I noted earlier this week that Hillary will be issuing a 10-year anniversary edition of her wonky child-rearing manual “It Takes a Village”-- now she’s bringing in her mother from the back bench to boost her family values credentials.

At a stop Tuesday with Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, Clinton said her 87-year old mother had come to live with her in her Washington home located near Embassy Row.

The New York Times reported that Clinton told a group of Long Island homeowners that “Your parents are blessed to have a family that cares about them.”

The Times reminded readers that Mrs. Rodham had been used for political purposes before. In Bill Clinton’s 1996 acceptance speech Mrs. Clinton lauded, ““Everybody knows there is only one person in the world who can really tell the truth about a man, and that’s his mother-in-law.”

The Times also reprinted the much disputed tale that Hillary was named after the Sir Edmund Hillary, the man who conquered Mount Everest in 1953. The problem is when he accomplished that feat, Hillary Rodham was a full six years old. Before rising to national fame as a mountaineer, Mr. Hillary was an unknown beekeeper.

It is possible Dorothy Rodham may have heard of Mr. Hillary in 1947 the year Hillary Rodham was born, but no record of his name in the American media of Sir Edmund Hillary the beekeeper has surfaced yet.