evidence: But that’s not the way Clinton herself tells it. In her 2003 memoir, Living History, she wrote that she "actively participated" in the internal debate on welfare reform. "I wanted to influence his decision," she wrote. She threatened to go public with her opposition to the first bill the GOP presented, she wrote—which would have been a first for her speaking out against her husband’s administration—but that once the third bill came back with changes, "I agreed that he should sign it and worked hard to round up votes for its passage." [...] Hillary knew these facts. Yet, she wrote, the program "fed taxpayer resentment," adding, "I didn’t think it was fair that one single mother improvised to find child care and got up early every day to get to work while another stayed home and relied on welfare." Reform "was a historic opportunity to change a system oriented toward dependence to one that encouraged independence."