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Hillary Rodham Clinton - Changed the World View Regarding Women
Hillary Rodham Clinton - Changed the World View Regarding Women
Hillary Rodham Clinton - Changed the World View Regarding Women
Hillary Rodham Clinton - Changed the World View Regarding Women
Hillary Rodham Clinton - Changed the World View Regarding Women
Over the course of the marriage, Clinton’s Clinton, the email controversy was the single most
the trading of cattle futures contracts; an initial
$1,000 investment generated nearly $100,000 husband had infamous extramarital affairs covered topic during the 2016 presidential election.
when she stopped trading after ten months. At with Gennifer Flowers and Monica Lewinsky. In It Takes a Village release and tour
this time, the couple began their ill-fated both instances, Hillary chose to stay in the In 1996, Clinton presented a vision for American
investment in the Whitewater Development marriage, which had mixed results in the press. children in the book It Takes a Village: And Other
Corporation. Both of these became subjects of Together with Attorney General Janet Reno, Lessons Children Teach Us. In January 1996, she went
controversy in the 1990s. Clinton helped create the Office on Violence on a ten-city book tour and made numerous television
On February 27, 1980, Rodham gave birth to Against Women at the Department of Justice. In appearances to promote the book, although she was
the couple’s only child, a daughter whom they 1997, she initiated and shepherded frequently hit with questions about her involvement in
named Chelsea. In November 1980. She was the Adoption and Safe Families Act, which she the Whitewater and Travelgate controversies. The book
named Arkansas Woman of the Year in 1983 regarded as her greatest accomplishment as the spent 18 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller
and Arkansas Mother of the Year in 1984. first lady. In 1999, she was instrumental in the List that year, including three weeks at number one. By
Clinton continued to practice law with the Rose passage of the Foster Care Independence Act, 2000, it had sold 450,000 copies in hardcover and
Law Firm while she was the first lady of Arkansas. which doubled federal monies for teenagers aging another 200,000 in paperback.
From 1982 to 1988, Clinton was on the board of out of foster care. As First Lady of the United Clinton received the Grammy Award for Best
directors, sometimes as chair, of the New World States, Clinton was the host for various White Spoken Word Album in 1997 for the book’s audio
Foundation, which funded a variety of New House conferences. These included one on Child recording.
Left interest groups. From 1987 to 1991, she was Care (1997), on Early Childhood Development Other books published by Clinton when she was the
the first chair of the American Bar Association’s and Learning (1997), and on Children and “factually false” statements, but that first lady include Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids’ Letters
Commission on Women in the Profession, created Adolescents (2000). She also hosted the first- there was insufficient evidence that she to the First Pets (1998) and An Invitation to the White
to address gender bias in the legal profession and ever White House Conference on Teenagers knew the statements were false or knew House: At Home with History (2000).
induce the association to adopt measures to (2000), and the first-ever White House that her actions would lead to firings, to Publisher Simon & Schuster paid Clinton a near-
combat it. She was twice named by The Conference on Philanthropy (1999). prosecute her. record advance of $8 million in December 2000 for
National Law Journal as one of the 100 most Clinton traveled to 79 countries during In March 1994, newspaper reports her autobiography, released in 2003, as Living
influential lawyers in America—in 1988 and this time, breaking the record for most- revealed that Clinton had earned History. Clinton’s third memoir, What Happened, an
1991. traveled first lady previously held by Pat spectacular profits from cattle futures account of her loss in the 2016 election, was released on
Clinton was chairman of the board of the Nixon. Clinton visited 112 countries trading in 1978–79. The press made September 12, 2017, by Simon & Schuster, in print, e-
Children’s Defense Fund and on the board of during her tenure as Secretary of State, allegations that Clinton had engaged in a book, and as an audiobook read by the author. A book
the Arkansas Children’s Hospital’s Legal Services making her the most widely traveled conflict of interest and disguised a tour and a series of interviews and personal appearances
(1988–92) In addition to her positions with secretary of state, as well. bribery. Several individuals analyzed her were arranged for the launch. What Happened sold
nonprofit organizations, she also held positions In a September 1995 speech before trading records, but no formal 300,000 copies in its first week, less than her 2003
on the corporate board of directors the Fourth World Conference on Women in investigation was made and she was memoir, Living History, but triple the first-week sales of
of TCBY (1985–92), Wal-Mart Stores (1986– Beijing, Clinton argued forcefully against never charged with any wrongdoing. her previous memoir, 2014’s Hard Choices. Simon &
92) and Lafarge (1990–92). TCBY and Wal-Mart practices that abused women around the world An outgrowth of the “Travelgate” Schuster announced that What Happened had sold
were Arkansas-based companies that were also and in the People’s Republic of China itself. investigation was the June 1996 more e-books in its first-week than any nonfiction
clients of Rose Law. Clinton was the first Delegates from over 180 countries heard her discovery of improper White House e-book since 2010.
female member on Wal-Mart’s board, say: “If there is one message that echoes forth access to hundreds of FBI background Once she decided to run for the open Senate seat in
following pressure on chairman Sam from this conference, let it be that human rights reports on former Republican White New York, the Clintons purchased a home
Walton to name a woman to it. are women’s rights and women’s rights are House employees, an affair that some in Chappaqua, New York, north of New York City. In

When Bill Clinton took office as president in human rights, once and for all.” In doing so, called “Filegate”. Accusations were made September 1999, she became the first wife of the
January 1993, Hillary Rodham Clinton became she resisted both internal administration and that Clinton had requested these files president of the United States to be a candidate
the first lady. Her press secretary reiterated she Chinese pressure to soften her remarks. The and she had recommended hiring an for elected office.
would be using that form of her name. She was the speech became a key moment in the unqualified individual to head the White She was sworn in as U.S. senator on January 3, 2001,
first in this role to have a postgraduate empowerment of women and years later women House Security Office. The 2000 final and as George W. Bush was still 17 days away from being
degree and her own professional career up to the around the world would recite Clinton’s key Independent Counsel report found no inaugurated as president after winning the 2000
time of entering the White House. She was also phrases. substantial or credible evidence that presidential election that meant from January 3–20,
the first to have an office in the West Wing of the Investigations: Whitewater controversy, Clinton had any role or showed any she simultaneously held the titles of First Lady
White House in addition to the usual first lady Travelgate, Filegate, and Hillary Clinton cattle misconduct in the matter. and Senator – a first in U.S. history.
offices in the East Wing. She was part of the futures controversy. Clinton has been a subject Her use of a private email On March 4, 2019, Clinton announced that she would
innermost circle vetting appointments to the new of several investigations by the United States server when she was Secretary of State not run for president in 2020. On April 28, 2020, and
administration. Her choices filled at least eleven Office of the Independent Counsel, committees was the subject of intense scrutiny; endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden for president
top-level positions and dozens more lower-level of the U.S. Congress and the press. while no charges were filed against in the 2020 election.
ones. After Eleanor Roosevelt, Clinton was On January 26, 1996, Clinton became Continued on page 4
regarded as the most openly empowered the first spouse of a U.S. president to
presidential wife in American history. be subpoenaed to testify before a
The pressures of conflicting ideas about the federal grand jury in light of the
role of a first lady were enough to send Hillary Whitewater controversy. After several
Clinton into “imaginary discussions” with the Independent Counsels had investigated, a final
also-politically active Eleanor Roosevelt. From report was issued in 2000 that stated there was
the time she came to Washington, triggered in insufficient evidence that either Clinton had
part by the death of her father in April 1993, she engaged in criminal wrongdoing.
publicly sought to find a synthesis of Methodist Scrutiny of the May 1993 firings of the
teachings, liberal religious political philosophy White House Travel Office employees, an
and Tikkun editor Michael Lerner’s “politics of action that became known as “Travelgate”,
meaning” to overcome what she saw as America’s began with charges that the White House had
“sleeping sickness of the soul”; that would lead to used audited financial irregularities in the Travel
a willingness “to remold society by redefining Office operation as an excuse to replace the
what it means to be a human being in the staff with friends from Arkansas. The 2000 final
twentieth century, moving into a new Independent Counsel report concluded she was
millennium”. involved in the firings and that she had made

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