US:Hillary Clinton contemplated divorce out of a sense of rage at her husband's affairs, according to an extensive new biography by Carl Bernstein, the former Washington Post reporter who uncovered the Watergate scandal with Bob Woodward.
A Woman in Charge: The Life of Hillary Rodham Clinton also discloses how terrified she was about the prospect of being prosecuted over the alleged Whitewater financial scandal. Bernstein suggests that she has skirted along the edge of the truth at times.
He details the full extent of the Clintons' troubled relationship and says that Bill Clinton considered leaving his wife in 1989 in favour of Marilyn Jo Jenkins, a company executive.
Ms Clinton, one of the front-runners in the race for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 US presidential election, refused to accept a divorce. "There are worse things than infidelity," she is reported to have told Betsey Wright, chief of staff to Mr Clinton when he was governor of Arkansas.
But Ms Clinton did not remain sanguine for long. Out of rage at her husband's behaviour, she toyed in 1990 with the idea of standing for governor of Arkansas in his place, according to Bernstein. - (Guardian Service)