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The wife of former President [[Bill Clinton]] and a lawyer and politician in her own right, <s>First Lady</s> <s>Senator</s> <s>Secretary of State</s> Democrat Nominee Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is easily the most politically active First Lady in American history.
A graduate of Wellesley College and Yale Law School, Clinton spent years working as a lawyer, specializing in child services and welfare. She met [[Bill Clinton]] when both were students at Yale Law School and married him in 1975. By the time her husband ran for Governor of Arkansas, she was already well known as a lawyer and politician in her own right and had come to national attention as the first student ever to give the commencement address at renowned Wellesley College, her alma mater, and as the first-ever female partner at Arkansas' prestigious Rose Law Firm.
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Her tenure as First Lady, however, was only the beginning for Clinton - she became the first First Lady to hold political office in her own right when she took her oath as Senator (D-NY) in early 2001 - just months before the devastating attacks on the World Trade Center. Obviously, as New York's junior Senator, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 she was instrumental in shaping America's response to the attacks. Later on during her time in the Senate she campaigned further for health care as well as speaking up for rural areas such as upstate New York and the areas around Albany and Syracuse.
She won again by a significant margin in 2006, but left the Senate<ref>and was replaced by Kirsten Gillibrand, D-NY</ref> to engage in the closest primary election in American history - the 2008 Presidential race on the Democratic ticket. Up against [[Barack Obama]], she won over 18 million votes around the country and was the first serious female candidate for the Presidency in history (Michele Bachmann, in the 2012 Presidential race on the Republican ticket, was the second). She fought the campaign out right up to the Democratic National Convention and spoke in favor of her former rival as its keynote speaker on its second night. Since [[Defeat Means Friendship]], she joined Obama's cabinet as Secretary of State (becoming the first First Lady to serve on the Cabinet... are we seeing a running theme here?) and has used her many foreign contacts from her days as First Lady to assist in restoring America's image around the globe. She has also achieved the commendable feat of a 70% approval rating at a time when the [[Barack Obama|President]]'s rating was somewhere in the 50s. She
Although several different biographies of her have been written, she has also written her own autobiography, ''Living History''.
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* [[Happily Married]]: She is still married to -- and officially still very much in love with -- [[Bill Clinton]]. Although her autobiography ''Living History'' chronicles her struggle to forgive him for the 1998 Lewinsky scandal, she concludes that despite his betrayal, she loves him, has always loved him, and cannot imagine a life without him. Outside observations however, note the truth of this claim is very questionable.
* [[Hair Trigger Temper]]: Secret Service memorie ''Crisis of Character'' was filled with stories of Hillary turning on her secret service agents for everything.
* [[Incurable Cough of Death]]: Alleged, substantiated by her publicly known health problems, of her coughing fits during the 2016 election.
* [[Loophole Abuse]]: A point of contention during Hillary's Senate campaign: she never actually lived in New York until she decided to run for election as their senator, and there was no rule against her moving there for that purpose and running. (The incumbent who held the seat before her was retiring so it was an open field).
* [[Love At First Sight]]: On Bill's part, apparently. When she walked over and introduced herself, he forgot his own name for a few seconds. With Bill's record of extramarital affairs, many alleged non-consensual, this apparently did not last long.
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* [[Power Hair]]: Her changing hairstyles were a bizarre obsession with many Americans. Eventually she settled on her signature style. She's since let it go because her daughter asked her to for her wedding.
* [[Sand in My Eyes]]: During the famous ''Situation Room'' [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Obama_and_Biden_await_updates_on_bin_Laden.jpg photo,] Hillary has her hand over her mouth, and looked very stressed or worried. She says that she has a spring allergy and was suppressing a cough.
* [[Single-Issue Wonk]]: For a while, she was most famous for her advocacy of
* [[Disease Bleach|Stress Bleach]]: Her hair is grayer now than it was when she took her oath as Secretary of State, and she has been looking increasingly more haggard as she deals with a rather delicate international situation. This is not surprising, as on the international stage she is only marginally less important than the Joint Chiefs and the President himself.
* [[The Password Is Always Swordfish]]: After illegal private email server was compromised the investigation revealed the password was blank because she didn't want to bother with one.
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