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To: longnshort who wrote (498058)	7/24/2009 5:06:37 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578294

Much more than you're aware of.. en.wikipedia.org "When she was First Lady of the United States, her major initiative, the Clinton health care plan, failed to gain approval from the U.S. Congress in 1994. In 1997 and 1999, Clinton played a role in advocating for the establishment of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, the Adoption and Safe Families Act, and the Foster Care Independence Act. Her time as First Lady drew a polarized response from the American public. She became the only First Lady to be subpoenaed, testifying before a federal grand jury as a consequence of the Whitewater controversy in 1996. She was never charged with any wrongdoing in this or any of the several other investigations during her husband's administration. The state of her marriage to Bill Clinton was the subject of considerable public discussion following the Lewinsky scandal in 1998. After moving to New York, Clinton was elected as senator for New York State in 2000. That election marked the first time an American First Lady had run for public office; Clinton was also the first female senator to represent New York. In the Senate, she initially supported the George W. Bush administration on some foreign policy issues, which included voting for the Iraq War Resolution. She subsequently opposed the administration on its conduct of the war in Iraq, and opposed it on most domestic issues. She was re-elected by a wide margin in 2006. In the 2008 presidential nomination race, Clinton won more primaries and delegates than any other female candidate in American history, but she narrowly lost to Senator Barack Obama. As Obama's Secretary of State, Clinton is the first former First Lady to serve in a president's cabinet."... "Later Arkansas years Governor Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton attend the 1987 Dinner Honoring the Nation's Governors with President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan. Bill Clinton returned to the governor's office two years later by winning the election of 1982. During her husband's campaign, Rodham began to use the name Hillary Clinton, or sometimes "Mrs. Bill Clinton", to assuage the concerns of Arkansas voters;[88] she also took a leave of absence from Rose Law in order to campaign for him full-time.[89] As First Lady of Arkansas, Hillary Clinton was named chair of the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee in 1983, where she sought to reform the state's court-sanctioned public education system.[90][91] In one of the Clinton governorship's most important initiatives, she fought a prolonged but ultimately successful battle against the Arkansas Education Association, to establish mandatory teacher testing as well as state standards for curriculum and classroom size.[90][82] In 1985, she also introduced Arkansas's Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youth, a program that helps parents work with their children in preschool preparedness and literacy.[92] She was named Arkansas Woman of the Year in 1983 and Arkansas Mother of the Year in 1984.[93][94] Clinton continued to practice law with the Rose Law Firm while she was First Lady of Arkansas. She earned less than the other partners, as she billed fewer hours,[95] but still made more than $200,000 in her final year there.[96] She seldom did trial work,[96] but the firm considered her a "rainmaker" because she brought in clients, partly thanks to the prestige she lent the firm and to her corporate board connections.[96] She was also very influential in the appointment of state judges.[96] Bill Clinton's Republican opponent in his 1986 gubernatorial re-election campaign accused the Clintons of conflict of interest, because Rose Law did state business; the Clintons deflected the charge by saying that state fees were walled off by the firm before her profits were calculated.[97] From 1982 to 1988, Clinton was on board of directors, sometimes as chair, of the New World Foundation,[98] which funded a variety of New Left interest groups.[99] From 1987 to 1991, she chaired the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession,[100] which addressed gender bias in the law profession and induced the association to adopt measures to combat it.[100] She was twice named by the National Law Journal as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America: in 1988 and in 1991.[101] When Bill Clinton thought about not running again for governor in 1990, Hillary considered running herself, but private polls were unfavorable and in the end he ran and was re-elected for the final time.[102] Clinton served on the boards of the Arkansas Children's Hospital Legal Services (1988–1992)[103] and the Children's Defense Fund (as chair, 1986–1992).[104][2] In addition to her positions with non-profit organizations, she also held positions on the corporate board of directors of TCBY (1985–1992),[105] Wal-Mart Stores (1986–1992)[106] and Lafarge (1990–1992).[107] TCBY and Wal-Mart were Arkansas-based companies that were also clients of Rose Law.[96][108] Clinton was the first female member on Wal-Mart's board, added following pressure on chairman Sam Walton to name a woman to the board.[108] Once there, she pushed successfully for Wal-Mart to adopt more environmentally friendly practices, was largely unsuccessful in a campaign for more women to be added to the company's management, and was silent about the company's famously anti-labor union practices.[108][109][106]"