Happy Birthday Hillary Clinton
Today is the 67th birthday of former First Lady and former Secretary of State (and future President perhaps) Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton. She was born October 26, 1947 in Chicago. Besides the previous mentioned accomplishments, she is also a former U.S. Senator from New York and a leading candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Hillary Rodham earned her law degree, a Juris Doctorate (or J.D.) from Yale Law School in 1973. After a brief stint as a Congressional legal counsel, she moved to Arkansas and married Bill Clinton in 1975. They have one daughter, Chelsea Victoria Clinton, born February 27, 1980, and last month she became a grandmother for the first time with the birth of Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky, on September 26, 2014.
Hillary Clinton has spent her life bursting glass ceilings. In 1978, she became the first female chair of the Legal Services Corporation, and in 1979 the first female partner at Rose Law Firm. The National Law Journal named her as one of the hundred most influential lawyers in America. As First Lady of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992, she led a task force that reformed Arkansas's education system.
In 1994, as First Lady of the United States, her major initiative was the Clinton health care plan. It failed to gain approval from the U.S. Congress, but drew national attention to the lack of health care coverage that many Americans had. In 1997 and 1999, she espoused other causes for the betterment of the lives of children, including working towards the creation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, passage of the Adoption and Safe Families Act, and the Foster Care Independence Act. Thus far she is the only First Lady to have been subpoenaed, when she testified before a federal grand jury in 1996 regarding the Whitewater controversy, but she was never charged with any wrongdoing in this or several other investigations during the Clinton presidency.
Clinton was elected the first female Senator from New York in 2000. She is the only First Lady thus far to have run for public office. Following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, she supported military action in Afghanistan and the Iraq War Resolution, but later objected to the Bush administration's conduct of the war in Iraq. She was reelected to the Senate in 2006.
Hillary Clinton sought the 2008 Democratic nomination for President. She won more primaries and delegates than any other female candidate in American history, but narrowly lost the nomination to U.S. Senator Barack Obama, who went on to win the national election. Obama nominated Clinton to be Secretary of State, and she was confirmed by the Senate in January 2009.
During her tenure at the State Department she led the U.S. response to the Arab Spring, including advocating for the U.S. military intervention in Libya. As Secretary of State, she took responsibility for security lapses related to the 2012 Benghazi attack, which resulted in the deaths of American consulate personnel. She visited more countries than any other Secretary of State. The issues she championed included encouraging the empowerment of women.
Although she has not formally announced her intention to seek the Presidency in 2016, most polls have indicated her the overwhelming favorite among Democrats for the party's 2016 presidential nomination. If I was to bet on it, I'd put my money on seeing a Clinton for President in 2016 campaign.
Hillary Rodham earned her law degree, a Juris Doctorate (or J.D.) from Yale Law School in 1973. After a brief stint as a Congressional legal counsel, she moved to Arkansas and married Bill Clinton in 1975. They have one daughter, Chelsea Victoria Clinton, born February 27, 1980, and last month she became a grandmother for the first time with the birth of Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky, on September 26, 2014.
Hillary Clinton has spent her life bursting glass ceilings. In 1978, she became the first female chair of the Legal Services Corporation, and in 1979 the first female partner at Rose Law Firm. The National Law Journal named her as one of the hundred most influential lawyers in America. As First Lady of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992, she led a task force that reformed Arkansas's education system.
In 1994, as First Lady of the United States, her major initiative was the Clinton health care plan. It failed to gain approval from the U.S. Congress, but drew national attention to the lack of health care coverage that many Americans had. In 1997 and 1999, she espoused other causes for the betterment of the lives of children, including working towards the creation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, passage of the Adoption and Safe Families Act, and the Foster Care Independence Act. Thus far she is the only First Lady to have been subpoenaed, when she testified before a federal grand jury in 1996 regarding the Whitewater controversy, but she was never charged with any wrongdoing in this or several other investigations during the Clinton presidency.
Clinton was elected the first female Senator from New York in 2000. She is the only First Lady thus far to have run for public office. Following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, she supported military action in Afghanistan and the Iraq War Resolution, but later objected to the Bush administration's conduct of the war in Iraq. She was reelected to the Senate in 2006.
Hillary Clinton sought the 2008 Democratic nomination for President. She won more primaries and delegates than any other female candidate in American history, but narrowly lost the nomination to U.S. Senator Barack Obama, who went on to win the national election. Obama nominated Clinton to be Secretary of State, and she was confirmed by the Senate in January 2009.
During her tenure at the State Department she led the U.S. response to the Arab Spring, including advocating for the U.S. military intervention in Libya. As Secretary of State, she took responsibility for security lapses related to the 2012 Benghazi attack, which resulted in the deaths of American consulate personnel. She visited more countries than any other Secretary of State. The issues she championed included encouraging the empowerment of women.
Although she has not formally announced her intention to seek the Presidency in 2016, most polls have indicated her the overwhelming favorite among Democrats for the party's 2016 presidential nomination. If I was to bet on it, I'd put my money on seeing a Clinton for President in 2016 campaign.