First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton described as “an outrageous lie” a new book’s claim that she called an aide to her husband a “Jew bastard” after Bill Clinton’s unsuccessful bid for Congress in 1974. “I have spent a lifetime devoted to increasing tolerance. This never happened,” the first lady said.
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