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Portrait of the Candidate as a College Student

Teen correspondence shows new side of young Hillary Rodham

By Caroline Miller,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 29, 2007 7:43 AM CDT

(Newser) – The first shock is to remember that college students used to actually write letters. To friends from high school, even. One of Hillary Clinton's bookish buddies from Park Ridge, Ill., then a Princeton undergrad and now a professor at Scripps College, saved her dispatches from Wellesley and shares the revelatory dispatches with the New York Times.

Most compelling, perhaps, to those who came of age in the late '60s, they are self-absorbed and self-effacing, charting her journey from Young Republican to McCarthyite with humor, yet without damaging admissions of indulgence in mind-altering substances. Of leadership, she has this to say: “If people react to you in the role of answer bestower then quite possibly you are."

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., address delegates at the National Convention of College Democrats, Saturday, July 28, 2007, at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., address delegates at the National Convention of College Democrats, Saturday, July 28, 2007, at the University of South Carolina in...   (Associated Press)
Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks during an economic policy town hall meeting Friday, July 27, 2007, at West Virginia State University in Institute, W.Va. (AP Photo/Jeff Gentner)
Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., speaks during an economic policy town hall meeting Friday, July 27, 2007, at West Virginia State University in Institute, W.Va. (AP Photo/Jeff...   (Associated Press)
New York Senator Hillary Clinton listens during the CNN/YouTube...
New York Senator Hillary Clinton listens during the CNN/YouTube...   (Getty Images)
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