What can I say to explain a love that has persisted for decades?—Living HistoryWHEN HILLARY CLINTON met Bill Clinton she was no fatalist. She fervently believed that a person could control her own destiny and that she, Hillary, could never give herself over to vague forces, or to somebody else’s dominating personality, as she knew her mother had disastrously done. She did not believe that an individual—particularly herself—was powerless to change either events or the nature of other people, and she went about both tasks tenaciously.But time after time, in Hillary’s courtship and marriage with Bill Clinton, she was confronted with the obvious: He was beyond her control when it came to other women. It wasn’t his pursuit of extramarital sex per se that so riled her, she once said. She had come to view her husband almost as an adolescent when it came to his sexual sensibilities and compulsions, and attributed them to the pathology of his unusual childhood. “There are worse things than infidelity,”
