Cultural and political image of Hillary Clinton During this time, the blended name "Billary" came to be used to refer to Bill and Hillary Clinton as a pair. Sidney Johnson, president of the Arkansas Education Association, said of the couple that "[s]omething would come down and you wouldn't know which one of them thought of it, where Bill stopped and Hillary began. That's why we called them 'Billary.'" One observer notes that "[t]he Clintons originally warmed to Billary because it suggested the public would get two smart politicians for one, but it soon became a term of derision for those who saw Hillary Rodham Clinton as too
Cultural and political image of Hillary Clinton powerful." Among the early users of "Billary" in a derogatory sense was Rush Limbaugh, in his 1993 book, "See, I Told You So". In some media, her name has been abbreviated as "Hill", particularly when used in combination with that of her husband, as "Bill and Hill". Clinton was assigned the Secret Service codename "Evergreen". Clinton continued to use "Hillary Rodham Clinton" on her website and elsewhere once she was a U.S. Senator. When she ran for president during 2007–08, she used the name "Hillary Clinton" or just "Hillary" in campaign materials, and appeared on state ballots as "Hillary Clinton".