WHERE DOES
HILLARY CLINTON COME FROM?
She is truly a US citizen born of
Hillary Diane Rodham the father and Dorothy Hugh Rodham the mother. It was way
back soon after the second war in 1947 on October 26 that the family received
their first born. She is born with two brothers one called Hugh and the other
Tony.
This humble family was brought up
in the suburbs of Park Ridge in Illinois. This family was brought up happily
and disciplined, they loved attending church and it had become a family
cultural.
Hillary Clinton as a child loved
sports in general and her church .Though she was still a child, she had
elements of leadership and administration. She was a member of National Honor
society and a student leader. Her parents were delighted and proud of her and
always encouraged her to study hard and pursue any career of her interest.
In all her elementary school and
at college in Wellesley Hillary Clinton proved brilliance an excellence in academic
which mixed with school governance. She was at one time quoted at speech on her
graduation saying ‘’the challenge now is to practice politics as the art of
making what appears to be impossible, possible.
In 1969 it was a revolutionary
year for Hillary as she directly practiced her career in law. She began with
Yale Law School where, she was working on the Board of Editors of Yale Law
Review and Social Action and at the same time interning at the
children’s advocate
Miriam Wright Edelman. It is believed that it was in this year that Hillary met
with Clinton. There meeting many, interpret it as a head to head collision of
two focused and vision-oriented people.
To
President Bill Clinton it was
as if, it was a joke yet things had begun on a serious note. The president often
recalls how they met in a library when she strode up to him and said if you’re
going to keep on staring at me. I might as well introduce myself. From that
point an intimacy developed between these two people and was inseparable. They
became bounded together as they were partners in moot court, political
campaigns and above all had deep feelings for each other in relationship.
She carried on advised the
children’s Defense Fund Cambridge, this was after her graduation. She pursed a
position in the impeachment inquiry staff where she was advising the judiciary.
After that she was seen on her way to Arkansas, where bill Clinton begun his
political career.
In 1975 they decided to get
married and in this same year Hillary Clinton joined the faculty of the University
of Arkansas Law School. She also worked in the Rose Law Firm in 1976.After two
years in 1978 she was granted a position by the president Jimmy Carter to be on
the board of legal services corporation and around the same year Bill Clinton
was elected governor of Arkansas. After two years their daughter Chelsea was
born.
She served as Arkansas first lady
for 12 years having challenges for the family, her Law career and the Public services.
She chaired the Arkansas Education Standards Committee, co-founded the Arkansas
Advocates for children and families. At the same time served children Defense
Fund.
In 1992 Presidential campaigns,
Hillary supported her husband and accompanied him wherever he went. She
observed ‘’our lives are a mixture of different roles, most of us are doing the
best we can to find whatever the right balance is… For me that balance is
family, work and services.
After President Clinton won in
National elections, being the first lady Hillary continued to balance public
service with herprivate life. In 1993 President Bill Clinton appointed her to
chair the Task Force on National Health Care Reform. She continued to be a
leading advocate for expanding health insurance coverage, and also ensuring children’s
proper immunization.
She at the same time begun a
column entitled ‘’ Talking it over’’ it mainly focused her experience as the
first lady and her opinions and observations on woman children and family.
She won a Grammy Award for her
1996 book entitled it takes villages and other lessons children. As First lady
her involvement in public activities had two sides, one by those who were
supporting and those who were not supporting her.
Even though there were many
critics, she had already challenged and won admirers for her consistent and
persistent support for woman around the world and her commitment to children
issues. She was elected on November seventh 2000 as the United States senator
from New York. And break record as the
first lady ever elected state wide in New York.