The next time former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calls the White House, they should just put her through.
Huma Abedin, in a Feb. 10, 2010, email to Clinton, passed along the news that then-Rep. Diane Watson, D-Calif., was retiring.
Clinton wrote that she wanted to call, but couldn’t because she was fighting with the operator at the White House.
“I’d like to call her,” she starts. “But right now I’m fighting w the WH operator who doesn’t believe I am who I say and wants my direct office line even tho I’m not there and I just have him my home # and the State Dept # and I told him I had no idea what my direct office # was since I didn’t call myself and I just hung up and am calling thru Ops like a proper and properly dependent Secretary of State—no independent dialing allowed.”
Clinton’s struggle brings to mind a scene from “The American President,” in which President Andrew Shepherd attempts to order flowers for his girlfriend. But in this instance, the operator is the one who hangs up.
