| Hillary Clinton  AKA Hillary Diane Rodham
Born: 26-Oct-1947
Birthplace: Chicago, IL [1]
Gender: Female
Religion: Methodist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: First Lady, Politician
Party Affiliation: Democratic Nationality: United States
Executive summary: US Senator from New York Hillary Rodham was a Brownie, a Girl Scout, a good student, and class President in her high school. As a young woman she was a Republican, volunteering on Barry Goldwater's 1964 campaign for President. She had a change of heart after hearing a speech from Martin Luther King, and by 1972 she was working on George McGovern's Presidential campaign.
After getting her law degree, she worked briefly for the Children's Defense Fund, then came to Washington DC, where she worked on the legal staff advising the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives, looking into impeaching Richard M. Nixon. She married a man with Presidential ambitions, Bill Clinton, and when he was elected Governor of Arkansas she became the state's First Lady, but continued working as a lawyer.
When he was elected President in 1992, she became the first US First Lady who had a post-graduate degree and a professional career of her own. She was the first Presidential wife with an office in the West Wing of the White House, alongside the offices of the President's senior staff, and she was, by all accounts, much more involved in the intricacies of governing than previous First Ladies. For being a relatively modern, unshackled woman instead of a stay-at-home mom, she became a ferociously hated woman in right wing circles.
First came the shocking revelation that, when working as a lawyer, she had used her maiden name, Rodham. A series of allegations began with rumors aired on Rush Limbaugh's radio program, linking Clinton to the firing of employees of the White House travel office, then uncovering $100,000 in profits made in her brief late-1970s ownership of a commodities trading account, and smaller gains from a questionable real estate investment. In increasing bizarre claims, Clinton was whispered to be a lesbian and/or connected to the Russian mob, and to have an "open marriage" with frequent liaisons. According to elaborate but utterly unsubstantiated conspiracy theories, she was a drug runner, and Vince Foster's suicide was actually a murder, with Clinton herself perhaps pulling the trigger. Millions of dollars were spent investigating the more plausible of these accusations, but wrongdoing on Clinton's part was never shown.
Clinton has said that her proudest accomplishment as First Lady was her involvement in pushing the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, which altered and streamlined the federal regulations regarding foster care and adoption of handicapped children. Her most public failure came after being appointed to head the task force that, in 1993, proposed a complicated mish-mash of mandated employer-paid health care and regulated HMOs as a health care plan, which was soundly rejected by Congress.
In 2000, she became the first First Lady to be elected to public office, when she won Daniel Patrick Moynihan's seat in the Senate, representing New York. In 2006 she won a second Senate term with about 2/3 of the vote, but she is still the name most likely to rouse the rabble on right-wing radio talk shows. The American Conservative Union has published a book, Hillary Rodham Clinton: What Every American Should Know, and indeed, a small bookstore could be stocked with books warning of her "radical agenda" and alleged connections to communists, criminals, and conspiracies.
In reality, there is little in Clinton's political positions that could even be described as overwhelmingly liberal. She is a member of the Democratic Leadership Council, the group that urges Democrats to take less progressive political positions. She has proposed legislation to criminalize flag-burning, and co-authored a bill to protect America's youth from the alleged dangers of violent video games. She supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq, has opposed any timetable for ending the occupation, and has maintained that torture is sometimes appropriate -- though she changed her mind on that, shortly after announcing her candidacy for the Presidency on 20 January 2007.
[1] Edgewater Hospital. Father: Hugh Ellsworth Rodham (owned a fabric store, d. 7-Apr-1993)
Mother: Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham (homemaker, b. 1919, m. 1942)
Brother: Hugh E. Rodham, Jr. (attorney, b. 1950)
Brother: Anthony Rodham (insurance salesman, b. 1954)
Husband: Bill Clinton (dated 1971-75, m. 11-Oct-1975, one daughter)
Daughter: Chelsea Clinton (b. 27-Feb-1980)
High School: Maine Township High School East, Park Ridge, IL (1965)
University: BA Political Science, Wellesley College (1969)
Law School: JD, Yale Law School (1973)
Scholar: Yale Child Study Center (1973-74)
Teacher: University of Arkansas Law School, Fayetteville
US Senator, New York (2001-)
Member of the Board of Wal-Mart (1986-92)
Arkansas Bar Association 1973
Children's Defense Fund
Democratic Leadership Council
Hillary Clinton for President Candidate
Kennedy Center Honorary Chair
National Constitution Center National Honorary Committee
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Honorary Board of Directors
Vital Voices Global Partnership Honorary Chair, Board of Directors
Young Republicans Wellesley College chapter president
Youth for Goldwater Park Ridge, IL
Watergate Scandal
Whitewater Scandal
Yale Law Journal Board of Editors
Grammy 1997, spoken word for It Takes A Village audiobook
National Women's Hall of Fame 8-Oct-2005
Defamation according to lawsuit filed by Gennifer Flowers (1999), case dismissed
New Democrat Movement Senate New Democrat Coalition
Secret Service Codename Evergreen
Funeral: Diana, Princess of Wales (1997)
Funeral: Katharine Graham (2001)
Wedding: Al Reynolds and Star Jones (2004)
Wedding: Donald Trump and Melania Knauss (2005)
Welsh Ancestry
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Shine a Light (7-Feb-2008) Herself
Darfur Now (9-Sep-2007) Herself
The War Room (14-Sep-1993) Herself
Official Website:
http://clinton.senate.gov/
Rotten Library Page:
Hillary Clinton
Appears on the cover of:
Time, 16-Jun-2003, DETAILS: Book Excerpt -- Hillary In Her Own Words -- The former First Lady talks candidly about Bill, her public life, and her private pain
Author of books:
It Takes a Village, And Other Lessons Children Teach Us (1996, non-fiction)
Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids' Letters to the First Pets (1998, children's book)
An Invitation to the White House: At Home with History (2000, non-fiction)
Living History (2003, autobiography)
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