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Hillary Clinton
Hillary Diane Rodham was born in Chicago, Illinois, on October 26, 1947.Her father owned a fabric store, & her mother was a full-time mother & homemaker.
Two brothers, Hugh and Tony, soon followed. Hillary's childhood in Park Ridge, Illinois, was happy and disciplined. She loved sports and her church, and was a member of the National Honor Society, and a student leader. Her parents encouraged her to study hard and to pursue any career that interested her.
Hillary Entered Wellesley College in 1965. As an undergraduate at Wellesley College, Hillary mixed academic excellence with school government. Speaking at graduation, she said, "The challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible."
In 1969, Hillary entered Yale Law School, where she served on the Board of Editors of Yale Law Review & Social Action, interned with children's advocate Marian Wright Edelman, & met Bill Clinton. He often recalls how they met in the library when she strode up to him & said, "If you're going to keep staring at me, I might as well introduce myself." The two were soon inseparable-partners in moot court, political campaigns, & matters of the heart.
After graduation, Hillary advised the Children's Defense Fund in Cambridge & joined the impeachment inquiry staff advising the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives. After completing those responsibilities, she "followed her heart to Arkansas," where Bill had begun his political career. They married in 1975.
Hillary joined the faculty of the University of Arkansas Law School in 1975 & the Rose Law Firm in 1976.
In 1978, President Jimmy Carter appointed her to the board of the Legal Services Corporation, and Bill Clinton became governor of Arkansas.
Chelsea, was born in 1980.
During the 1992 presidential campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton observed, "Our lives're a mixture of different roles. Most of us're doing the best we can to find whatever the right balance is . . . For me, that balance is family, work, & service." As the nation's First Lady, Hillary balanced public service with private life. Her active role began in 1993 when the President asked her to chair the Task Force on National Health Care Reform. She was a leading advocate for expanding health insurance coverage, ensuring children are properly immunized, & raising public awareness of health issues. She wrote a weekly newspaper column entitled "Talking It Over," which focused on her experiences as First Lady & her observations of women, children, & families she has met around the world. Her 1996 book It Takes a Village & Other Lessons Children Teach Us was a best seller, & she received a Grammy Award for her recording of it. As First Lady, her public involvement with many activities sometimes led to controversy. Undeterred by critics, Hillary won many admirers for her staunch support for women around the world and her commitment to children's issues. She was elected United States Senator from New York on November 7, 2000. She's the first First Lady elected to the United States Senate & the first woman elected statewide in New York...
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Quotes:
"Marriage has got historic, religious and moral content that goes back to the beginning of time, and I think a marriage is as a marriage always has been, between a man and a woman." - Hillary Clinton, opposing same-sex marriages, quoted in The New York Daily News.
"The clearest way to know whether you are with a poor person in America is not by the logo on the clothes, because we all wear pretty much the same anymore. It's by looking into their eyes and seeing whether they look into yours, and seeing what kind of teeth they have." - Hillary Clinton, at a meeting for Jesse Jackson's Rainbow Push Wall Street Project, AP.
"I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history," Hillary Clinton (Associated Press, concerning Kosovo).
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