Hillary Clinton


From that classic suburban childhood in a middle-class family to the First Lady
of the United States, she climbed the ladder of success through her talent,
confidence and personal hardships. She was born as Hillary Diane Rodham on
26th October, 1947 at Edgewater Hospital in Chicago, Illinois to her parents Hugh
Ellsworth Rodham, a prosperous fabric store owner, and Dorothy Emma Howell
Rodham, a homemaker. She grew up with two younger brothers Hugh and
Anthony. As a student she was very bright and her parents always encouraged her
as they did not want to limit her abilities and opportunities by gender. From the
very young age, she had deep interest in sports, including tennis, skating, ballet,
swimming, volleyball and softball. This active Scout earned every possible badge
as a Brownie and Girl Scout.

She joined Maine East High School, where she participated in student council, the
school newspaper, and was chosen for National Honor Society.

In 1965 she completed her graduation in the top five percent of her class as
National Merit Finalist. Besides these she was class president in high school,
a member of the student council, the debating team and the National Honor
Society and also the winner of Maine South High School's first social science
award.

Her performance:-

She got her first media exposure after becoming the first student
commencement speaker at Wellesley College and her speech was - "The
challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to
be impossible, possible." The speech was well received and an article was
written about her in Life.
In 1969 she attended Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut and
during her second year she worked at the Yale Child Study Center.

She became a member of the Board of Editors of Yale Law Review and
Social Action and met her future husband Bill Clinton at the Yale library.

The children’s advocate Marian Wright Edelman became her lifelong
mentor and with the help of her wrote her thesis on the rights of children
which is very popular and well recognized. In 1973 she became a legal
advisor at the Children's Defence Fund and advocated the cases of child
abuse at Yale-New Haven Hospital.

She volunteered at New Haven Legal Services to provide free legal advice
for the poor.

Since her election to the US Senate, advocate for middle-class families,
working to create jobs, expand children's health care and protect Social
Security from privatization.

After 9/11, Hillary has tried to strengthen our security and improve our
communications and intelligence operations and not only that she advocate
fiercely for proper equipment and health care for military families.
She was listed twice as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America.

Being the First Lady of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992
with husband Bill as Governor, she successfully led a task force to reform
Arkansas's education system.

She received sustained national attention for the first time when her
husband became a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination of
1992.

In 1994, as First Lady of the United States, her major initiatives were
the Clinton health care plan, in advocating the creation of the State
Children's Health Insurance Program, the Adoption and Safe Families Act,
and the Foster Care Independence Act.

In 1998, her marriage life was under stressed following the Lewinsky
scandal.

She was the American First Lady to run for public office and to serve in
a president's cabinet.

She draws media’s attention by The Whitewater controversy from the
publication of a New York Times report during the 1992 presidential
campaign.

She served on five Senate committees: Committee on Budget in the year
of 2001–2002, Committee on Armed Services in 2003, Committee on
Environment and Public Works since 2001,Committee on Health, Education,
Labor and Pensions (since 2001) and Special Committee on Aging. She was
also a Commissioner of the Commission since 2001.

In November 2004, Clinton announced that she would seek a
second Senate term. She was criticized by some Democrats for
spending $36 million for her reelection, more than any other candidate for
Senate in the 2006 elections did.

To support Obama she gave a passionate speech at the 2008 Democratic
National Convention and campaigned frequently for him in fall 2008, which
concluded with his victory over McCain in the general election.

In mid-November 2008, she had accepted the position as U.S. Secretary of
State in his administration.

The 2011 Egyptian protests posed the biggest foreign policy crisis for the
administration yet. In 2011 during Libyan civil war Clinton's shift in favor
of military intervention was a key turning point in overcoming internal
administration opposition and gaining the backing for, and Arab and U.N.
approval of, the 2011 military intervention in Libya.

In a December 2011 she has given her speech before the United Nations
Human Rights Council, that the U.S. would advocate for gay rights abroad
and that "Gay rights are human rights" and that "It should never be a crime
to be gay.

She also focused on writing those of women, children and families she met
during her travels around the world. She gifted us a vision for the children
of America in the book It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children
Teach Us. The book made the New York Times Best Seller list followed by
the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album in 1997 for the book's
audio recording. Her other books are- Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids' Letters
to the First Pets (1998) and An Invitation to the White House: At Home
with History (2000). In 2001, she wrote an afterword to the children's
book Beatrice's Goat.

In March 2011, she indicated that in serving a second term as Secretary of
State should Obama be re-elected in 2012. This legendary character visited
her 100th country during her tenure. The media often described her as
a polarizing figure.

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