035 Hillary Clinton

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00:00Women who change the world.

00:30Women who change the world.

00:32Voting is the most precious right of every citizen, and we have a moral obligation to

00:36ensure the integrity of our voting process.

00:39Hillary Clinton.

00:40Hillary Diane Clinton was born Hillary Diane Rodham on October 26, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois.

00:47She was raised in Park Ridge, Illinois, a picturesque suburb located 15 miles northwest

00:52of downtown Chicago.

00:54Hillary Rodham was the eldest daughter of Hugh Rodham, a prosperous fabric store owner, and

00:59Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham.

01:01She has two younger brothers.

01:03She graduated from Maine South High School in 1965, being a national merit finalist.

01:08Both her parents wanted her to have an independent career, not limited by gender biasness.

01:13She was inspired to work in public service after hearing a speech in Chicago by the Reverend

01:18Martin Luther King Jr., and became a Democrat in 1968.

01:22She enrolled at the Wellesley College in 1965, majoring in political science.

01:27In her college years, she was active in student politics, and was elected as the president

01:32of the Wellesley Young Republicans.

01:33Clinton worked at various jobs during her summers as a college student.

01:37In 1971, she first came to Washington, D.C. to work on U.S. Senator Walter Mondale's subcommittee

01:43on migrant workers.

01:44In the summer of 1972, she worked in the western states for the campaign of Democratic presidential

01:49nominee George McGovern.

01:51In the spring of 1974, Rodham became a member of the presidential impeachment inquiry staff,

01:57advising the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives during the Watergate scandal.

02:02She contested for the U.S. Senate seat from New York, eventually winning the same by a huge

02:07margin, and was sworn in on January 3, 2001.

02:11With this, she became the first wife of a president to seek and win national office, and the first

02:16woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate from New York, she easily won re-election in November

02:212006.

02:22In 2007, she hinted about her intention of contesting the presidential elections of 2008, thus becoming

02:29the first woman to be nominated by a major party.

02:32Though she lost the elections to Barack Obama, she was nevertheless appointed as the Secretary

02:37of State.

02:38As the Secretary of State, she continued to raise her voice for women's rights and human

02:42rights.

02:43Furthermore, she prominently advocated U.S. military intervention in Libya, and was at

02:47the forefront of U.S. response to Arab Springs.

02:50She was one of the most traveled secretaries of state.

02:53She relinquished the position on February 1, 2003.

02:57Hillary Rodham married Bill Clinton on October 11, 1975, at their home in Fayetteville.

03:03Before he proposed marriage, Clinton had secretly purchased a small house that she had remarked

03:08that she liked.

03:09When he proposed marriage to her, and she accepted, he revealed that they own the house.

03:14Their daughter, Chelsea Victoria, was born on February 27, 1980.

03:192016 Presidential Campaign

03:22In April 2015, Clinton formally announced her candidacy for the presidency in the 2016 election.

03:29She faced a strong challenge from Democratic Socialist Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, but

03:34emerged victorious to be formally nominated at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in

03:39July 2016.

03:42Pitted against business tycoon Donald Trump of the Republican Party for the presidential

03:46chair, she held a significant lead in national polls over Trump throughout most of 2016.

03:52During her campaigns, she based her economic philosophy on inclusive capitalism and supported

03:58the U.S. Export-Import Bank.

04:00She also called for a U.S. constitutional amendment that would result in overturning the 2010 Citizens

04:06United decision.

04:08She supported the right to same-sex marriage and equal pay for equal work.

04:12She focused on family issues in her campaigns and was strongly in favor of universal preschool

04:17and the Affordable Care Act.

04:19With various controversies surrounding her presidential opponent Donald Trump, it seemed for a while that

04:24Hillary Clinton might win the presidential election, however, it was not to be, and on

04:29November 8, 2016, she lost the presidential election to Trump.

04:33She has been the proud recipient of numerous awards and medals for her outstanding contributions

04:38as a politician and in the field of law.

04:40Furthermore, she was reckoned in every role that she took up.

04:44She has also been conferred with several honorary degrees from universities across the globe.

04:54Women who changed the world.

04:58Women who changed the world.

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