227 Facts About Hillary Rodham Clinton

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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.

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In 1977, Hillary Rodham Clinton co-founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton 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.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton was the first lady of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and again from 1983 to 1992.

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In 1997 and 1999, Hillary Rodham Clinton played a leading role in advocating the creation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, the Adoption and Safe Families Act, and the Foster Care Independence Act.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton advocated for gender equality at the 1995 UN conference on women.

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In 2000, Hillary Rodham Clinton was elected as the first female senator from New York and became the first First lady to simultaneously hold elected office, and then the first former First lady to serve in the Senate.

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

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

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In 2008, Hillary Rodham Clinton ran for president but was defeated by eventual winner Barack Obama in the Democratic primaries.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton was US secretary of state in the first term of the Obama administration from 2009 to 2013.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton 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 Rodham Clinton helped to organize a diplomatic isolation and a regime of international sanctions against Iran in an effort to force it to curtail its nuclear program; this effort eventually led to the multinational JCPOA nuclear agreement in 2015.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton made a second presidential run in 2016, winning the Democratic nomination, and ran in the general election with Virginia senator Tim Kaine as her running mate.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton lost the presidential election to Republican opponent Donald Trump in the Electoral College, despite winning the popular vote.

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

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

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

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

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Hillary Rodham Clinton 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.

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

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Hillary Rodham Clinton 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".

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

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Hillary Rodham Clinton 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.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton 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.

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

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In 2003, Hillary Rodham Clinton would write that her views concerning the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War were changing in her early college years.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Hillary Rodham Clinton canceled his original summer plans and moved to live with her in California; the couple continued living together in New Haven when they returned to law school.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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Hillary Rodham Clinton 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.

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In 1974, Bill Hillary Rodham Clinton lost an Arkansas congressional race, facing incumbent Republican John Paul Hammerschmidt.

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Rodham and Bill Clinton bought a house in Fayetteville in the summer of 1975 and she agreed to marry him.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton 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".

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

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In November 1976, Bill Hillary Rodham Clinton was elected Arkansas attorney general, and the couple moved to the state capital of Little Rock.

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

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

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Hillary Rodham Clinton 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.

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

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

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

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Hillary Rodham Clinton appointed his wife to be the chair of the Rural Health Advisory Committee the same year, where she secured federal funds to expand medical facilities in Arkansas's poorest areas without affecting doctors' fees.

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

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

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Two years after leaving office, Bill Hillary Rodham Clinton returned to his job as governor of Arkansas after winning the election of 1982.

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

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

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Hillary Rodham Clinton continued to practice law with the Rose Law Firm while she was the first lady of Arkansas.

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

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

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From 1982 to 1988, Hillary Rodham Clinton was on the board of directors, sometimes as chair, of the New World Foundation, which funded a variety of New Left interest groups.

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

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Hillary Rodham Clinton was chairman of the board of the Children's Defense Fund and on the board of the Arkansas Children's Hospital's Legal Services In addition to her positions with nonprofit organizations, she held positions on the corporate board of directors of TCBY, Wal-Mart Stores and Lafarge.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton was the first female member on Wal-Mart's board, added following pressure on chairman Sam Walton to name a woman to it.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton 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.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton received sustained national attention for the first time when her husband became a candidate for the 1992 Democratic presidential nomination.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton 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.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton 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.

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

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

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Hillary Rodham Clinton later acknowledged in her memoir that her political inexperience partly contributed to the defeat but cited many other factors.

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

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

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

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

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Together with Attorney General Janet Reno, Hillary Rodham Clinton helped create the Office on Violence Against Women at the Department of Justice.

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

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

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Hillary Rodham Clinton was troubled by the plight of women she encountered, but found a warm response from the people of the countries she visited, and gained a better relationship with the American press corps.

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

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

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In 1997, Hillary Rodham Clinton returned to Northern Ireland to deliver the inaugural Joyce McCartan lecture at the University of Ulster in honour of the community campaigner she had met during her visit in Belfast in 1995.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton was a subject of several investigations by the United States Office of the Independent Counsel, committees of the US Congress, and the press.

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Independent counsels Robert Fiske and Kenneth Starr subpoenaed Hillary Rodham Clinton's legal billing records; she said she did not know where they were.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton's staff attributed the problem to continual changes in White House storage areas since the move from the Arkansas Governor's Mansion.

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On January 26,1996, Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first spouse of a US president to be subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury.

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The 1996 discovery of a two-year-old White House memo led to the investigation being focused on whether Hillary Rodham Clinton had orchestrated the firings and whether the statements she made to investigators about her role in the firings were true.

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The press made allegations that Hillary Rodham Clinton had engaged in a conflict of interest and disguised a bribery.

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Accusations were made that Hillary Rodham Clinton had requested these files and she had recommended hiring an unqualified individual to head the White House Security Office.

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The 2000 final Independent Counsel report found no substantial or credible evidence that Hillary Rodham Clinton had any role or showed any misconduct in the matter.

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In 1996, Hillary Rodham Clinton presented a vision for American children in the book It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton received the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album in 1997 for the book's audio recording.

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

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

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In October 2018, Hillary Rodham Clinton 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".

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Hillary Rodham Clinton 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.

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

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Hillary Rodham Clinton 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.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton created the first White House Sculpture Garden, located in the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, which displayed large contemporary American works of art loaned by museums.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton 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.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton hosted many large-scale events at the White House, including a state dinner for visiting Chinese dignitaries, a New Year's Eve celebration at the turn of the 21st century, and a state dinner honoring the bicentennial of the White House in November 2000.

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When New York's long-serving US senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan announced his retirement in November 1998, several prominent Democratic figures, including Representative Charles Rangel of New York, urged Hillary Rodham Clinton to run for his open seat in the Senate election of 2000.

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

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Hillary Rodham Clinton then faced Rick Lazio, a Republican member of the US House of Representatives who represented New York's 2nd congressional district.

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

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

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

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

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Hillary Rodham Clinton maintained a low public profile and built relationships with senators from both parties when she started her term.

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

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Hillary Rodham Clinton 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.

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

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Hillary Rodham Clinton strongly supported the 2001 US military action in Afghanistan, saying it was a chance to combat terrorism while improving the lives of Afghan women who suffered under the Taliban government.

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In late 2005, Hillary Rodham Clinton said that while immediate withdrawal from Iraq would be a mistake, Bush's pledge to stay "until the job is done" was misguided, as it gave Iraqis "an open-ended invitation not to take care of themselves".

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

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Hillary Rodham Clinton supported retaining and improving health benefits for reservists and lobbied against the closure of several military bases, especially those in New York.

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

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Hillary Rodham Clinton voted against President Bush's two major tax cut packages, the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 and the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton's audio recording of the book earned her a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton voted against the 2005 confirmation of John Roberts as chief justice of the United States and the 2006 confirmation of Samuel Alito to the US Supreme Court, filibustering the latter.

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In 2004 and 2006, Hillary Rodham Clinton voted against the Federal Marriage Amendment that sought to prohibit same-sex marriage.

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

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Hillary Rodham Clinton opposed the Iraq War troop surge of 2007, for both military and domestic political reasons.

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In March 2007, in response to the dismissal of US attorneys controversy, Hillary Rodham Clinton called on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to resign.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton had been preparing for a potential candidacy for US president since at least early 2003.

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Bill Hillary Rodham Clinton had made more statements attracting criticism for their perceived racial implications late in the South Carolina campaign, and his role was seen as damaging enough to her that a wave of supporters within and outside of the campaign said the former president "needs to stop".

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The South Carolina campaign had done lasting damage to Hillary Rodham Clinton, eroding her support among the Democratic establishment and leading to the prized endorsement of Obama by Ted Kennedy.

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On Super Tuesday, Hillary Rodham Clinton won the largest states, such as California, New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts, while Obama won more states; they almost evenly split the total popular vote.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign had counted on winning the nomination by Super Tuesday and was unprepared financially and logistically for a prolonged effort; lagging in Internet fundraising as Hillary Rodham Clinton began loaning money to her campaign.

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Obama did well in primaries where African Americans or younger, college-educated, or more affluent voters were heavily represented; Hillary Rodham Clinton did well in primaries where Hispanics or older, non-college-educated, or working-class white voters predominated.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton was the first woman to run in the primary or caucus of every state and she eclipsed, by a very wide margin, Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm's 1972 marks for most votes garnered and delegates won by a woman.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton gave a passionate speech supporting Obama 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 on November 4.

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In mid-November 2008, President-elect Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton discussed the possibility of her serving as secretary of state in his administration.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton said she did not want to leave the Senate, but that the new position represented a "difficult and exciting adventure".

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Hillary Rodham Clinton took the oath of office of secretary of state, resigning from the Senate later that day.

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

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Hillary Rodham Clinton announced the most ambitious of her departmental reforms, the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, which establishes specific objectives for the State Department's diplomatic missions abroad; it was modeled after a similar process in the Defense Department that she was familiar with from her time on the Senate Armed Services Committee.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton 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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In March 2009, Hillary Rodham Clinton presented Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov with a "reset button" symbolizing US attempts to rebuild ties with that country under its new president, Dmitry Medvedev.

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In October 2009, on a trip to Switzerland, Hillary Rodham Clinton's intervention overcame last-minute snags and saved the signing of an historic Turkish–Armenian accord that established diplomatic relations and opened the border between the two long-hostile nations.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton and Obama forged a good working relationship without power struggles; she was a team player within the administration and a defender of it to the outside and was careful that neither she nor her husband would upstage the president.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton formed an alliance with Secretary of Defense Gates as they shared similar strategic outlooks.

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Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton both approached foreign policy as a largely non-ideological, pragmatic exercise.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton 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.

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In January 2011, Hillary Rodham Clinton traveled to Haiti in order to help pave the way for the election of Michel Martelly.

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Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton testified to Congress that the administration did not need congressional authorization for its military intervention in Libya, despite objections from some members of both parties that the administration was violating the War Powers Resolution.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton later used US allies and what she called "convening power" to promote unity among the Libyan rebels as they eventually overthrew the Gaddafi regime.

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

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

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In December 2012, Hillary Rodham Clinton was hospitalized for a few days for treatment of a blood clot in her right transverse venous sinus.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton'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.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton greatly expanded the State Department's use of social media, including Facebook and Twitter, to get its message out and to help empower citizens of foreign countries vis-a-vis their governments.

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

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Hillary Rodham Clinton said she accepted the conclusions of the report and that changes were underway to implement its suggested recommendations.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton gave testimony to two congressional foreign affairs committees on January 23,2013, regarding the Benghazi attack.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton 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.

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On October 22,2015, Hillary Rodham Clinton testified at an all-day and nighttime session before the committee.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton was widely seen as emerging largely unscathed from the hearing, because of what the media perceived as a calm and unfazed demeanor and a lengthy, meandering, repetitive line of questioning from the committee.

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Controversy arose in March 2015, when the State Department's inspector general revealed that Hillary Rodham Clinton had used personal email accounts on a non-government, privately maintained server exclusively—instead of email accounts maintained on federal government servers—when conducting official business during her tenure as secretary of state.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton had said over a period of months that she kept no classified information on the private server that she set up in her house.

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The New York Times reported in February 2016 that nearly 2,100 emails stored on Hillary Rodham Clinton's server were retroactively marked classified by the State Department.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton maintained she did not send or receive any emails from her personal server that were confidential at the time they were sent.

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

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The probe found Hillary Rodham Clinton used her personal email extensively while outside the United States, both sending and receiving work-related emails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton 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".

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When Hillary Rodham Clinton left the State Department, she returned to private life for the first time in thirty years.

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In 2014, Hillary Rodham Clinton published a second memoir, Hard Choices, which focused on her time as secretary of state.

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However, even though the Hillary Rodham Clinton Foundation had stopped taking donations from foreign governments, they continued to take large donations from foreign citizens who were sometimes linked to their governments.

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

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

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Hillary Rodham Clinton resigned from the board of the foundation in April 2015, when she began her presidential campaign.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton 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.

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

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

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

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Hillary Rodham Clinton did better among older, black and Hispanic voter populations, and in states that held primaries or where eligibility was restricted to registered Democrats.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton was formally nominated at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 26,2016, becoming the first woman to be nominated for president by a major US political party.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton held a significant lead in national polls over Trump throughout most of 2016.

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FBI Director James Comey concluded Hillary Rodham Clinton had been "extremely careless" in her handling of classified government material.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton was defeated by Donald Trump in the November 8,2016, presidential election.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton then phoned Trump to concede and to congratulate him on his victory, whereupon Trump gave his victory speech.

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

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Hillary Rodham Clinton 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.

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On December 19,2016, when electors formally voted, Hillary Rodham Clinton lost five of her initial 232 votes due to faithless electors, with three of her Washington votes being cast instead for Colin Powell, one being cast for Faith Spotted Eagle, and one in Hawaii being cast for Bernie Sanders.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton 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.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered a St Patrick's Day speech in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on March 17,2017.

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

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In May 2017, Hillary Rodham Clinton announced the formation of Onward Together, a new political action committee that she wrote is "dedicated to advancing the progressive vision that earned nearly 66 million votes in the last election".

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On October 28,2020, Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that she was on the 2020 Democratic slate of electors for the state of New York.

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On May 2,2017, Hillary Rodham Clinton said Trump's use of Twitter "doesn't work" when pursuing important negotiations.

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In March 2021, Hillary Rodham Clinton voiced her support for the United States Senate to abolish the Senate filibuster if it proves necessary to do so in order to pass voting rights legislation.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton had worked on it with Frazee during her 2016 presidential election campaign.

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In February 2021, Hillary Rodham Clinton announced that she was co-writing her first fiction book with Louise Penny.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton has written occasional op-eds in the years since her 2016 election defeat.

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On September 29,2020, Hillary Rodham Clinton launched an interview podcast in collaboration with iHeartRadio titled You and Me Both.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton is slated to be an executive producer of a drama series about the fight for women's suffrage in the United States titled The Woman's Hour.

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On January 2,2020, it was announced that Hillary Rodham Clinton would take up the position of Chancellor at Queen's University Belfast.

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In March 2016, Hillary Rodham Clinton laid out a detailed economic plan, which The New York Times called "optimistic" and "wide-ranging".

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Hillary Rodham Clinton currently opposes the Trans-Pacific Partnership, though previously described it as "the gold standard" of trade deals.

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On December 7,2015, Hillary Rodham Clinton presented her detailed plans for regulating Wall Street financial activities in the New York Times.

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

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Hillary Rodham Clinton has explicitly focused on family issues and supports universal preschool.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton supported the Affordable Care Act and would have added a "public option" that competed with private insurers and enabled people "50 or 55 and up" to buy into Medicare.

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On foreign affairs, Hillary Rodham Clinton voted in favor of the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq in October 2002, a vote she later "regretted".

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Hillary Rodham Clinton 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 Rodham Clinton 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.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton is in favor of maintaining American influence in the Middle East.

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In 2000, Hillary Rodham Clinton advocated for the elimination of the electoral college.

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

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

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Hillary Rodham Clinton has been a lifelong Methodist, and has been part of United Methodist Church congregations throughout her life.

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

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Hillary Rodham Clinton has been featured in the media and popular culture in a wide spectrum of perspectives.

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

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

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Once she became secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton's image seemed to improve dramatically among the American public and become one of a respected world figure.

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In September 2022, Hillary Rodham Clinton discussed the evolution of her trademark pantsuits.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton 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.

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