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trail,” this friend said in an interview. “Bill insisted any way, and he approached Dean Ornish [the founder of the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, California] to help find a suitable doctor. Ornish has been close to the Clintons for twenty years. It was he who put Bill on a plant-based vegan diet. And he might become surgeon general if Hillary gets into the White House.”

    Bill’s worst fear was that Hillary would stumble physically or fall at a critical moment in the campaign and reveal that she wasn’t up to handling the job of commander in chief. One night in their bedroom at Chappaqua, he gently approached the question of how the presidential campaign was affecting her health.
    â€œBill told me that he tiptoed into the dangerous territory of suggesting that maybe Hillary should rethink whether she had the physical stamina to take on the tortures of a presidential campaign,” said one of Bill’s closest friends. “Hillary blew up and said, ‘You’re acting like a fucking quitter and a loser. You’re projecting your own health problems onto me. I’m not dying.’
    â€œBill raised both hands in surrender and said, ‘Don’t shoot,’” the friend continued. “Hillary had a hairbrush in her hand, and Bill was afraid she was going to throw it at him. But she restrained herself with great effort.
    â€œHe wants her to be president, but he doesn’t want her to kill herself doing it. He told me he has tried to bring up the subject with Chelsea, thinking that she would share his concern about her mother’s health. But Chelsea has her mother’s determination and passion to go on no matter what the cost. There is no way that Bill is going to get any help from her.”

    It was a short distance from the Chappaqua house to Bill’s home office, which was located in a converted red barn. However, after the crisis meeting with Podesta, Carville, and Begala, Bill didn’t feel well enough to make it to the barn on his own. He climbed into a golf cart and, with Hillary and her friends keeping pace beside him, scootered over to the barn. It was full of his favorite books and souvenirs from his travels, including an incongruous cigar-store Indian.
    After a while, another old Clinton hand, Donna Shalala, made an appearance. A tiny, energetic woman with close-cropped hair, Shalala had served as the secretary of health and human services under President Clinton, and then transitioned into a career as president of the University of Miami. She was known as a tough, no-nonsense manager, and Hillary had asked her to take over as the Clinton Foundation’s new president and chief executive. The previous president of the foundation had quit in disgust over its dubious practices.
    â€œDonna was one of Hillary’s closest friends and most trusted operators,” said a source with knowledge of Shalala’s appointmentas head of the foundation. “They had served together on the board of the Children’s Defense Fund. Hillary was sorry that Donna had stayed as long as she had at the University of Miami, because Hillary was convinced that the chaos at the foundation wouldn’t have happened if Donna had been in charge.
    â€œHillary hoped that Donna would crack the whip and set things right again,” the source continued. “She was convinced that the Obamas would like nothing better than to see the foundation go down in flames—and her reputation with it. Privately, among a few very close friends, Hillary admitted that things were even worse at the foundation than had been reported in the Times and elsewhere. It was a hell of a mess.”
    Bill was extremely fond of Donna, too, but he had opposed her appointment. He saw it as an unwanted intrusion into the affairs of his personal enterprise. He didn’t make a distinction between himself and the foundation; they were one and the same to him.