By David Martosko, U.s. Political Editor PUBLISHED: 15:34 EST, 12 February 2014 | UPDATED: 13:48 EST, 13 February 2014 Chelsea Clinton was the butt of jokes at Stanford University in the late 1990s as her father battled impeachment and fended off the national scandal of his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. And first lady Hillary Clinton kept careful track of her experiences in the White House, especially during her ill-fated 1994 'HillaryCare' effort to nationalize the health care industry, confiding in long-time friend Diane Blair that she might one day need her notes for 'revenge.'
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Revelations come from the archives of Diane Blair, a University of Arkansas political science professor who knew the Clintons for decades
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Hillary, she wrote, thought she would need to remember who helped and who hurt her during her ill-fated march toward nationalized 'HillaryCare'
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Bill Clinton's affair with intern Monica Lewinsky and his ensuing impeachment battle caused daughter Chelsea no end of embarrassment
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Stanford classmates would jeer whenever family portraits were shown on TV, Hillary recalled, and it 'just killed her'
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A love letter in Blair's files from a young and passionate Bill may indicate a romance between the two, since the much younger future president jokingly refers to himself as having once been 'even younger'
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The Blair archive caught political fire on Sunday for Hillary's reference to @placeholder as 'a narcissistic looney-tune.'
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