Hillary Clinton

My name is Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton , was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1947 . I am a lawyer and U.S. policy , my husband is former President Bill Clinton his presidency lasted from 1993 to 2001 and am currently Secretary of State in the administration of Barack Obama. My parents are Hugh and Dorothy Rodham , curse primary and secondary education at Wellesley College in Chicago, where both stand by my excellent academic record and by my participation in student representation .

When I finished my secondary education enter at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1969, where I enrolled in law. At that time stand out because one of the magazines went to college , this was my first encounter with my now husband Bill Clinton. Once she graduated as a doctor in In 1974 law, I started working in Cambridge for the Children's Defense Fund. Since then spend much of my work activities to support and improve the quality of life of children. At the same time enter on the board of the company Wal -Mart distribution .

In 1975 I married Bill Clinton. My only daughter, Chelsea Victoria Clinton was born in 1980. Shortly after we moved to Arkansas, where my husband's political career began . There I taught law at the state university. In 1978 Bill Clinton was elected Governor of Arkansas, and was converted into the first lady of the state , I was appointed by the then President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, as a member of the Legal Service Corporation , nonprofit organization created by Congress States to ensure access of all citizens to legal assistance .

My career as a lawyer was so bright that included among the hundred most influential lawyers in the country in the years 1975, 1979, 1988 and 1991. At this stage as first lady of Arkansas combine my work activities with support to organizations related to children : I was president of the Arkansas Education Committee , participate in care work at Arkansas Children's Hospital and co-founded a public service of legal assistance for families and children .

In the campaign for the presidential elections on November 3, 1992 , I made claims against the former cabaret singer Jennifer Flowers, who claimed to have sex with Bill Clinton for twelve years. I said, " I'm not here as the poor little woman who comes to save her husband I'm here because I love him , I respect him for what happened and we've been together ... If that's not enough for people. because they will not vote . " With this statement I win the sympathy of many American women. In fact, one electoral complaints was " Votad Hillary 's husband ."

The victory of my husband and me democrat group became the first lady of the United States. On 20 January 1993, following the party for the inauguration of Bill Clinton as the 42nd President of the United States , we moved to the White House.

I represent from the beginning to the most advanced sector of the U.S. broke with the traditional archetype. About the role of women in public life to ensure that he was born " a new world order in the relationship between the sexes." I am a woman of character , who can not sit still or tolerate intrusions into my private life , I had some confrontations with journalists. Therefore I was criticized by those who advocate a more traditional role for the first lady.

After swearing my office, President Clinton chose me to lead a special commission on the reform of health care, the most innovative sectors of the presidential program during his first year in office. In September of 1994, a year after the special committee had submitted its report , and after several congressional committees propose alternative plans , it was announced that he could not remember any proposals on health, and the report was filed . After this major setback , I decided to fill a role without public significance .

On November 6, 1996 was re-elected Bill Clinton as U.S. president , against Republican Bob Dole. Learned to look at my husband rapt in each speech and offered a submissive image to get closer to what U.S. the term first lady. But then blew the call Lewinski , a sex scandal that threatened the presidency of her husband's second case.

I had to face one of the worst moments of my public and private life : my husband against accusations of perjury and obstruction of justice after hiding her adulterous affair with a White House intern . In a first appearance before Congress, the President of the United States denied any relationship with the young intern , in an attempt to save our marriage and not obscure a positive public image . Finally , and before the Grand Jury , Bill Clinton acknowledged their relationship , beset by numerous tests.

This made ​​my husband became the second president in U.S. history who faced impeachment , which finally emerged victorious . I do not missed the signs of support and solidarity of much of society and even many women, opinion leaders from other countries. Frighten away , I defended my husband, who accompanied at all times during the Senate vote on his dismissal .

In 2000 he was elected senator from the state of New York , a position for which I went to a vote in 2006. I am an ambitious and tireless fighter at the beginning of 2007 I made my intention public to introduce for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States. After intense primary elections within the Democratic Party, decided in June 2008 to withdraw my candidacy for the presidency, after my opponent, Barack Obama, got the majority of votes needed for nomination . After winning the 2008 election , Barack Obama chose to hold the office of secretary of state.

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