She fought with the White House operator. In an email chain from 2010, Clinton wrote to aideabout wanting to call a retiring US representative, but said she couldn't because she was trying to convince the White House operator that she was actually Hillary Clinton . "I'd like to call her. But right now I'm fighting w the WH operator who doesn't believe I am who I say and wants my direct office line even tho I'm not there and I just have him my home # and the State Dept # and I told him I had no idea what my direct office # was since I didn't call myself and I just hung up and am calling thru Ops like a proper and properly dependent Secretary of State– no independent dialing allowed," Clinton ranted.