"This is not how Clinton expected her life to turn out: defending the principles of the republic in the sunset of her career, as the woman who has come closest to being America’s president. “I never had some grand plan,” she told the audience that night. “I never thought I’d marry somebody from Arkansas and end up there and he’d become governor and then become president. That one day I’d hear someone saying in the student lounge [at Yale law school], ‘and not only that, we grow the biggest watermelons in the world’. And I will say, ‘Who is that?’ and my friend will say, ‘That’s Bill Clinton, he’s from Arkansas, and that’s all he ever talks about.’ I had no idea what awaited me.”