Hillary Clinton: What Happened

NATO, 218, 328, 335, 372

Nayak, Navin, 65, 467

NBC, 291, 403

Commander in Chief Forum, 217–22

Meet the Press, 232

News, 48, 341

Netherlands, 365, 408–9

Nevada, 65, 70, 71, 73, 385, 402

New Bedford, Mass., 200

New Deal, 78, 451

New Hampshire, 61–62, 70, 71, 123, 214, 226, 385, 412

New Haven Legal Services Clinic, 199

New Jersey, 247

New Labour Party, 235

New Markets Tax Credit, 282

New York, 318

New York (state), 250, 266

New York City, 102–3

9/11 and, 129, 221; see also September 11 attacks

Pride Parade in, 102–3

New York Daily News, 86, 392

New Yorker, 368

New Yorker Hotel, 17–18

New York Post, 86, 317, 349

New York Times, 60, 86, 222, 319–21, 335, 341, 342, 348, 352, 406, 457

DNC hacking and, 337–38

Eleanor Roosevelt obituary in, 448

email controversy and, 301–5, 307, 313, 315, 319–20

Hillary Clinton endorsed by, 319

and Trump’s ties to Russia, 320, 354–55, 357

New York Times Magazine, 437

New York Yankees, 100

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 2

Nikkels, Santa, 86

9/11 attacks, see September 11 attacks

Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell), 9

Nineteenth Amendment, 14, 248

Nixon, Richard, 5, 198, 200, 345, 366, 375

Noah, Trevor, 222

No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project, 43

North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU), 43

North Carolina, 49, 377, 383, 384

North Dakota, 247

North Korea, 220, 233, 328, 338

Norway, 365

Nouwen, Henri, 33, 34, 172

NPR, 256, 308

NRA (National Rifle Association), 142, 174, 180–83, 185–87, 188, 191

nuclear power plants, 370

nuclear weapons, 218, 220, 221, 223

Nuland, Toria, 331, 339

Nunn, Michelle, 49

Nyad, Diana, 51

Obama, Barack, xiv, 8, 31, 43, 48, 49, 52–53, 69, 75, 79, 97, 103, 122, 123, 128, 143, 175, 221, 225, 227, 228, 230, 237, 252, 267, 273, 276, 283, 350, 371, 400–401, 409–10, 421, 422, 442, 450, 451, 452, 465

Benghazi attack and, 298

birth certificate of, 6, 7, 366–67, 415

at Democratic National Convention (2016), 250, 253–543

early life of, 111–12

email controversy and, 308

energy policies of, 270, 274

farewell address of, 444

Flynn and, 336

gun laws and, 186, 187

Hillary Clinton appointed Secretary of State by, 52, 53

Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign and, 53, 55, 65, 66–68, 74, 77, 377, 378, 383, 385, 386, 394

inauguration of, 6

presidential campaign of 2008, 26, 63, 64, 68, 83, 243–44

presidential campaign of 2012, 63, 64, 66, 71

Putin and, 327, 356

racism and, 414

Russia and, 328, 330, 333, 355–56

and Russian interference with election, 351, 352, 354, 356, 358

Trump’s accusations of wiretapping by, 9–10

at Trump’s inauguration, 6

working-class voters and, 417

Obama, Michelle, 42, 52, 69, 377, 386, 465

at Democratic National Convention, 249, 340, 378

at Trump’s inauguration, 6

Obamacare (Affordable Care Act), 8, 12, 48, 50, 66, 155, 229, 233, 234, 236, 238, 277, 281–84, 286, 442, 450, 453

Occupy Wall Street movement, 225

O’Connor, Flannery, 260

O’Connor, Michael, 468

O’Connor, Sandra Day, 170

Ogar, Laura, 468

Ohio, 59–60, 64, 65, 74, 263–64, 266, 271, 383, 384, 411, 419

O’Keefe, Kevin, 467

O’Leary, Ann, 467

Oliver, Mary, 46, 170

One Hundred Years of Solitude (García Márquez), 153

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Snyder), 9

Onward Together, 453, 468

opioid epidemic, 42, 61–62, 203, 236, 281–82

Orlando nightclub shooting, 187

Orwell, George, 9

Packnett, Brittany, 203

Page, Carter, 336, 354, 357

Painton, Priscilla, 468

Pally, Maura, 467Palmieri, Jennifer, 69, 313, 314, 342, 381, 467

Pam, 61, 62, 80

Panda Principle, 84

Panetta, Leon, 221

Pantsuit Nation, 127, 361

Paris, 278

Parker, Christopher, 414

Parkhomenko, Adam, 467

Patterson, Thomas, 220

Paul, Alice, 14

Paul, Matt, 60, 70, 467

Paul, Saint, 34

Paulson, Hank, 239

PBS, 78

Peabody Energy, 269, 270

Pearce, Anne Tate, 468

Pelosi, Nancy, 11–12, 250

Pence, Mike, 322

Pendleton, Cleo, 175, 179

Pendleton, Hadiya, 175

Peninsula Hotel, 377, 379, 381

Pennsylvania, 64, 74, 266, 278, 384, 385, 394, 395, 397, 407, 411, 412

Penny, Louise, 29

pension funds, 43

people of color, 10, 176, 278, 444

and economic anxiety vs. bigotry in voters, 410–18

Latinos, 128, 177, 424, 442

Mexican immigrants, 7, 15, 224–25, 232, 233, 277, 413, 415

see also African Americans; Muslims

Perez, Tom, 421–22

Perkins, Frances, 125

Perkins Coie, 465

Perlman, Adam, 468

Perry, Katy, 95

Peterson, Lauren, 467

Petraeus, David, 221

Pew Research Center, 127, 399

Philadelphia, Pa., 184, 255, 377, 378, 384, 402

Philadelphia Inquirer, 397

Pierce, Charles, 320

Piercy, Marge, 192

Pittsburgh, Pa., 278, 377, 384

Planned Parenthood, 34, 93, 130–31

Platten, Rachel, 95

Plouffe, David, 53–54, 65

Podesta, John, 54–55, 65, 69, 83, 294, 339, 345, 347, 348, 357, 384, 385, 406, 467

pizzeria claims and, 351–52

police officers, 173–80, 184–85, 203, 204–6, 415

policy(ies), 217–41, 272, 380, 467–68

budgets and, 224

“bumper sticker” ideas in, 234

Hillary Clinton’s campaign team for, 224, 226

inspirational vs. practical approaches to, 223–25, 227, 230, 231, 234

media coverage of, 222–23, 236, 289, 380

progressive, 53, 74, 77–79, 131, 185, 197, 201, 226–27, 229–31, 235, 422

putting back into politics, 234

of Sanders, 226–31, 234

targeted programs in, 238

Trump and, 231–32, 414

politics, 201

authenticity and likeability in, 121–25, 232

emotions and crying in, 122–24

women in, 111–45, 209

PolitiFact, 321

Pollitt, Katha, 157

pollsters, 65, 75, 379, 401–5

populism, 78, 188, 237, 273, 276, 400, 411, 422

Portman, Rob, 411

poverty, 196, 197, 208, 236, 238, 268, 413, 442

and epidemic of despair, 267–68

in Flint, 210, 211

welfare and, 206–8, 267

Powell, Colin, 51, 293, 296, 297, 299, 307

“Power of the Powerless, The” (Havel), 458

Praeli, Lorella, 93–94

prayer, 31–32

presidential campaigns and elections, 5, 201

of 1992, 65, 74, 90, 195, 236, 267, 286, 340, 397, 433, 435, 456, 457

of 2000, 5

of 2008, 23, 26, 41, 47, 52, 53, 60, 63–64, 66, 68, 70, 75, 83, 88, 195, 243–44, 279, 386

of 2012, 63, 64, 66, 71

presidential election of 2016:

authenticity and likeability issues in, 124–25, 232

caucuses in, 70, 71, 73, 245, 247

Democratic National Convention in, see Democratic National Convention of 2016

Election Day and Night, 377–89, 401–3

Electoral College in, 378, 386–87, 406, 407

first days after, 17–23

Hillary Clinton’s campaign in, see Clinton, Hillary Rodham, 2016 presidential campaign of

press coverage of, see media

primaries in, 70, 71, 73, 75, 102, 130, 185, 195, 211, 214, 225, 226, 230, 243–45, 247, 263, 411

reasons for outcome of, 391–425

Republican National Convention in, 249, 255, 300, 337

Russian interference in, 3, 233, 291, 304–5, 312, 318, 320, 333, 337–46, 350–65, 369–70, 374, 375, 381, 392, 393, 406–7, 409, 423