Sunday, June 29, 2002 10:53 a.m. EDT

'Smartest Lawyer' Hillary
Flunked D.C. Bar Exam
NewsMax.com

When the late John F. Kennedy Jr. failed to pass the New York State bar exam his first time out, it merited front-page headlines like the New York Post's "The Hunk That Flunked."

So, where are the headlines now that president-in-waiting Hillary Clinton, aka one of America's top 100 lawyers, has admitted she flunked the Washington, D.C., bar exam in 1973?

After all, Mrs. Clinton's genius IQ is still routinely touted in press write-ups. Earlier this month, for instance, New York Post gossip maven Cindy Adams described her as "the smartest, sharpest, savviest lady in captivity ... so brilliant and focused ... so far, ain't nobody smarter to come down the pike."

But there it is on page 64 of Hillary's own memoir, "Living History": her confession that she flunked the D.C. bar exam:

"I was lonely and missed Bill more than I could stand. I had taken both the Arkansas and the Washington, D.C., bar exams during the summer, but my heart was pulling me toward Arkansas. When I learned that I had passed in Arkansas but failed in D.C., I thought that maybe my test scores were telling me something."