On Tuesday, I asked if I knew anyone knew the sourcing on this quote from Sally Bedell Smith’s WSJ op-ed, which also apparently appears in her book (my emphasis):

For many years, one of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s closest friends, TV producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, has been fond of saying that when the Clintons “are dead and gone, each of them is going to be buried next to a president of the United States.”

It is an idea that the Clintons began talking about decades ago. Back in 1974, Bill Clinton told his friend Diane Kincaid that Hillary “could be president someday.” During his own presidential campaign in 1992, he said in an interview, “Eight years of Hillary Clinton? Why not?”

I was tipped that the quote originates in Gail Sheehy’s book Hillary’s Choice (pp. 197-198).

While Bedell Smith makes it sound like Bill Clinton brought up the idea of “[e]ight years of Hillary Clinton” unprompted, Sheehy apparently drew out the statement in question:

Eight years of Bill, eight years of Hill.

That was the dream. It was Hillary’s private slogan, shared with one of her closest intimates, Linda Bloodworth-Thomason. Early in his 1992 presidential campaign, I asked then Governor Clinton if he was concerned about being upstaged by his wife. He was unfazed. “I’ve always liked strong women. It doesn’t bother me for people to see her and get excited and say she could be president too.”

“So, after eight years of Bill Clinton?” I teased.

“Eight years of Hillary Clinton,” he said. “Why not?”

While Bedell Smith’s representation of this quote isn’t as bad the other distortions catalogued by Media Matters, she is still omitting relevant context.