Rewind
2001 Bill Clinton had finished his embattled two-term presidency on January 20, but his 11th-hour pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich “pushed the public to its limit.” Sources told Newsweek that Hillary Clinton, then a recently elected senator from New York, was furious; “the rocky start of her husband’s new life” had obscured coverage of her first floor speech the week before.” The former president, meanwhile, was enjoying his new office in New York’s Harlem, “among his most loyal supporters, African-Americans,” ready “to launch yet another campaign as the Comeback Kid.”