Hillaryland was the self-designated name of a group of core advisors to Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is the 67th United States Secretary of State, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama. She was a United States Senator for New York from 2001 to 2009. As the wife of the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, she was the First Lady of the...

, when she was First Lady of the United States

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 and again when, as United States Senator, she was one of the Democratic Party

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 candidates for President in the 2008 election.

The group included Huma Abedin

Huma Abedin

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, Patti Solis Doyle

Patti Solis Doyle

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 (credited with coining the name "Hillaryland"), Mandy Grunwald

Mandy Grunwald

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, Neel Lattimore, Ann Lewis

Ann Lewis

Ann Lewis is an American political advisor who was Senior Advisor for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. She has served as the Director of Communications for HillPAC and Friends of Hillary 2005-2007 and from 1997–2000 as Director of Communications and then Counselor to Bill Clinton.Lewis is...

, Evelyn Lieberman, Tamera Luzzatto, Capricia Marshall

Capricia Marshall

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, Cheryl Mills

Cheryl Mills

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, Minyon Moore

Minyon Moore

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, Lissa Muscatine

Lissa Muscatine

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, Neera Tanden, Melanne Verveer

Melanne Verveer

Melanne S. Verveer is, since April 6, 2009, United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues. She is the former Chief of Staff to First Lady of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton and co-founder and chairman of the board of the Vital Voices Global Partnership, an international...

, and Maggie Williams

Maggie Williams

Margaret "Maggie" Ann Williams is a partner in Griffin Williams, a management-consulting firm. She was the campaign manager for Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign. Following Clinton's win in the New Hampshire primary in January 2008, Williams was brought onto the Clinton...

.

The group was distinguished by two facts: First, almost all are women; the only man in the group, former First Lady deputy press secretary Neel Lattimore, is gay

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. Second, most worked in the Clinton Administration

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, and have been personal friends and confidants of Hillary Clinton since at least then, if not earlier. Indeed the name Hillaryland dates back to the Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign

Bill Clinton presidential campaign, 1992

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, when it was the portion of the famed Little Rock, Arkansas

Little Rock, Arkansas

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 "war room" that housed Hillary Clinton's staff. Later it became better known as the moniker for the area of the West Wing

West Wing

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 of the White House

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 in which the First Lady

First Lady of the United States

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's staff had their offices; according to Clinton, Hillaryland had its own subculture

Subculture

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, based on camaraderie, never leaking information to the press, and having plenty of toys and cookies around for the children of staffers - as Hillary put it, "While the West Wing had a tendency to leak... Hillaryland never did, and every child who ever visited knew exactly where we stashed the cookies."

External links

• Michelle Cottle, "Hillary Control", New York Magazine
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  , August, 2007.