Hillary Clinton

During her husband's campaign in 1982, Rodham began to use the name Hillary Clinton.

After her husband became a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination of 1992, Hillary Clinton received national attention for the first time.

Hillary Clinton made remarks about Tammy Wynette and baking cookies during the campaign that were ill-considered by her own admission.

Later saying she had been misled by her husband's initial claims that no affair had taken place, Hillary Clinton stated at the time that the allegations against her husband were the result of a "vast right-wing conspiracy."

Both Clintons' memoirs later stated that the revelation of the affair was a very painful time in their marriage; Hillary Clinton faced both support and criticism for remaining in the marriage.

Hillary Clinton received an "A" on the Drum Major Institute's 2005 Congressional Scorecard on middle-class issues.

Hillary Clinton has been involved in numerous controversies involving allegations of legal, financial, or ethical wrongdoings, notably official enquiries into her business dealings in Arkansas and her involvement in the administration of her husband, as well as controversial public and private statements that attracted media attention.

Hillary Clinton has been given numerous awards and honors related to her public service.

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Caption Pic of Hillary Clinton
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Democratic presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) speaks as she sits with billionaire financier Warren Buffett (not pictured) at a fundraising event in New York City, June 26, 2007. (Mike Segar/Reuters)
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Obama: Hillary Clinton Lacks Experience
By BillT(BillT)
"The only person who would probably be prepared to be our president on Day One would be Bill Clinton - not Hillary Clinton," Obama told Monday night at a fundraiser in Chicago. But Bill Clinton says his wife is the most prepared to lead ...
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Clinton voted in favor of the Iraq Resolution, which authorized United States President George W. In November 1980, Bill Clinton was defeated in his bid for re-election, but returned to office two years later by winning the election of 1982. As First Lady of Arkansas, Hillary Rodham Clinton chaired the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee from 1982 to 1992, where she successfully sought to improve testing standards of new teachers. She joined with about half of the Democratic Senators in support of the filibuster against the nomination of Samuel Alito to the United States Supreme Court, and subsequenty voted against his confirmation along with almost all Democratic members of the Senate. She promoted nationwide immunization against childhood illnesses and encouraged older women to seek a mammogram to detect breast cancer, with coverage provided by Medicare. In January 1979, following the November 1978 election of her husband as Governor of Arkansas, Rodham became First Lady of Arkansas, her title for a total of 12 years (1979-1981, 1983-1992). She was featured in an article published in Life magazine, due to the response to a part of her speech that criticized Senator Edward Brooke, who had spoken before her at the commencement.

The First Lady worked to investigate reports of an illness that affected veterans of the Gulf War, which became known as the Gulf War syndrome. Clinton voted for the USA Patriot Act in October 2001, as did all but one senator.

That summer, she worked her way across Alaska, washing dishes in Mount McKinley National Park and sliming salmon in a dubious fish processing factory in Valdez. . She attended the "Wellesley in Washington"summer program at the urging of Professor Alan Schechter, for whom she would write a senior thesis about the tactics of radical community organizer Saul Alinsky (that, years later while she was First Lady, was suppressed at the request of the White House and became the subject of mystery).