112 Facts About Hillary Diane Rodham

Hillary Diane Clinton is an American politician, diplomat, and former lawyer who served as the 67th United States secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, as a United States senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and as First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001 as the wife of President Bill Clinton.

Hillary Diane Rodham was appointed the first female chair of the Legal Services Corporation in 1978 and became the first female partner at Little Rock's Rose Law Firm the following year.

Hillary Diane Rodham was re-elected in 2006 and chaired the Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee from 2003 to 2007.

Hillary Diane Rodham supported the resolution authorizing the Iraq War in 2002 but opposed the surge of US troops in 2007.

Hillary Diane Rodham responded to the Arab Spring by advocating military intervention in Libya but was harshly criticized by Republicans for the failure to prevent or adequately respond to the 2012 Benghazi attack.

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Hillary Diane Rodham was born on October 26,1947, at Edgewater Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois.

Hillary Diane Rodham was raised in a United Methodist family who first lived in Chicago.

Hillary Diane Rodham's mother, Dorothy Howell, was a homemaker of Dutch, English, French Canadian, Scottish, and Welsh descent.

Hillary Diane Rodham participated in swimming and softball and earned numerous badges as a Brownie and a Girl Scout.

Hillary Diane Rodham has often told the story of being inspired by US efforts during the Space Race and sending a letter to NASA around 1961 asking what she could do to become an astronaut, only to be informed that women were not being accepted into the program.

Hillary Diane Rodham attended Maine East High School, where she participated in the student council and school newspaper and was selected for the National Honor Society.

Hillary Diane Rodham was elected class vice president for her junior year but then lost the election for class president for her senior year against two boys, one of whom told her that "you are really stupid if you think a girl can be elected president".

Hillary Diane Rodham's mother wanted her to have an independent, professional career.

Hillary Diane Rodham was raised in a politically conservative household, and she helped canvass Chicago's South Side at age 13 after the very close 1960 US presidential election.

Hillary Diane Rodham stated that, investigating with a fellow teenage friend shortly after the election, she saw evidence of electoral fraud against Republican candidate Richard Nixon; she later volunteered to campaign for Republican candidate Barry Goldwater in the 1964 election.

In 1965, Hillary Diane Rodham enrolled at Wellesley College, where she majored in political science.

Hillary Diane Rodham was invited by moderate New York Republican representative Charles Goodell to help Governor Nelson Rockefeller's late-entry campaign for the Republican nomination.

Hillary Diane Rodham attended the 1968 Republican National Convention in Miami Beach.

Hillary Diane Rodham wrote her senior thesis, a critique of the tactics of radical community organizer Saul Alinsky, under Professor Schechter.

Hillary Diane Rodham's address followed that of the commencement speaker, Senator Edward Brooke.

Hillary Diane Rodham was featured in an article published in Life magazine, because of the response to a part of her speech that criticized Senator Brooke.

Hillary Diane Rodham appeared on Irv Kupcinet's nationally syndicated television talk show as well as in Illinois and New England newspapers.

Hillary Diane Rodham was asked to speak at the 50th anniversary convention of the League of Women Voters in Washington, DC, the next year.

Hillary Diane Rodham then entered Yale Law School, where she was on the editorial board of the Yale Review of Law and Social Action.

Hillary Diane Rodham took on cases of child abuse at Yale–New Haven Hospital, and volunteered at New Haven Legal Services to provide free legal advice for the poor.

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Hillary Diane Rodham was recruited by political advisor Anne Wexler to work on the 1970 campaign of Connecticut US Senate candidate Joseph Duffey.

Hillary Diane Rodham later crediting Wexler with providing her first job in politics.

Hillary Diane Rodham received a Juris Doctor degree from Yale in 1973, having stayed on an extra year to be with Clinton.

Hillary Diane Rodham first proposed marriage to her following graduation, but she declined, uncertain if she wanted to tie her future to his.

Hillary Diane Rodham began a year of postgraduate study on children and medicine at the Yale Child Study Center.

Under the guidance of Chief Counsel John Doar and senior member Bernard W Nussbaum, Rodham helped research procedures of impeachment and the historical grounds and standards for it.

Wright thought Hillary Diane Rodham had the potential to become a future senator or president.

Hillary Diane Rodham thus followed Clinton to Arkansas, rather than staying in Washington, where career prospects were brighter.

Hillary Diane Rodham was then teaching law and running for a seat in the US House of Representatives in his home state.

Hillary Diane Rodham was considered a rigorous teacher who was tough with her grades.

Hillary Diane Rodham became the first director of a new legal aid clinic at the school, where she secured support from the local bar association and gained federal funding.

Hillary Diane Rodham wanted to keep the couple's professional lives separate, avoid apparent conflicts of interest, and as she told a friend at the time, "it showed that I was still me".

In 1976, Hillary Diane Rodham temporarily relocated to Indianapolis to work as an Indiana state campaign organizer for the presidential campaign of Jimmy Carter.

In February 1977, Hillary Diane Rodham joined the venerable Rose Law Firm, a bastion of Arkansan political and economic influence.

Hillary Diane Rodham specialized in patent infringement and intellectual property law while working pro bono in child advocacy; she rarely performed litigation work in court.

Hillary Diane Rodham maintained her interest in children's law and family policy, publishing the scholarly articles "Children's Policies: Abandonment and Neglect" in 1977 and "Children's Rights: A Legal Perspective" in 1979.

In 1977, Hillary Diane Rodham cofounded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, a state-level alliance with the Children's Defense Fund.

Hillary Diane Rodham held that position from 1978 until the end of 1981.

Hillary Diane Rodham would hold that title for twelve nonconsecutive years.

In 1979, Hillary Diane Rodham became the first woman to be made a full partner in Rose Law Firm.

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On February 27,1980, Hillary Diane Rodham gave birth to the couple's only child, a daughter whom they named Chelsea.

Hillary Diane Rodham was named chair of the Arkansas Education Standards Committee in 1983, where she sought to reform the state's court-sanctioned public education system.

Hillary Diane Rodham was named Arkansas Woman of the Year in 1983 and Arkansas Mother of the Year in 1984.

Hillary Diane Rodham earned less than the other partners, as she billed fewer hours but still made more than $200,000 in her final year there.

Hillary Diane Rodham was very influential in the appointment of state judges.

Hillary Diane Rodham was twice named by The National Law Journal as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America—in 1988 and 1991.

Hillary Diane Rodham was largely unsuccessful in her campaign for more women to be added to the company's management and was silent about the company's famously anti-labor union practices.

Hillary Diane Rodham was the first in this role to have a postgraduate degree and her own professional career up to the time of entering the White House.

Hillary Diane Rodham was the first to have an office in the West Wing of the White House in addition to the usual first lady offices in the East Wing.

Hillary Diane Rodham was part of the innermost circle vetting appointments to the new administration.

Hillary Diane Rodham's choices filled at least eleven top-level positions and dozens more lower-level ones.

Hillary Diane Rodham conducted outreach efforts on behalf of enrolling children in the program once it became law.

Hillary Diane Rodham promoted nationwide immunization against childhood diseases and encouraged older women to get a mammogram for breast cancer screening, with coverage provided by Medicare.

Hillary Diane Rodham successfully sought to increase research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma at the National Institutes of Health.

Hillary Diane Rodham worked to investigate reports of an illness that affected veterans of the Gulf War, which became known as the Gulf War syndrome.

Hillary Diane Rodham hosted the first-ever White House Conference on Teenagers, and the first-ever White House Conference on Philanthropy.

Hillary Diane Rodham did not hold a security clearance or attend National Security Council meetings, but played a role in US diplomacy attaining its objectives.

Hillary Diane Rodham declared, "it is no longer acceptable to discuss women's rights as separate from human rights".

Hillary Diane Rodham helped create Vital Voices, an international initiative sponsored by the US to encourage the participation of women in the political processes of their countries.

Hillary Diane Rodham characterized the Lewinsky charges as the latest in a long, organized, collaborative series of charges by Bill's political enemies rather than any wrongdoing by her husband.

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Hillary Diane Rodham later said she had been misled by her husband's initial claims that no affair had taken place.

In 2014, Hillary Diane Rodham said that she and Bill had left the White House "not only dead broke, but in debt".

In October 2018, Hillary Diane Rodham stated in an interview on CBS News Sunday Morning that Bill was right to not resign from office, and that Bill's affair with Lewinsky did not constitute an abuse of power because Lewinsky "was an adult".

Hillary Diane Rodham was the founding chair of Save America's Treasures, a nationwide effort matching federal funds with private donations to preserve and restore historic items and sites.

Hillary Diane Rodham published a weekly syndicated newspaper column titled "Talking It Over" from 1995 to 2000.

Hillary Diane Rodham was head of the White House Millennium Council and hosted Millennium Evenings, a series of lectures that discussed futures studies, one of which became the first live simultaneous webcast from the White House.

Hillary Diane Rodham oversaw the restoration of the Blue Room to be historically authentic to the period of James Monroe, and the Map Room to how it looked during World War II.

Hillary Diane Rodham became the first wife of the president of the United States to be a candidate for elected office.

Hillary Diane Rodham began her drive to the US Senate by visiting all 62 counties in the state, in a "listening tour" of small-group settings.

Hillary Diane Rodham devoted considerable time in traditionally Republican Upstate New York regions.

Hillary Diane Rodham's plan included tax credits to reward job creation and encourage business investment, especially in the high-tech sector.

Hillary Diane Rodham called for personal tax cuts for college tuition and long-term care.

Hillary Diane Rodham forged alliances with religiously inclined senators by becoming a regular participant in the Senate Prayer Breakfast.

Hillary Diane Rodham sat on five Senate committees: Committee on Budget, Committee on Armed Services, Committee on Environment and Public Works, Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and Special Committee on Aging.

Hillary Diane Rodham was a member of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe.

Hillary Diane Rodham's stance caused frustration among those in the Democratic Party who favored quick withdrawal.

Hillary Diane Rodham used her position on the Armed Services Committee to forge close relationships with a number of high-ranking military officers.

Hillary Diane Rodham easily won the Democratic nomination over opposition from antiwar activist Jonathan Tasini.

Hillary Diane Rodham became the first former first lady to be a member of the United States Cabinet.

Hillary Diane Rodham prevailed over Vice President Joe Biden's opposition but eventually supported Obama's compromise plan to send an additional 30,000 troops and tie the surge to a timetable for eventual withdrawal.

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Hillary Diane Rodham met with him weekly but did not have the close, daily relationship that some of her predecessors had had with their presidents; moreover, certain key areas of policymaking were kept inside the White House or Pentagon.

Hillary Diane Rodham met with Burmese leaders as well as opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and sought to support the 2011 Burmese democratic reforms.

Hillary Diane Rodham said the 21st century would be "America's Pacific century", a declaration that was part of the Obama administration's "pivot to Asia".

Hillary Diane Rodham's doctors had discovered the clot during a follow-up examination for a concussion she had sustained when she fainted and fell nearly three weeks earlier, as a result of severe dehydration from a viral intestinal ailment acquired during a trip to Europe.

Hillary Diane Rodham has been criticized for accepting millions in dollars in donations from foreign governments to the Clinton Foundation during her tenure as Secretary of State.

Hillary Diane Rodham defended her actions in response to the incident, and while still accepting formal responsibility, said she had had no direct role in specific discussions beforehand regarding consulate security.

Hillary Diane Rodham said it was possible Clinton was not "technically sophisticated" enough to understand what the three classified markings meant.

Hillary Diane Rodham added that "[although] we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information".

Hillary Diane Rodham began work on another volume of memoirs and made appearances on the paid speaking circuit.

Hillary Diane Rodham made some unpaid speeches on behalf of the foundation.

Hillary Diane Rodham had a campaign-in-waiting already in place, including a large donor network, experienced operatives and the Ready for Hillary and Priorities USA Action political action committees and other infrastructure.

Hillary Diane Rodham's campaign focused on: raising middle class incomes, establishing universal preschool, making college more affordable and improving the Affordable Care Act.

Hillary Diane Rodham opened up a significant lead in pledged delegates over Sanders.

Hillary Diane Rodham maintained this delegate lead across subsequent contests during the primary season, with a consistent pattern throughout.

Hillary Diane Rodham is the fifth presidential candidate in US history to win the popular vote but lose the election.

Hillary Diane Rodham won the most votes of any candidate who did not take office and the third-most votes of any candidate in history, though she did not have the greatest percentage win of a losing candidate.

Hillary Diane Rodham was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in law at Queen's University Belfast on October 10,2018, after giving a speech on Northern Ireland and the impacts of Brexit at Whitla Hall, Belfast.

Hillary Diane Rodham reiterated her comments in March 2019 and stated she would not run for president in 2020.

Hillary Diane Rodham supported "equal pay for equal work", to address current shortfalls in how much women are paid to do the same jobs men do.

Hillary Diane Rodham favored arming Syria's rebel fighters in 2012 and has called for the removal of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.

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Hillary Diane Rodham supported the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 and the NATO-led military intervention in Libya to oust former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011.

Hillary Diane Rodham promised to co-sponsor legislation that would abolish it, resulting in the direct election of the president.

Hillary Diane Rodham reiterated her position against the Electoral College as she cast her vote as an elector in the electoral college for Joe Biden in 2020.

Hillary Diane Rodham has publicly discussed her Christian faith on several occasions, although seldom while campaigning.

Hillary Diane Rodham has made guest appearances on the show herself, in 2008 and in 2015, to face-off with her doppelgangers.

Hillary Diane Rodham has often been described in the popular media as a polarizing figure, though some argue otherwise.

Hillary Diane Rodham noted that she began wearing them because of "suggestive" photos taken during a trip to Brazil in 1995 that showed her underwear when she was seated that ended up being used in an ad for lingerie company DuLoren.