@ehBeth,
ehBeth wrote:
Incorrect. I knew Ira Magaziner was covered in the same profile.
You mean
President Ira Magaziner?
Look, my point is pretty simple: one doesn't go from a
Life Magazine profile in 1969 to the presidency in a single bound. I doubt many people in, say, 2000 remembered Clinton from that article. Indeed, I doubt many people in 1969 remembered Clinton from that article -
Life, after all, was on its last legs at that point (it ceased publication in 1972). In short, getting profiled in
Life nearly fifty years ago didn't clinch the 2016 Democratic nomination for Clinton. Without that profile, her life would have pretty much turned out the same. Without her marriage to Bill Clinton, however, it's unlikely she'd be in the position she finds herself in today.