Remember during the 1992 election campaign when Candidate Clinton told America in a Nightline television interview, “And my slogan might well be, ‘Buy one, get one free?’”

The day before, Jerry Brown, competing for the Democrat presidential nomination, had accused the Arkansas governor saying, “He is funneling money through his wife’s law firm for state business. That’s number one.”

Mrs. Clinton jumped in, responding to the charge, and said, “You know, I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies … .”

Immediately, she became part of the controversy.

Governor Clinton was asked, “Would she (Hillary), in effect, be a full partner, a co-president?”

He replied, “No, she wouldn’t be a co-president. We have our differences of opinion and, in the end, I have to decide.”

In the fall of 1993, when the new President William Jefferson Clinton took the unprecedented step of naming his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, to head the task force to implement government-controlled health care, Americans learned that Bill and Hillary” were dead serious about expanding the meaning of the phrase “twofer.”

After deliberating under a cloud of secrecy, Mrs. Clinton’s task force produced its report numbering more than 1,000 pages.

The brouhaha that followed the rejection of government-controlled health care, and the criticism of Mrs. Clinton’s non-elected role in the task force, prompted many to wish that the future senator from New York would indeed retire to the kitchen and bake cookies.

Remember the celebrated series of television ads in which the actors portrayed a prototypical American couple named Harry and Louise?

The dialogue included Louise saying, “This plan forces us to buy our insurance through those new mandatory government health alliances.”

“Run by tens of thousands of new bureaucrats,” added Harry.

“Having choices we don’t like is no choice at all,” replied Louise.

“They choose, we lose,” both concluded with evident disapproval.”

In her 1996 book Boomerang: Health Care Reform and the Turn against Government, author and Harvard professor Theda Skocpol observed, “that the Clinton proposal surrounded its promised benefits for average Americans with tight, new regulations … only to fall victim instead to the political pitfalls of substituting regulations for spending.”

Fast forward to today. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, (D-N.Y.) is a candidate for president.

As the front-runner among many other candidates for the Democrat party nomination, Mrs. Clinton enjoys broad support among the mainstream media and the deep pocket supporters that encompass business, industry, lobbyists and Hollywood.

Already, we have seen Bill come to her rescue a number of times.

Most recently, after last week’s Democrat debate, when Tim Russert asked candidate Clinton about the release of former Clinton administration documents, specifically regarding her role in the 1993-94 health care task force.

Bill Clinton said, Russert’s question “was breathtakingly misleading.”

Mr. Clinton also said that “under the presidential documents law, he is not required to release any material until 2012.”

He added, “Unlike previous presidents, I have already released one million pages of documents, about half of which affect Hillary — the records of the health care task force.

Recently, the Republican National Committee released a statement pointing out that former President Clinton’s “remarks referred not to the records of the health care task force but to records of a separate panel working on the issue, (known during his administration as) the White House Health Care Interdepartmental Working Group.”

Mrs. Clinton has a new plan to more broadly establish government controlled health care. It is part of her campaign for president.

This time around it will be Bill, who is the candidate for “first man.” And the former president is a consummate retail politician.

Can you see it now? Flash forward to 2008.

There is a special “60 Minutes” program that will be scheduled to start after Super Bowl 2008.

The American people will get to watch the happy couple live for the full hour. And, dutifully, the anchor will ask the question everybody is waiting to hear.

And the new candidate Clinton will say, “And my slogan might well be, “Buy one, get one free.”

Senator Clinton will be asked, “Would he (Bill), in effect, be a full partner, a co-president?”

She will reply, “No, he wouldn’t be a co-president. We have our differences of opinion and, in the end, I have to decide.”

And, so will the American people — have to decide. First, the decision will be in the hands of only registered Democrats. Then, the decision may be left in the hands of all registered American citizen voters.

Perhaps, the question, if it gets to all of us, will turn not only on what a President H.R. Clinton might appoint Bill to head up in another Clinton administration. Americans know Bill enjoys cookies. The question is: In which kitchen will Hillary bake the cookies?

Want to try baking Hillary’s chocolate chip cookies? Send an e-mail, and we will reply with her recipe.