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     Hillary Clinton had a new rendezvous with destiny on her mind.  Her motorcade sped toward Roosevelt Island on the morning of June 13, 2015.  In a little more than an hour, she would officially kick off what she hoped would be a trailblazing, glass-ceiling-shattering campaign for the presidency.  For most of the previous forty-eight hours, she had been trying to give a feel of historic importance to her first major address.  It just wasn't there yet.

-Nathan Allen & Amie Parnes, Shattered:  Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign