query: Where did Hillary Clinton graduate college?

title: Hillary Clinton

text: Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is an American politician, diplomat, lawyer, writer, and public speaker. She served as the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, U.S. Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, 67th United States Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013, and as the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election. Born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, Clinton graduated from Wellesley College in 1969 and earned a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1973.

title: Cultural and political image of Hillary Clinton

text: during Clinton's life, including names preferred by Clinton, names used for her by political opponents, and names used for her by others. Following her birth at Edgewater Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, Clinton was initially named "Hillary Diane Rodham", and was generally referred to as "Hillary Rodham". In some formal settings, she used "Hillary D. Rodham", which appeared on her senior thesis, in the transcript of her Wellesley graduation speech, in reports of the United States House of Representatives investigation into the Watergate scandal, and as chair of the Legal Services Corporation. In 1995, Hillary Clinton said her mother had named

title: Hillary Rodham senior thesis

text: Hillary Rodham senior thesis In 1969, Hillary Rodham wrote a 92-page senior thesis for Wellesley College about community organizer Saul Alinsky entitled "There Is Only the Fight . . . : An Analysis of the Alinsky Model." The thesis is now available. While the work by Rodham as a college student was the subject of much speculation in articles and biographies of Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 1990s, access to the thesis was limited by the college, at the request of the Clinton White House, during her time as first lady. Rodham researched the thesis by interviewing Alinsky and others,

title: Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign

text: there is little evidence to support the criticism. A common critique of the Clinton campaign is that it did not campaign in Wisconsin (which Trump narrowly won), yet a study by political scientist Christopher J. Devine finds that "unclear" from the evidence "whether Clinton also would have gained votes, or even won, in Wisconsin had she campaigned in that state." Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign The 2016 presidential campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton was announced in a YouTube video, on April 12, 2015. Hillary Clinton was the 67th United States Secretary of State and served during the first term of

title: Hillary Clinton

text: Next President of the United States Unless ..." Books praising Clinton did not sell nearly as well (other than the memoirs written by her and her husband). When she ran for Senate in 2000, a number of fundraising groups such as Save Our Senate and the Emergency Committee to Stop Hillary Rodham Clinton sprang up to oppose her. Van Natta found that Republican and conservative groups viewed her as a reliable "bogeyman" to mention in fundraising letters, on a par with Ted Kennedy and the equivalent of Democratic and liberal appeals mentioning Newt Gingrich. Clinton has also been featured in

text: Rodham Clinton" in work she did as First Lady of the state. Once she became First Lady of the United States in 1993, she publicly stated that she wanted to be known as "Hillary Rodham Clinton". (This announcement was parodied by the May 1993 film spoof "Hot Shots! Part Deux", in which all the female characters were given the middle name "Rodham"; see IMDB entry). As of 1993, she had not legally changed her name from Hillary Rodham. She authored five books and numerous articles as "Hillary Rodham Clinton", interspersed with a smaller number of articles authored as "Hillary Clinton".

title: Hillary Clinton 2008 presidential primary campaign

text: a rich source for opposition research against Clinton. This issue intensified with the October 30, 2007, Democratic debate at Drexel University, where Hillary Clinton came under fire about it from MSNBC moderator Tim Russert and from Democratic opponents. Russert displayed a document signed by President Clinton that specifically requested that certain records and communications involving her not be made public until 2012. When Russert asked Hillary Clinton whether she would lift the presidential order, Hillary Clinton responded by saying, "That's not my decision to make." A concurrent "Newsweek" investigation stated that Bill Clinton had requested the archivists hold back a

title: Hillary Clinton

text: investment in the Whitewater Development Corporation real estate venture with Jim and Susan McDougal. Both of these became subjects of controversy in the 1990s. On February 27, 1980, Rodham gave birth to her only child, daughter Chelsea. In November 1980, Bill Clinton was defeated in his bid for re-election. Two years after leaving office, Bill Clinton returned to his job as Governor of Arkansas after he won the election of 1982. During her husband's campaign, Hillary began to use the name "Hillary Clinton", or sometimes "Mrs. Bill Clinton", to assuage the concerns of Arkansas voters; she also took a leave

title: Hillary Clinton

text: staff and she made several top-level personnel changes. Obama won the next eleven February contests across the country, often by large margins and took a significant pledged delegate lead over Clinton. On March 4, Clinton broke the string of losses by winning in Ohio among other places, where her criticism of NAFTA, a major legacy of her husband's presidency, helped in a state where the trade agreement was unpopular. Throughout the campaign, Obama dominated caucuses, for which the Clinton campaign largely ignored preparation. Obama did well in primaries where African Americans or younger, college-educated, or more affluent voters were heavily

title: Hillary Clinton 2008 presidential campaign

text: to appear next week at the same rally in New York City – perhaps the closest the two history-making women will be to each other before Election Day." However, Clinton pulled out of her scheduled appearance at the rally protesting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad when she found out Palin would also be there. "Clinton decided not to attend because she did not want to take part in a "partisan political event"," her aide said. Soon after, organizers of the rally in New York withdrew their invitation to Palin. Hillary Clinton 2008 presidential campaign The 2008 presidential campaign of Hillary Rodham

title: Hillary Clinton

text: question the day before the election. The nature of the contest fractured in the next few days. Several remarks by Bill Clinton and other surrogates, and a remark by Hillary Clinton concerning Martin Luther King Jr. and Lyndon B. Johnson, were perceived by many as, accidentally or intentionally, limiting Obama as a racially oriented candidate or otherwise denying the post-racial significance and accomplishments of his campaign. Despite attempts by both Hillary and Obama to downplay the issue, Democratic voting became more polarized as a result, with Clinton losing much of her support among African Americans. She lost by a two-to-one

title: Hillary Clinton

text: though she did not have the greatest percentage win of a losing candidate (Andrew Jackson won the popular vote by 10.4% but lost to John Quincy Adams). On December 19, 2016, when electors formally voted, Clinton lost five of her initial 232 votes due to faithless electors, with three of her Washington votes instead being cast for Colin Powell, one being cast for Faith Spotted Eagle, and one in Hawaii being cast for Bernie Sanders. In their respective capacities as a former president and a former First Lady, Bill and Hillary Clinton attended the inauguration of Donald Trump with their

title: Saturday Night Live parodies of Hillary Clinton

text: "by the pussy", something he did say in real life; the show portrayed Hillary Clinton as being happy (but trying to hide it) because of hearing this news. On October 15, 2016, in episode 3 of season 42, Kate McKinnon played Hillary Clinton and Alec Baldwin played Donald Trump as they answered questions from voters who were undecided, in the second presidential debate. The undecided voters were played by Leslie Jones, Beck Bennett, Michael Che, Bobby Moynihan, and Kyle Mooney. On October 22, 2016, in episode 4 of season 42, Kate McKinnon played Hillary Clinton and Alec Baldwin played Donald

text: on Obama, by making reference to a "Saturday Night Live" skit on the same point from the weekend before. "New York Times" writer Alessandra Stanley said that the debate, hosted by MSNBC and featuring grillings from Tim Russert, "did look a bit like the 'S.N.L.' parody." Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama battled for votes over the airwaves and on the ground in Texas on February 29. Hillary Clinton met her match while appearing on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" to deliver the show's trademark opening line and provide an "editorial response" to a mock presidential debate. On March 2, 2008, Hillary

title: Hillary Clinton

text: represented; Clinton did well in primaries where Hispanics or older, non-college-educated, or working-class white voters predominated. Behind in delegates, Clinton's best hope of winning the nomination came in persuading uncommitted, party-appointed superdelegates. Following the final primaries on June 3, 2008, Obama had gained enough delegates to become the presumptive nominee. In a speech before her supporters on June 7, Clinton ended her campaign and endorsed Obama. By campaign's end, Clinton had won 1,640 pledged delegates to Obama's 1,763; at the time of the clinching, Clinton had 286 superdelegates to Obama's 395, with those numbers widening to 256 versus 438 once

text: that the former President "needs to stop." Bill Clinton did subsequently maintain a lower profile on the campaign, relying on standard talking points and rarely mentioning Obama by name, or if he did, praising him: "I'm not against anybody. I'm "for" Hillary ... If you disagree, you have another very attractive choice." Bill Clinton said that in retrospect, "Everything I have said has been factually accurate, but I think the mistake I made was to think I was a spouse just like any other spouse who could defend his candidate. I think I can promote Hillary but not defend her

title: Political positions of Hillary Clinton

text: of business economists feel that Clinton would do the best job as president of managing the U.S. economy (with 15% choosing Gary Johnson, 15% saying that they did not know or did not have an opinion, and 14% choosing Donald Trump). According to a survey by the "Wall Street Journal", 13 of the 20 former Democratic members of the White House Council of Economic Advisers openly support Clinton, and none of the 20 oppose her. Nineteen Nobel laureates in economics signed a letter endorsing Clinton, saying "Hillary Clinton is by far the superior presidential candidate for our economy and our

title: Hillary Clinton

text: of absence from Rose Law to campaign for him full-time. During her second stint as First Lady of Arkansas, she made a point of using Hillary Rodham Clinton as her name. She was named chair of the Arkansas Education Standards Committee in 1983, where she sought to reform the state's court-sanctioned public education system. 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 and state standards for curriculum and classroom size. It became her introduction into the politics of a highly visible

title: Hillary Clinton

text: Her favorability ratings dropped, however, after she left office and began to be viewed in the context of partisan politics once more. By September 2015, with her 2016 presidential campaign underway and beset by continued reports regarding her private email usage at the State Department, her ratings had slumped to some of her lowest levels ever. During 2016 she acknowledged that: "I'm not a natural politician, in case you haven't noticed." Official Organizations Media coverage Other Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (born October 26, 1947) is an American politician, diplomat, lawyer, writer, and public speaker. She served as the

title: Hillary Clinton

text: On June 14, after the Congressional baseball shooting, Clinton tweeted, "2 sides take the field tomorrow, but we're all ultimately on one team. My thoughts are with the members of Congress, staff & heroic police." In October 2018, Hillary and Bill Clinton announced plans to go on a 13-city speaking tour in various cities in the United States and Canada between November 2018 and May 2019. On October 10, 2018 Hillary was awarded an honorary doctorate in law (LLD) at Queen's University Belfast after giving a speech regarding Northern Ireland and the impacts of Brexit at Whitla Hall, Belfast. A

text: virtual cottage industry" of "anti-Clinton literature", put out by Regnery Publishing and other conservative imprints, with titles such as "", "Hillary's Scheme: Inside the Next Clinton's Ruthless Agenda to Take the White House" and "Can She Be Stopped?: Hillary Clinton Will Be the Next President of the United States Unless ..." Books praising Clinton did not sell nearly as well (other than the memoirs written by her and her husband). When she ran for Senate in 2000, a number of fundraising groups such as Save Our Senate and the Emergency Committee to Stop Hillary Rodham Clinton sprang up to oppose

text: Hillary Clinton 2008 presidential campaign The 2008 presidential campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton, then junior United States Senator from New York, was announced on her website on January 20, 2007. Hillary Clinton was previously the First Lady of the United States and First Lady of Arkansas prior to her election as U.S. Senator from New York. She is also the wife of former President Bill Clinton. Clinton was the source of much media speculation since having expressed interest in being a candidate in the 2008 presidential election since at least October 2002. Following her announcement of an exploratory committee and

title: Hillary Clinton email controversy

text: episode, Clinton critics have accused her or her aides of deleting emails that were under subpoena, alleging the server had been "bleached" or "acid-washed" by a "very expensive" process in an effort to destroy evidence, with candidate Donald Trump stating the day before the 2016 election that "Hillary Clinton erased more than 30,000 emails as part of a cover-up." Trump continued with this narrative as late as August 2018, asking "Look at the crimes that Clinton did with the emails and she deletes 33,000 emails after she gets a subpoena from Congress, and this Justice Department does nothing about it?"

title: Hillary Clinton cattle futures controversy

text: trades throughout the ten months. Regarding suggestions that Blair had favored Clinton so that Tyson Foods could gain influence with Governor Clinton, they pointed out that CEO Don Tyson, who had in 1978 endorsed Clinton, in 1980 endorsed Frank D. White, Clinton's opponent in his reelection bid. Tyson denied any knowledge of Blair's trading partnership with Clinton. The "New York Times" noted, however, that notwithstanding Hillary Clinton's "artful explanation", the commodities trading had ended over a year before the 1980 election and that Tyson had switched sides after Bill Clinton did not lobby the state legislature to increase the weight

text: Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign The 2016 presidential campaign of Hillary Rodham Clinton was announced in a YouTube video, on April 12, 2015. Hillary Clinton was the 67th United States Secretary of State and served during the first term of the Obama administration, 2009 to 2013. She was previously a United States Senator from New York, 2001 to 2009, and is the wife of former President Bill Clinton, serving as First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Clinton's main competitor in the 2016 Democratic primary election was Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. She received the most support from

text: where Poehler's version visited McKinnon, with a guest appearance from Fey as Sarah Palin. On March 12, 2016, in episode 15 of season 41, Kate McKinnon spoofed Hillary Clinton in a faux campaign ad that portrayed how the campaign rhetoric of Clinton increasingly acquired more progressive overtones as a response to the progressive leftist ideology of Bernie Sanders. The ad features McKinnon as Hillary, using phrases commonly used by Bernie Sanders and also mimicing his Brooklyn accent. It further goes on to show McKinnon as Hillary morph into McKinnon as Hillary as Bernie Sanders, dressed in a oversize suit and

title: Hillary Clinton

text: Justice Department officials were "acutely aware of demands from President Donald Trump" to investigate Clinton. When Clinton left the State Department, she returned to private life for the first time in thirty years. She and her daughter joined her husband as named members of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation in 2013. There she focused on early childhood development efforts, including an initiative called Too Small to Fail and a $600 million initiative to encourage the enrollment of girls in secondary schools worldwide, led by former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard. Clinton also led the No Ceilings: The Full

text: Clinton can seem harsh when she goes on the attack; Mrs. Palin has shown a knack for attacking without seeming nasty. Mrs. Clinton has a lot of experience; Ms. Palin, not so much. Mrs. Clinton is pantsuits; Mrs. Palin is skirts." Guy Cecil, the former political director of Mrs. Clinton's campaign, said it was "insulting" for Republicans to compare Palin to Clinton. A "Saturday Night Live" skit, "A Nonpartisan Message From Governor Sarah Palin & Senator Hillary Clinton", counterposed Palin, played by Tina Fey, against Hillary Clinton, played by Amy Poehler. Fey presented Palin as a dimwit unable to understand

text: noted that they would no longer use "Rodham" in referring to Clinton, with the AP stating that "the campaign says to go with Hillary Clinton", and the New York Times providing the statement that: The changing usage of Clinton's name has been noted by various observers, and has been related to her political and social role at the time: Political detractors have often referred to Clinton by any of a number of portmanteau names combining "Hillary" with other words having negative connotations. Cultural and political image of Hillary Clinton The cultural and political image of Hillary Clinton has been explored

text: powerful." Among the early users of "Billary" in a derogatory sense was Rush Limbaugh, in his 1993 book, "See, I Told You So". In some media, her name has been abbreviated as "Hill", particularly when used in combination with that of her husband, as "Bill and Hill". Clinton was assigned the Secret Service codename "Evergreen". Clinton continued to use "Hillary Rodham Clinton" on her website and elsewhere once she was a U.S. Senator. When she ran for president during 2007–08, she used the name "Hillary Clinton" or just "Hillary" in campaign materials, and appeared on state ballots as "Hillary Clinton".

text: in episode 10 of season 42, Kate McKinnon played Hillary Clinton urging an elector not to vote for Donald Trump, parodying a scene from "Love Actually". Saturday Night Live parodies of Hillary Clinton The sketch comedy television show "Saturday Night Live" ("SNL") has for almost three decades aired a number of sketches parodying Hillary Clinton, from her time as First Lady, and during both her presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2016. A total of nine different performers have played Hillary Clinton on "SNL". The array of "SNL" cast members portraying Clinton has included Jan Hooks, Janeane Garofalo, Vanessa Bayer, Ana

text: During this time, the blended name "Billary" came to be used to refer to Bill and Hillary Clinton as a pair. Sidney Johnson, president of the Arkansas Education Association, said of the couple that "[s]omething would come down and you wouldn't know which one of them thought of it, where Bill stopped and Hillary began. That's why we called them 'Billary.'" One observer notes that "[t]he Clintons originally warmed to Billary because it suggested the public would get two smart politicians for one, but it soon became a term of derision for those who saw Hillary Rodham Clinton as too

text: Hillary Clinton 2008 presidential primary campaign Hillary Clinton won many primaries, but lost the Democratic Party nomination to Barack Obama during the United States presidential election, 2008. In February 2007 "The Los Angeles Times" reported that several anti-Clinton organizations, including Stop Her Now and "Stop Hillary PAC", were preparing "swiftboating" style attacks against her, with venues to include a documentary film, numerous books, and websites. A top Rudy Giuliani donor, Richard Collins, who has also supported George W. Bush for several years, was central in establishing "Stop Her Now." CNN reported that 320,000 users joined the Facebook group "Stop Hillary

title: Hillary Clinton email controversy

text: and "I will be accepting their recommendations." On July 1, 2016, the "New York Times" reported in the name of a "Justice Department official" that Attorney General Loretta Lynch will accept "whatever recommendation career prosecutors and the F.B.I. director make about whether to bring charges related to Hillary Clinton's personal email server." Clinton maintained she did not send or receive any confidential emails from her personal server. In a Democratic debate with Bernie Sanders on February 4, 2016, Clinton said, "I never sent or received any classified material." In a Meet the Press interview on July 2, 2016, she stated:

title: Hillary Clinton email controversy

text: were long-standing" and that Clinton "took steps that went much further than others to appropriately preserve and release her records." However, the Associated Press said, "The audit did note that former Secretary of State Colin Powell had also exclusively used a private email account. ... But the failings of Clinton were singled out in the audit as being more serious than her predecessor." The report stated that "By Secretary Clinton's tenure, the department's guidance was considerably more detailed and more sophisticated, Secretary Clinton's cybersecurity practices accordingly must be evaluated in light of these more comprehensive directives." In 2008, before Hillary

title: Political positions of Hillary Clinton

text: a defensive action in order to prevent the political momentum to amend the Constitution of the United States of America to ban same-sex marriage. On October 29, 2015, Hillary Clinton endorsed Proposition 1. On November 2, 2015, Clinton got into a Twitter fight with Governor Greg Abbott over Proposition 1. On November 6, 2015, at the First in the South Candidates Forum, Clinton, when asked why Proposition 1 failed, stated that "the far right did, very successfully, is really engender a lot of fear and a lot of anxiety, and create this backlash against this ordinance. And they used the

title: Hillary Clinton

text: on September 12, 2017, by Simon & Schuster, in print, e-book, and audio read by the author. A book tour and series of interviews and personal appearances were arranged for the launch. Over a hundred books and scholarly works have been written about Clinton, from many perspectives. A 2006 survey by the "New York Observer" found "a virtual cottage industry" of "anti-Clinton literature", put out by Regnery Publishing and other conservative imprints, with titles such as "", "Hillary's Scheme: Inside the Next Clinton's Ruthless Agenda to Take the White House" and "Can She Be Stopped?: Hillary Clinton Will Be the

title: Hillary Clinton

text: disappointment that "Christianity, which has such great love at its core, is sometimes used to condemn so quickly and judge so harshly." Professor Paul Kengor, author of "God and Hillary Clinton: A Spiritual Life", has suggested that Clinton's political positions are rooted in her faith. Clinton often expresses a certain maxim which is often attributed to John Wesley: "Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can." In fact, Clinton repeated this saying in her acceptance speech at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, adding that her mother Dorothy "made sure I

title: Hillary Clinton

text: the first chair of the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession, created to address gender bias in the legal profession and induce the association to adopt measures to combat it. She was twice named by "The National Law Journal" as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America: in 1988 and in 1991. When Bill Clinton thought about not running again for governor in 1990, Hillary Clinton considered running, but private polls were unfavorable and, in the end, he ran and was re-elected for the final time. Clinton served as Chairman of the Board of the

text: Tim Kaine; the announcement was reported by CNN after midnight (U.S. Eastern Time) on August 22. During the Democratic National Convention, Clinton released her delegates and urged them to vote for Barack Obama. On August 27, 2008, she motioned that Sen. Obama be officially nominated by acclamation. Hillary Clinton 2008 presidential primary campaign Hillary Clinton won many primaries, but lost the Democratic Party nomination to Barack Obama during the United States presidential election, 2008. In February 2007 "The Los Angeles Times" reported that several anti-Clinton organizations, including Stop Her Now and "Stop Hillary PAC", were preparing "swiftboating" style attacks against

text: to an online poll, "half of likely voters nationwide said they would never vote for New York Sen. Hillary Clinton." A October 10, 2007, article in "The Hill" made the opposite argument stating that Clinton was "not polarizing and highly electable. You didn't misread that headline. It is contrary to all current conventional wisdom. It is also true – supported not only by recent national polling data but by most polls all year long. Susan Estrich, on p.66 of her 2005 book, "The Case for Hillary Clinton" argues, "Hillary Clinton is not polarizing; her competence is accepted." On September 17,

text: appearance as Clinton, rapping: "What's up y'all? I'm like Hillary Clint , and I wanna be president one day." Jan Hooks was the first to portray Hillary Clinton, and after Hooks left the show in 1991, she returned later to make several subsequent guest appearances as Hillary, with Phil Hartman as Hillary's husband Bill Clinton. One of the earliest Jan Hooks sketches, which aired in May 1993, features her interpretation of Hillary eager to be a "co-president" with Bill, now the newly elected President. Hooks' Hillary tells her husband about her big plans for his health care bill, and gets

text: comments because they were widely seen as implying that Obama was "the black candidate. " Hillary Clinton would later apologize for her husband's remarks in front of the State of the Black Union conference. Clinton had already left the state and gave her concession speech from Tennessee State University, where she said she was looking forward to the February 5 Super Duper Tuesday contests. In late 2007, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his sisters Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and Kerry Kennedy (children of the late Senator and United States Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy) announced that they would be endorsing Hillary

text: Hillary Clinton cattle futures controversy In 1978 and 1979, lawyer and First Lady of Arkansas Hillary Rodham Clinton engaged in a series of trades of cattle futures contracts. Her initial $1,000 investment had generated nearly $100,000 when she stopped trading after ten months. In 1994, after Clinton had become First Lady of the United States, the trading became the subject of considerable controversy regarding the likelihood of such a spectacular rate of return, possible conflict of interest, and allegations of disguised bribery. Clinton had no experience in such financial instruments. Bill Clinton's salary as Arkansas Attorney General and then Governor

text: either. Darrell Hammond has stated that he only agreed to reprise his role as Bill Clinton because he felt McKinnon was so good in her role, calling her a "virtuoso". McKinnon appeared as Clinton alongside Amy Poehler's Clinton (and Tina Fey's Sarah Palin) when the duo returned to host in 2015, with the premise that 2008 Hillary had come to congratulate 2016 Hillary in a dream. In the 2014–2015 season, "SNL" began airing another series of Hillary Clinton sketches, on the occasion of Clinton's announcement of her candidacy for the 2016 presidential campaign, with Kate McKinnon now as Clinton. In

text: Saturday Night Live parodies of Hillary Clinton The sketch comedy television show "Saturday Night Live" ("SNL") has for almost three decades aired a number of sketches parodying Hillary Clinton, from her time as First Lady, and during both her presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2016. A total of nine different performers have played Hillary Clinton on "SNL". The array of "SNL" cast members portraying Clinton has included Jan Hooks, Janeane Garofalo, Vanessa Bayer, Ana Gasteyer, Amy Poehler, and Kate McKinnon. Guest stars playing Clinton have included Drew Barrymore and Rachel Dratch. One sketch even featured Miley Cyrus in a guest

title: Hillary Clinton

text: Jonathan Mann wrote songs about her, including but not limited to "The Hillary Shimmy Song", which went viral. Clinton has often been described in the popular media as a polarizing figure, with some arguing otherwise. Going into the early stages of her presidential campaign for 2008, a "Time" magazine cover showed a large picture of her, with two checkboxes labeled "Love Her", "Hate Her", while "Mother Jones" titled its profile of her "Harpy, Hero, Heretic: Hillary". Following Clinton's "choked up moment" and related incidents in the run-up to the January 2008 New Hampshire primary, both "The New York Times" and

title: Hillary Clinton

text: ideas about the role of a first lady were enough to send Hillary Clinton into "imaginary discussions" with the also-politically-active Eleanor Roosevelt. From the time she came to Washington, Hillary also found refuge in a prayer group of the Fellowship that featured many wives of conservative Washington figures. Triggered in part by the death of her father in April 1993, she publicly sought to find a synthesis of Methodist teachings, liberal religious political philosophy and "Tikkun" editor Michael Lerner's "politics of meaning" to overcome what she saw as America's "sleeping sickness of the soul"; that would lead to a willingness

text: Clinton: (One Million Strong AGAINST Hillary)". The news blog, "The Politico" gave the membership number as 418,000 members. This group was the largest group for or against a presidential candidate on Facebook; "The Politico" argued that this happened because "Clinton has had a polarizing effect." Former Bill Clinton fundraiser and ally David Geffen spoke out against Hillary Clinton in an interview with Maureen Dowd. Geffen stated that Clinton "was overproduced and overscripted." He also stated that, "I don't think anybody believes that in the last six years, all of a sudden Bill Clinton has become a different person [...] Everybody

text: suspected of having polarized the Democrat electorate and harming Hillary Clinton's standing among women, in addition to having contributed to Ted Kennedy's decision to endorse Obama. Congressman Charles Rangel, an outspoken Hillary Clinton supporter, said of Bill Clinton, "He's got to [pull back]. The focus has got to get back on Hillary. For all that he cares about his wife, this has to be her election to win, and it's become too much about his role." By two days after South Carolina, CNN's Candy Crowley reported that there was "a huge wave" of sentiment inside and outside the Clinton campaign

text: She used "Hillary Rodham Clinton" again in official materials while serving as United States Secretary of State. In some instances, particularly in email correspondence, Clinton was referred to or signed communications by her initials, HRC. As Secretary of State, Clinton used "hdr22@clintonemail.com" as her private email address, incorporating her premarital initials. As of the 2015 launch of her second presidential campaign, she again switched to using "Hillary Clinton" in campaign materials. Clinton's Twitter account notes that tweets "from Hillary" (as opposed to staffers) are signed -H. As of November 30, 2015, both the "Associated Press" and the "New York Times"

title: Hillary Clinton email controversy

text: Hillary Clinton email controversy During her tenure as United States Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton drew controversy by using her family's private email server for official communications rather than using official State Department email accounts maintained on secure federal servers. An FBI examination of Clinton's server found over 100 emails containing classified information, including 65 emails deemed "Secret" and 22 deemed "Top Secret", none with classification markings. An additional 2,093 emails not marked classified were retroactively classified by the State Department. Some experts, officials, and members of Congress contended that Clinton's use of a private messaging system and a private

text: amusement. Tanya Romaniuk also described how "the news media reshaped the kinds of meanings and values attached to" Clinton's 'cackle' characterization, "and concomitantly (re)produced and reinforced a stereotypically gendered, negative (i.e., sexist, misogynist) perception of her." Use against Clinton of the "bitch" epithet flourished during the campaign, especially on the Internet but via conventional media as well. Hundreds of YouTube videos carried the word, with such titles as "Hillary Clinton: The Bitch is Back" and "Hillary Clinton: Crazy Bitch", and a Facebook groups with the theme proliferated, including one named "Life's a Bitch, Why Vote for One?" that had more

title: Political positions of Hillary Clinton

text: issued a joint statement in favor of ruling in the case of the "United States v. Windsor". During her 2016 presidential campaign, Clinton has stressing the important of anti-discrimination laws covering sexual orientation and gender identity, stating that "you can get married on Saturday and get fired on Monday because we still permit discrimination in employment and in public accommodations." On March 26, 2015, Hillary Clinton condemned the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. On April 15, 2015, Adrienne Elrod, spokesperson for Hillary for America, stated that Clinton hoped that the United State Supreme Court would find a constitutional right for same-sex

title: Hillary Clinton

text: "Newsweek" found that discussion of gender's role in the campaign had moved into the national political discourse. "Newsweek" editor Jon Meacham summed the relationship between Clinton and the American public by saying that the New Hampshire events "brought an odd truth to light: though Hillary Rodham Clinton has been on the periphery or in the middle of national life for decades ... she is one of the most recognizable but least understood figures in American politics." Once she became Secretary of State, Clinton's image seemed to improve dramatically among the American public and become one of a respected world figure.

title: Hillary Clinton

text: the media and popular culture from a wide spectrum of varying perspectives. In 1995, writer Todd S. Purdum of "The New York Times" characterized Clinton as a Rorschach test, an assessment echoed at the time by feminist writer and activist Betty Friedan, who said, "Coverage of Hillary Clinton is a massive Rorschach test of the evolution of women in our society." She has been the subject of many satirical impressions on "Saturday Night Live", beginning with her time as first lady and has made guest appearances on the show herself, in 2008 and in 2015, to face-off with her doppelgängers.

title: Hillary Clinton

text: was estimated to be worth over $30 million on her own, or $45–53 million with her husband. Clinton resigned from the foundation's board in April 2015, when she began her presidential campaign and the foundation said it would accept new foreign governmental donations from six Western nations only. On April 12, 2015, Clinton formally announced her candidacy for the presidency in the 2016 election. She had a campaign-in-waiting already in place, including a large donor network, experienced operatives and the Ready for Hillary and Priorities USA Action political action committees and other infrastructure. The campaign's headquarters were established in the

title: Hillary Clinton

text: margin to Obama in the January 26 South Carolina primary, setting up, with Edwards soon dropping out, an intense two-person contest for the twenty-two February 5 Super Tuesday states. Bill Clinton had made more statements attracting criticism for their perceived racial implications late in the South Carolina campaign and his role was seen as damaging enough to her that a wave of supporters within and outside of the campaign said the former President "needs to stop". The South Carolina campaign had done lasting damage to Hillary Clinton, eroding her support among the Democratic establishment and leading to the prized endorsement

title: Hillary Clinton

text: Lady had ever run for president. When Bill Clinton became president in 1993, a blind trust was established; in April 2007, the Clintons liquidated the blind trust to avoid the possibility of ethical conflicts or political embarrassments as Hillary undertook her presidential race. Later disclosure statements revealed that the couple's worth was now upwards of $50 million, and that they had earned over $100 million since 2000, with most of it coming from Bill's books, speaking engagements and other activities. Throughout the first half of 2007, Clinton led candidates competing for the Democratic presidential nomination in opinion polls for the

title: Hillary Clinton

text: does. Even after all these years, he is still the most interesting, energizing and fully alive person I have ever met." Issues that surrounded the Lewinsky scandal left Bill Clinton with substantial legal bills. In 2014, Hillary would state that she and Bill had left the White House "not only dead broke, but in debt." The statement may have been literally accurate but ignored the potentially enormous earning power of ex-presidents who gave paid speeches after leaving office. The couple would also have the ability to secure loans from banks. Clinton initiated and was the founding chair of Save America's

title: Hillary Clinton

text: "to remold society by redefining what it means to be a human being in the twentieth century, moving into a new millennium." In January 1993, President Clinton named Hillary to chair a Task Force on National Health Care Reform, hoping to replicate the success she had in leading the effort for Arkansas education reform. Unconvinced regarding the merits of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), she privately urged that passage of health care reform be given higher priority. The recommendation of the task force became known as the Clinton health care plan, a comprehensive proposal that would require employers

title: Hillary Clinton

text: stay-at-home mothers and in retrospect, were ill-considered by her own admission. Bill said that in electing him, the nation would "get two for the price of one", referring to the prominent role his wife would assume. Beginning with Daniel Wattenberg's August 1992 "The American Spectator" article "The Lady Macbeth of Little Rock", Hillary's own past ideological and ethical record came under attack from conservatives. At least twenty other articles in major publications also drew comparisons between her and Lady Macbeth. When Bill Clinton took office as president in January 1993, Hillary Rodham Clinton became the First Lady, and her press

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text: would be lost and that her accomplishments would be viewed in light of someone else. In 1974, Bill Clinton lost an Arkansas congressional race, facing incumbent Republican Hammersmith. Rodham and Bill Clinton bought a house in Fayetteville in the summer of 1975 and she finally agreed to marry him. The wedding took place on October 11, 1975, in a Methodist ceremony in their living room. A story about the marriage in the "Arkansas Gazette" indicated that she decided to retain the name Hillary Rodham. Her motivation was threefold. She wanted to keep the couple's professional lives separate, avoid apparent conflicts

title: Hillary Clinton

text: her to serve as defense counsel to a man accused of raping a 12-year-old girl; after her request to be relieved of the assignment failed, Clinton used an effective defense and directed her client to plead guilty to a much lesser charge. Decades later, the victim said that the defense counsel had put her "through hell" during the legal process; Hillary Clinton has called the trial a "terrible case". During her time in Fayetteville, Rodham and several other women founded the city's first rape crisis center. Rodham still harbored doubts about getting married; she was concerned that her separate identity

text: Clinton violated no rules in the course of her transactions." But as to the question of whether she had been allocated profits from larger block trades, he said of the new accounting, "It doesn't suggest that there was allocation, and it doesn't prove there wasn't," an assessment of uncertainty shared by Merton Miller, a Nobel Prize-winning economist at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Hillary Clinton's defenders, including White House Counsel Lloyd Cutler, maintained throughout that she had made her own decisions, that her own money was constantly at risk, and that she made both winning and losing

title: Political positions of Hillary Clinton

text: Political positions of Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton, the nominee of the Democratic Party for president of the United States in 2016, has taken positions on political issues while serving as First Lady of Arkansas (1979–81; 1983–92), First Lady of the United States (1993–2001); as U.S. Senator from New York (2001–2009); and serving as the United States Secretary of State (2009–2013). In accordance with longstanding custom, during her time as Secretary of State she largely avoided taking stances on most domestic political issues. In 2015, she announced her candidacy for the presidency. Clinton won the Democratic primaries and formally became the

title: Electoral history of Hillary Clinton

text: (2,118 delegates needed to secure nomination) Confirmation in the United States Senate: 2016 Democratic presidential primaries popular vote 2016 Democratic delegate counts: (2,382 delegates needed to secure nomination) United States presidential election, 2016 Electoral history of Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton, a Democrat, served as the 67th United States Secretary of State (2009–2013), United States Senator from New York (2001–2009), and First Lady of the United States (1993–2001).`She was a candidate for the 2008 and Democratic presidential primary and won the 2016 nomination. Clinton is one of few politicians who has won the popular vote in every election she was a

title: Electoral history of Hillary Clinton

text: Electoral history of Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton, a Democrat, served as the 67th United States Secretary of State (2009–2013), United States Senator from New York (2001–2009), and First Lady of the United States (1993–2001).`She was a candidate for the 2008 and Democratic presidential primary and won the 2016 nomination. Clinton is one of few politicians who has won the popular vote in every election she was a candidate. Confirmation in the United States Senate: 1978 1980 Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2008 Excluding penalized contests, only primary and caucuses votes: Including penalized contests: 2008 Democratic delegate counts (just before dropping out):

text: cable television news history. In the days after the debate, Hillary Clinton left to campaign in some Super Duper Tuesday states, while Bill Clinton stayed in South Carolina and engaged in a series of exchanges with Obama. Clinton's decision to leave the state was subject to criticism. Hillary aides responded by stating that criticism directed towards Clinton was created in order to "undermine the former president". Edwards stayed clear of the fray in the debate and later said that he represented the "grown-up wing" of the party. Bill Clinton attracted controversy for his participation in his wife's campaign after a

text: reprised her Clinton impression for the new season, portraying the presidential candidate enjoying a drink, opposite the real Hillary Clinton playing a bartender named "Val", who sings with her doppelgänger, and offers her counsel. "So Hillary, what brings you here tonight?", Clinton asks McKinnon. "Well, I needed to blow off some steam. I've had a hard couple of 22 years." McKinnon-as-Clinton responds. Cecily Strong plays Clinton's aide Huma Abedin in the skit, and former cast member Darrell Hammond appears in a cameo as Bill Clinton. McKinnon again portrayed Clinton on October 17, 2015, for "SNL"s rendering of the Democratic Primary

text: Clinton as violating gender norms. Going into the early stages of her presidential campaign for 2008, a "Time" magazine cover showed a large picture of her, with two checkboxes labeled "Love Her", "Hate Her", while "Mother Jones" titled its profile of her "Harpy, Hero, Heretic: Hillary". Democratic netroots activists consistently rated Clinton very low in polls of their desired candidates, while some conservative figures such as Bruce Bartlett and Christopher Ruddy were declaring a Hillary Clinton presidency not so bad after all. An October 2007 cover of "The American Conservative" magazine was titled "The Waning Power of Hillary Hate". By

text: Trump as they debated in their final debate; Tom Hanks played moderator Chris Wallace. On November 5, 2016, in episode 5 of season 42, Kate McKinnon played Hillary Clinton and Alec Baldwin played Donald Trump as they went on "Erin Burnett OutFront". On November 12, 2016, in episode 6 of season 42, Kate McKinnon played Hillary Clinton performing "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen. On December 3, 2016, in episode 8 of season 42, Kate McKinnon played Hillary Clinton being searched for in the woods of Chappaqua by investigators, who were played by Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney. On December 17, 2016,

text: sporting white hair. On April 9, 2016, in episode 17 of season 41, Kate McKinnon played Hillary Clinton speaking about her losing streak. On April 16, 2016, in episode 18 of season 41, Kate McKinnon played Hillary Clinton in a debate in Brooklyn with Bernie Sanders (played by Larry David). On May 21, 2016, in episode 21 of season 41, Kate McKinnon played Hillary Clinton and Larry David played Bernie Sanders, as they remembered their time competing against each other in the Democratic primary. Despite earlier reports that Darrell Hammond would reprise his role as Donald Trump for "SNL's" parodies

text: actual young supporters instead of high-paid media consultants. In early July 2007, Bill Clinton "served as an opening act" for Hillary during a three-day tour. It was the "first joint public campaign appearance for the couple since Hillary Clinton announced her bid for the White House in January." Following the July 12, 2007, Democratic candidates debate at an NAACP convention, a live microphone caught Clinton discussing in private with third-in-the-polls fellow candidate John Edwards how to get future debates limited to fewer candidates: "We've got to cut the number . . . They're not serious." In July 2007, watchdog group

title: Hillary Doctrine

text: policy of the Barack Obama administration and Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State to see whether their actions reflected commitment to the Hillary Doctrine. In many cases, they found that it did, such as appointing many women to positions of power, increasing funding for the Office of Global Women's Issues by a factor of ten, heavy use of social media, and Clinton's local visits to women's groups. Indeed, Clinton made the empowerment of women worldwide the signature issue of her time as Secretary of State. But they also note a number of occasions where Clinton and the administration were

title: HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton

text: HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton is a 2014 book by two Washington-based reporters, Amie Parnes and Jonathan Allen, about the tenure of Hillary Rodham Clinton (hence the 'HRC' of the title) as United States Secretary of State and about how she recovered politically from her loss in the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries. The book was particularly noted by the media for saying that Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, compiled a "hit list" of individuals who were viewed as having had been unhelpful during her

text: a vice presidential candidate. It had nothing to do with my qualification." By the day of the March 11 Mississippi primary, the comments had achieved wider circulation and she was accused of being racially insensitive. Hillary Clinton rejected Ferraro's comments – saying, "It is regrettable that any of our supporters on both sides, because we've both had that experience, say things that kind of veer off into the personal. We ought to keep this on the issues" – but did not call for Ferraro's resignation from the Clinton campaign. Ferraro rejected apologizing or repudiating her comments once they came under

text: of health care and energy policy, that drew such strong support. Sarah Palin's opposition to Roe v. Wade and her support of big oil will not draw Democrats from the Obama-Biden ticket." President of the National Organization for Women (NOW) Kim Gandy said "What McCain does not understand is that women supported Hillary Clinton not just because she was a woman, but because she was a champion on their issues. They will surely not find Sarah Palin to be an advocate for women." In mid September 2008, a flurry of articles circulated announcing that "Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin plan

text: limit on trucks, although Tyson believed that he had received such a promise from him at the time of the 1978 election. Clinton's defenders also stressed that Blair and others stayed in the market longer than Clinton and lost much of what they had previously earned, showing that the risk was real. Indeed, some reports had Blair losing $15 million and Bone was reported as bankrupt. There never was any official governmental investigation into, or findings about, or charges brought regarding Hillary Rodham's cattle futures trading. Hillary Clinton cattle futures controversy In 1978 and 1979, lawyer and First Lady of

title: Hillary Clinton email controversy

text: would be accused of concealing relevant information if he did not disclose it. News of this renewed investigation being revealed shortly before the U.S. presidential election led to the announcement being described as an "October surprise," and prompted statements from both the Democratic and Republican campaigns. Donald Trump repeated his characterization that Hillary Clinton's email usage as secretary of state was "worse than Watergate." Clinton called for the FBI to immediately release all information about the newly discovered emails and said she was confident the FBI would not change its earlier conclusion that there is no basis for criminal prosecution.

text: Cultural and political image of Hillary Clinton The cultural and political image of Hillary Clinton has been explored since the early 1990s, when her husband Bill Clinton launched his presidential campaign, and has continued to draw broad public attention during her time as First Lady of the United States, U.S. Senator from New York, 67th United States Secretary of State, and the Democratic Party's nominee for President of the United States in the 2016 election. Over a hundred books and scholarly works have been written about Clinton, from many perspectives. A 2006 survey by the "New York Observer" found "a

title: United States Senate career of Hillary Clinton

text: as Clinton's successor. United States Senate career of Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham Clinton served as a United States Senator from New York from January 3, 2001 to January 21, 2009. She won the United States Senate election in New York, 2000 and the United States Senate election in New York, 2006. Clinton resigned from the Senate on January 21, 2009 to become United States Secretary of State for the Obama Administration. Clinton served on five Senate committees with nine subcommittee assignments: She was also a Commissioner of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (2001-2009). She also held two

text: United States Senate career of Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham Clinton served as a United States Senator from New York from January 3, 2001 to January 21, 2009. She won the United States Senate election in New York, 2000 and the United States Senate election in New York, 2006. Clinton resigned from the Senate on January 21, 2009 to become United States Secretary of State for the Obama Administration. Clinton served on five Senate committees with nine subcommittee assignments: She was also a Commissioner of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (2001-2009). She also held two leadership positions in

title: Hillary Clinton

text: that harmed her 2008 effort. On March 1 ("Super Tuesday"), Clinton won seven of eleven contests, including a string of dominating victories across the South buoyed, as in South Carolina, by African-American voters and opened up a significant lead in pledged delegates over Sanders. She maintained this delegate lead across subsequent contests during the primary season, with a consistent pattern throughout. Sanders did better among younger, whiter, more rural and more liberal voters and in states that held caucuses or where eligibility was open to independents, while Clinton did better among older and more black and Hispanic voter populations and

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text: services, including access to contraception, develop a vaccine and treatment, and ensure people know how to protect themselves and their kids." Political positions of Hillary Clinton Hillary Clinton, the nominee of the Democratic Party for president of the United States in 2016, has taken positions on political issues while serving as First Lady of Arkansas (1979–81; 1983–92), First Lady of the United States (1993–2001); as U.S. Senator from New York (2001–2009); and serving as the United States Secretary of State (2009–2013). In accordance with longstanding custom, during her time as Secretary of State she largely avoided taking stances on most

title: Political positions of Hillary Clinton

text: the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008. On October 1, 2007, Clinton voted in favor of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008. On October 27, 2007, Clinton voted against George W. Bush's nomination of Leslie Southwick as a federal judge to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Clinton received a score of 95% on the Human Rights Campaign 110th Congress scorecard. On June 27, 2011, Clinton endorsed the Marriage Equality Act. On March 18, 2013, Clinton came out in favor of same-sex marriage. On June 26, 2013, Hillary and Bill Clinton

title: Hillary Doctrine

text: an article titled "The Hillary Clinton Doctrine" (the only place in the article that mentions "doctrine") for "The National Interest". However, the article mostly analyzes foreign policy trends of the last several U.S. administrations and makes suggestions for what a Hillary Clinton foreign policy should be while emphasizing the limitations and difficulties of possible courses of action. No explicit mention of a "Hillary Doctrine" by name has been made by Clinton herself. Moreover, in "Hard Choices", she stated that there was no unified "Obama Doctrine" during her tenure either, saying the range of problems the country faced did not allow

title: Hillary Clinton email controversy

text: funder and GOP mega-donor Rebekah Mercer had proposed creating a searchable data base for Hillary Clinton emails in the public domain and then forwarded this suggestion to several people, including Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix, who personally emailed a request to Julian Assange for Clinton's emails. Assange responded to the report by saying he denied Nix's request. The emails showed that Blumenthal communicated with Clinton while Secretary on a variety of issues including Benghazi. On March 11, 2015, the day after Clinton acknowledged her private email account, the Associated Press (AP) filed suit against the State Department regarding multiple FOIA

title: Hillary Clinton email controversy

text: source an FBI investigation of the Clinton Foundation was "likely" to lead to an indictment of Hillary Clinton. On November 4, 2016, he acknowledged that his assertions were a mistake, saying, "indictment obviously is a very loaded word," and that he was sorry. On March 27, 2015, Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy, Chairman of the Select Committee on Benghazi, asserted that some time after October 2014, Clinton "unilaterally decided to wipe her server clean" and "summarily decided to delete all emails." Clinton's attorney, David E. Kendall, said that day that an examination showed that no copies of any of Clinton's emails

title: Hillary Clinton email controversy

text: containing more than 30,000 emails. Clinton withheld almost 32,000 emails deemed to be of a personal nature. Datto, Inc., which provided data backup service for Clinton's email, agreed to give the FBI the hardware that stored the backups. As of May 2016, no answer had been provided to the public as to whether 31,000 emails deleted by Hillary Clinton as personal have been or could be recovered. A March 2, 2015 "New York Times" article broke the story that the Benghazi panel had discovered that Clinton exclusively used her own private email server rather than a government-issued one throughout her

title: Hillary Clinton email controversy

text: as the CIA is concerned. The controversy was a major point of discussion during the 2016 presidential election, in which Clinton was the Democratic nominee. In May, the State Department's Office of the Inspector General released a report about the State Department's email practices, including Clinton's. In July, FBI director James Comey announced that the FBI investigation had concluded that Clinton had been "extremely careless" but recommended that no charges be filed. Clinton's opponent, presidential candidate Donald Trump, used the nickname "Crooked Hillary" to criticize Clinton primarily for the email controversy. Trump supporters adopted the chant "lock her up" to

text: place between Clinton and Trump on September 26 at Hofstra University. This made Clinton the first woman to debate as part of an American presidential debate. The moderator was Lester Holt of NBC. A live-TV audience of 84 million viewers set a viewership record for presidential debates. All scientific polls show that voters thought Hillary Clinton performed better than Donald Trump in the debate. The second presidential debate in 2016 took place between Clinton and Trump on October 9 at Washington University in St. Louis. It was a town hall debate. The third and last presidential debate between Clinton and

text: Tina Fey glasses!" It was during the 2008–09 season, while Poehler was playing Clinton, that Hillary Clinton herself made an appearance on the show, and faced off with Poehler as her doppelgänger. The real Sarah Palin also made a guest appearance during season 34. Kate McKinnon has portrayed Clinton regularly since March 2015 (after playing the role once prior in 2013). As of December 2016, she is the most-frequently appearing Hillary with 20 performances in the role, ahead of Amy Poehler at 19 performances, and Ana Gasteyer (at 16), despite having played it for less than half as long as

text: her after Sir Edmund Hillary, co-first mountaineer to scale Mount Everest, and that was the reason for the less-common "two L's" spelling of her name. However, the first successful Everest climb did not take place until 1953, more than five years after she was born. In October 2006, a Clinton spokeswoman said she was not named after the mountain climber. Instead, this account of her name's origin "was a sweet family story her mother shared to inspire greatness in her daughter, to great results I might add." Following her marriage to Bill Clinton in 1975, she continued to be known

text: that as First Lady she had been against the agreement. Her opposition to NAFTA had been a key issue in the Ohio primary. The mid-March release of Clinton administration White House calendar documents that suggested that Hillary Clinton had participated in several meetings during 1993 to promote NAFTA's passage within Congress led to the Obama campaign accusing her of mendacity. Obama advisor David Axelrod said the documents provided "direct, incontrovertible evidence" that the First Lady worked for NAFTA's passage and that "This is the political equivalent of consumer fraud." The NAFTA matter thus became one of several where Clinton's credibility

text: to win the general election, and so I will ask my Democratic convention delegates to support seating the delegations from Florida and Michigan." This seemed to contradict her previous statement on NH public radio where she said, "Well, you know, it's clear, this election they're having is not going to count for anything." The Obama campaign responded that it was clear these contests were for no delegates and that "it seems like Hillary Clinton will do or say anything to win an election." The Clinton campaign benefited from a surge in fundraising after its New Hampshire win, garnering $6 million

text: tongue-in-cheek, "Well that hurts my feelings ... but I'll try to go on." In the wake of the Iowa defeat, the campaign hoped that Bill Clinton could help salvage a win in New Hampshire, where he had achieved a political comeback in his 1992 presidential campaign. As he had in Iowa, the former President campaigned intensively, but his New Hampshire appearances failed to draw large or enthusiastic crowds. On the day before the primary, press reports indicated that Hillary Clinton advisers were pessimistic about the immediate future, thinking it was unlikely she would be able to win either New Hampshire

text: oft-discussed discrepancy between hand-counted and machine-counted ballots was solely due to demographic factors. American poet, author, and actress, Maya Angelou recited her poem, "On the Pulse of Morning" at President Bill Clinton's inauguration in 1993, the first poet to do so since Robert Frost at John F. Kennedy's inauguration in 1961. In January 2008, Angelou announced that she wrote a poem for Hillary entitled "State Package for Hillary Clinton" for "The Observer". On the subject of writing the poem, "The Guardian" stated that, "Angelou is steadfast in her loyalty to Clinton. She said recently: 'I made up my mind 15

title: Political positions of Hillary Clinton

text: encourage real and lasting reforms for the Cuban people." As secretary of state, Clinton frequently criticized controversial Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and his government, saying that the U.S. was open to improving relations with the country but that "it doesn't appear that he wants to." In 2010, Chávez said in a speech: "I'm not loved by Hillary Clinton...and I don't love her either." Clinton described Chávez as "a self-aggrandizing dictator who was more of an aggravation than a real threat" in her book "Hard Choices". Clinton has proposed intensifying the current air campaign against ISIL's strongholds in Iraq and Syria.

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text: of expressing her own view that this was a genocide." The Clinton Foundation has been involved in channeling significant financial aid to Haiti both before and after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, leading both Bill and Hillary Clinton to become active supporters of Haitian politicians with mixed results. The Clinton Foundation's role in the creation of the Caracol Industrial Park has been the source of significant criticism. Greg Grandin and some other commentators have criticized Clinton for legitimizing the military-backed ouster of President Manuel Zelaya in the 2009 Honduran coup d'état, which occurred amidst a constitutional crisis in that country. Grandin