton flies back to Washington D.C. and goes to the White House
7:30 PM - Conference call with “National Finance Board” chairperson Bill DeBlasio

January 26

Hillary Clinton flies to the Palm Beach Airport in Florida
11:00 AM - 12:05 PM - Hillary Clinton for Senate brunch at an unspecified private residence
12:05 - 12:20 PM - unspecified private meeting at the unspecified private residence
1:45 - 2:55 PM - attend the Women of Vision Luncheon at the Sheraton Bal Harbour
3:00 - 3:10 PM - photo opportunity
4:00 - 5:15 PM - attend a “Hillary 2000 Tea” at an unspecified private residence
5:50 - 8:35 PM - attend a “Hillary 2000″ Cocktail Reception and Dinner at the Loews Miami Beach Hotel
9:00 - 10:30 PM - attend a “Hillary 2000 Dessert” at the private residence of Domini and Sonia Puopolo
Hillary Clinton stays the night at an unspecified private residence

January 27

8:30 - 8:45 AM - Conference call - With who? The schedule doesn’t say.
9:15 - 10:30 AM - “Hillary 2000 Breakfast” at the unspecified private residence
Hillary Clinton flies back to Washington D.C. and goes to the White House
1:50 - 2:00 PM - private meeting with unnamed people in the White House map room
2:00 - 3:30 PM - private meeting with unnamed people in the White House private theater
4:00 - 5:30 PM - private meeting with unnamed people in the White House map room
5:30 - 5:40 PM - another private meeting with more unnamed people in the White House map room
8:30 PM - 10:20 PM - go to Congress to watch the State of the Union Address
10:45 PM State of the Union Address Reception

January 28

9:00 AM - 1:00 PM - “Phone time” - With who?
1:30 - 3:30 PM - Radio taping at “Waveworks” at 900 2nd Street NE, Washington, D.C.
3:50 PM - Arrive back at the White House and the day is done

January 29

Nothing to do today!

January 30

3:30 PM - Conference call - With who? The schedule doesn’t say. I guess it’s with the “Conference” people.

January 31

9:30 AM - 12:00 Noon - “Speech meeting” in the White House map room
12:20 - 1:45 PM - “Hillary 2000 Lunch” at the Mayflower Hotel on Connecticut Avenue in Washington, D.C.
3:30 - 4:45 PM - “Library Architects Meeting” - Who is paying for that big expensive presidential library? The Clinton campaign still refuses to say.
5:00 - 5:25 PM - “Videos” with OEOB Studio - does anyone know what or who that is? - Spirit of Women, World Summit Against Cancer, and “Pet Event” - all in 25 minutes?
5:30 PM - Going away party - For who? That’s censored.
6:50 - 8:00 PM - “Hillary 2000 Dinner Reception” - Mayflower Hotel
8:05 - 8:25 PM - Private meeting with Peter Prowitt and Susan Walters - G.E. Directors of Federal Affairs - As in General Electric?

That’s it.

I don’t know if January, 2000 is representative, in terms of the amount of time Hillary Clinton spent on any activities that could be categorized as executive leadership, providing her with the experience necessary to lead from “day one” as President, but I can say that Hillary Clinton’s activities in January, 2000 are extremely unimpressive. She spent almost the entire month promoting herself.

Hillary Clinton didn’t even spend the whole day of the State of the Union Address in Washington, D.C. Hillary Clinton seems to have had absolutely no input into the last State of the Union Address her husband had as President of the United States. No input at all. She just wasn’t around. That doesn’t speak very well of Hillary Clinton’s involvement in White House affairs.

How much White House executive leadership time did Hillary Clinton have in January, 2000? She had a 20 minute briefing with the President of the United States. Nothing more.

I still have to look at much of the other time that Hillary Clinton spent as First Lady, but so far, all Hillary Clinton seems qualified to do from her time in the White House is to have fundraisers and photo opportunities… from Day One!