Thinking about Vince Foster’s suicide today.

Deputy White House counsel Vince Foster was found dead in Fort Marcy Park off the George Washington Parkway in Virginia, outside Washington, D.C., on July 20, 1993. His death was ruled a suicide by multiple official investigations, but remains a subject of conspiracy theories.

In the process of re-reading the Hillary Clinton Quarterly story about the former First Lady and her involvement with Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan, I came across the name of Vince Foster. Also, today, I read an excellent article published on the CNN web site, How to Save a Friend from the Brink. I hope to have more about the CNN article in the near future.

But as I read about things to do and not do to save a friend from committing suicide, I wondered about Hillary and how she must have felt — and might still feel — about the death of her former law partner and friend, Vince Foster. Often enough we read the reactions of friends of suicide victims and learn how they struggle with feelings of guilt for not doing enough and anger that the victim left them with such emptiness and mystery.

Soon after I learned of Foster’s suicide, I wrote in HCQ:

The tragic death of deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster is a reminder to all of us that public officials and just functionaries hired to get a job done. They are, first of all, people. They have the same fears, dreams, and needs as the rest of us. In the heat of political warfare, it is easy to forget the humanness of those who, for the most part, do their best to serve us.

Foster’s death is a warning, too, that what others do to us, we often do to ourselves. In the dichotomy of being and doing, we are not just what we do. There’s a danger — whether we’re running a business, raising a family, or working in the White House — of becoming so absorbed in doing things, we forget our own humanity. We forget to take care of ourselves, to nurture those emotional and spiritual needs that ultimately make us who we are.

One of the last things Foster wrote before he shot himself was this: “I was not meant for the job or the spotlight of public life in Washington. Here ruining people is considered sport.”

Not much has changed in almost 20 years, has it?

Hillary Clinton and Madison Guaranty: Conflict of interest or bum rap?

The Hillary Clinton Quarterly has published online another original story from Hillary Clinton’s days as First Lady.

In Hillary Clinton and Madison Guaranty: Conflict of Interest or Bum Rap? our resident legal advisor, Matt Hallisey, investigated accusations made by Hillary’s critics that her involvement with Susan and James McDougal’s Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan when she was at the Rose Law Firm was a violation of the legal code of ethics.

When Hillary Rodham Clinton attended Yale Law School.

While attending Yale Law School in New Haven, CT, Hillary Rodham Clinton was introduced to the problems of children and the poor, developed a sense of activism, honed her leadership skills and even met her future husband, Bill Clinton. So it’s altogether appropriate that we should want to know more about Hillary’s time in New Haven.

The Hillary Clinton Quarterly has published a brief account of her time at Yale. To read the story, click here.

Lee Eisenberg arrested at his apartment.

Leeland Eisenberg, the man who stormed into Hillary Clinton’s Dover, NH, campaign office in November, 2007, was arrested this morning after a day as a fugitive.

Yesterday morning Eisenberg apparently cut off a pair of court-ordered ankle bracelets that monitored his movements. An extensive man-hunt across New Hampshire failed to find Eisenberg until he went back to his apartment this morning.

According to a Union Leader report, he was re-arrested at 11:10 am.