Before The Emails or Benghazi or a blue Gap dress, Hillary Clinton dealt with a much less controversial stain on her character, which was that she reportedly liked to gab with high-profile dead people. In the 1996 book The Choice: How Bill Clinton Won, author Bob Woodward, no stranger to a good scandal, wrote that the former First Lady communicated with Eleanor Roosevelt and Mahatma Gandhi during her husband’s term—though not Jesus, as that would’ve been, according to Woodward’s retelling, “too personal.” “I occasionally have imaginary conversations with Mrs. Roosevelt to try to figure out what she would do in my shoes,” Clinton wrote in a newspaper column. “She usually responds by telling me to buck up or at least to grow skin as thick as a rhinoceros.” Videos by VICERead more: Inside the Bizarre Astrological Drama over Hillary Clinton’s Birth Chart Sensational interpretations quickly followed: Clinton was holding seances in the White House. Alas, the fun didn’t last long, as sacred p...
