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Subscribe to RSSPerhaps no person in America better reflects the possibility and peril of a life lived in the public eye than Hillary Rodham Clinton.
From lashing out at a “vast right-wing conspiracy” when news of her husband’s infidelity emerged to finding her “own voice” after a teary answer to a voter’s question on the campaign trail, Clinton has never failed to confound her critics and inspire her fans.
As Clinton’s final day at the State Department closes the latest chapter of her public life, here is a look at 15 key moments -- from the 1960s through today.
First big speech: Hillary Diane Rodham gives the commencement address at Wellesley College in Massachusetts in May 1969. It establishes her not just as respected but as outspoken: She criticizes a previous speaker, Massachusetts Sen. Edward Brooke, and suggests that he is out of touch with the action her generation craves. Weeks later, she is featured in Life magazine as a shining example of the Class of ’69.
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Meeting her match: At Yale Law School, Hillary Rodham meets Bill Clinton. She would write later that the attraction was immediate, and that they shared an intellectual bond that never broke: "Bill Clinton and I started a conversation in the spring of 1971," she wrote in the memoir, "and more than 30 years later, we're still talking."
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‘If that's not enough ... don’t vote for him': Bill and Hillary Clinton go on “60 Minutes” in January 1992, in an interview that airs immediately after the Super Bowl, to deny that he had had a 12-year affair with an Arkansas state employee, Gennifer Flowers. In the interview, Hillary Clinton says: “You know, I'm not sitting here — some little woman standin’ by my man like Tammy Wynette. I'm sitting here because I love him, and I respect him, and I honor what he's been through and what we've been through together. And you know, if that's not enough for people, then heck, don't vote for him.” The couple are pictured with “60 Minutes” executive producer Don Hewitt.
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Health-care advocate: As first lady, Hillary Clinton leads a presidential effort in 1993 and 1994 to reform health care, a policy role unprecedented for a first lady. The plan ultimately aims for universal coverage by requiring employers to provide health care. But some Republicans, and notably the insurance industry, attack the plan as hopelessly bogged down in bureaucracy, and it dies in Congress. The defeat is a huge setback for a woman who aspired to be a non-traditional first lady but who opponents feared had designs on being a co-president.
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Making her mark: In September 1995, Clinton goes to a U.N. conference in Beijing and delivers a forceful critique of abuse of women in China, using language that would be considered strong for any American leader but particularly out of the ordinary for a first lady. She declares: “If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights once and for all.”
Conspiracy theory: In January 1998, just after allegations surface of a presidential affair with a White House intern named Monica Lewinsky, Hillary Clinton goes on TODAY and dismisses the matter as a "feeding frenzy." She stresses that the president has denied the suggestions of an affair. She goes on to tell Matt Lauer: “The great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president.”
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Between the two of them: The Clintons, with daughter Chelsea famously clutching their hands, leave the White House for a two-week vacation on Martha’s Vineyard in August 1998. A day earlier, the president had admitted on national television that he had had an improper relationship with former White House interview Monica Lewinsky. Hillary Clinton later writes of this period in her memoir: “Although I was heartbroken and disappointed with Bill, my long hours alone made me admit to myself that I loved him. What I still didn't know was whether our marriage could or should last.”
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Engaging debate: Clinton makes a point during a September 2000 debate with Rep. Rick Lazio for a Senate seat from New York. During the same debate, Lazio produces a pledge against “soft money” political contributions and walks over to Clinton’s lectern, encouraging her to “sign it right now.” Some Clinton supporters later say the move was bullying. Clinton wins with 55 percent of the vote, and in 2006 trounces another Republican opponent with 67 percent. She generally wins praise as a hard worker in the Senate, and after re-election quickly turns her attention to a bid for the presidency.
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Finding her voice: Clinton exults after defeating Sen. Barack Obama in the New Hampshire primary in January 2008, resuscitating her campaign after a bruising defeat in Iowa days earlier. Clinton, asked by a New Hampshire voter how she deals with the stress of campaigning, had choked up and said: “You know, I have so many opportunities from this country, I just don't want to see us fall backwards.” In her victory speech, Clinton says she “found my own voice.”
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The laugh: Nearing the end of her primary campaign, Clinton enjoys a drink and some laughs with reporters on her campaign plane after a stop in South Dakota in May 2008. Her laugh — with a boisterous crescendo that borders on a cackle — becomes so famous (or infamous, depending on your perspective) that it inspires a parody by Amy Poehler on “Saturday Night Live.”
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End of a long battle: Clinton waves to supporters at the National Building Museum in Washington in June 2008 after endorsing Obama for president — the end of their historic prizefight of a Democratic primary campaign. In a reference to her popular-vote count in the Democratic race, she says: “Although we weren’t able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it’s got about 18 million cracks in it. And the light is shining through like never before, filling us all with the hope and the sure knowledge that the path will be a little easier next time.”
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Globetrotter: Clinton, as secretary of state for Obama's first term, visits the historic Badshahi Mosque in Lahore, Pakistan, in October 2009. She would say later that it was “hard to believe” that no one in the Pakistani government knew where al-Qaida leaders were hiding. By the end of her tenure as secretary, Clinton had visited 112 countries, logged 956,000 miles and spent the equivalent of 87 days traveling, according to an official State Department count.
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Finding Osama bin Laden: Clinton, with President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and members of the president’s national security team, waits out a tense moment just off the White House Situation Room during the May 2011 raid that ultimately killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. Asked later why she had her hand over her mouth, Clinton would say: “Those were 38 of the most intense minutes. I have no idea what any of us were looking at that particular millisecond when the picture was taken. I am somewhat sheepishly concerned that it was my preventing one of my early spring allergic coughs. So it may have no great meaning whatsoever.”
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Hillz, the meme: Her popularity as secretary of state spills over to the Internet when, in October 2011, she is photographed checking a mobile device and wearing sunglasses aboard a military C-17 plane bound from Malta for Libya. The shot inspires a Tumblr site, Texts from Hillary Clinton, in which the "secretary" sends snarky texts to the likes of Ryan Gosling, Mark Zuckerberg ... and Mitt Romney.
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‘Prevent it from ever happening again’: Clinton testifies to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee earlier this month about the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans. Clinton is pressed by Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., about why the administration had not learned quickly that the attack was a planned assault, not the spontaneous result of a protest. She answers: “With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided that they’d they go kill some Americans? What difference, at this point, does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, senator.”
RELATED: Clinton steps down, but a reluctant style legacy endures
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Full slideshow: Hillary Clinton's life has taken her from first lady to senator to secretary of state.
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Hilary Klinton is a fermented vaginal blood fart.
WOW! What an intelligent post.
Wah, wah, wah...
Poor Vern, he KNOWS Hillary will be our next president, and he just can't stand it!
Hillary 2016!
Hillary is a screaching old owl who even her husband can't stand. Dems did not want her 2008 and will not want her in 2016.
I would think that the moment her husband, "Slick Willy" Klinton, brought honor to the United States of America and the office of the president, by jamming a cigar up the vagina of someone else's daughter in the White House, while his wife slept in the next room, would certainly count as a "defining moment".
Are you jealous that you are a sexual loser?
LMAO...
You NAILED him!
Hillary 2016!
Jo-An,please, please respond to THIS!!
She’s lied before,Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
HILLARY'S WATERGATE SCANDAL
By Jerry Zeifman
In December 1974, as general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee, I made a personal evaluation of Hillary Rodham (now Mrs. Clinton), a member of the staff we had gathered for our impeachment inquiry on President Richard Nixon. I decided that I could not recommend her for any future position of public or private trust.
Why? Hillary's main duty on our staff has been described by as "establishing the legal procedures to be followed in the course of the inquiry and impeachment." A number of the procedures she recommended were ethically flawed. And I also concluded that she had violated House and committee rules by disclosing confidential information to unauthorized persons.
Hillary had conferred personally with me regarding procedural rules. I advised her that Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino, House Speaker Carl Albert, Majority Leader Tip O'Neill and I had previously agreed not to advocate anything contrary to the rules already adopted and published for that Congress. I quoted Mr. O'Neill's statement that: "To try to change the rules now would be politically divisive. It would be like
trying to change the traditional rules of baseball before a World Series."
Hillary assured me that she had not drafted and would not advocate any such rules changes. I soon learned that she had lied: She had already drafted changes, and continued to advocate them.In one written legal memorandum, she advocated denying President Nixon representation by counsel. This, though in our then-most-recent prior impeachment proceeding, the committee had afforded the right to counsel
to Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. I also informed Hillary that the Douglas impeachment
files were available for public inspection in our offices. I later learned that the Douglas files were then removed from our general files without my permission, transferred to the offices of the impeachment inquiry staff, and
were no longer accessible to the public.
The young Ms. Rodham had other bad advice about procedures, arguing that the Judiciary Committee should neither 1) hold any hearings with or take the depositions of any live witnesses, nor 2) conduct any
original investigation of Watergate, bribery, tax evasion, or any other possible impeachable offense of President Nixon - but to rely instead on prior investigations conducted by other committees and agencies.
The committee rejected Ms. Rodham's recommendations: It agreed to allow President Nixon to be represented by counsel and to hold hearings with live witnesses. Hillary then advocated that the official rules of the House be amended to deny members of the committee the right to question witnesses. This unfair recommendation was rejected by the full House. (The committee also vetoed her suggestion that it leave the drafting
of the articles of impeachment to her and her fellow special staffers.)
If I were her I'd tell you all to take a powder and I'd retire from public life.
I truly hope she takes your advise and retires. We have enough to worry about with out her in office again....
Good luck with that WaySouth, good luck!
Hillary 2016!
Jo-An,please, please respond to THIS!!
She’s lied before,Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
HILLARY'S WATERGATE SCANDAL
By Jerry Zeifman
In December 1974, as general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee, I made a personal evaluation of Hillary Rodham (now Mrs. Clinton), a member of the staff we had gathered for our impeachment inquiry on President Richard Nixon. I decided that I could not recommend her for any future position of public or private trust.
Why? Hillary's main duty on our staff has been described by as "establishing the legal procedures to be followed in the course of the inquiry and impeachment." A number of the procedures she recommended were ethically flawed. And I also concluded that she had violated House and committee rules by disclosing confidential information to unauthorized persons.
Hillary had conferred personally with me regarding procedural rules. I advised her that Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino, House Speaker Carl Albert, Majority Leader Tip O'Neill and I had previously agreed not to advocate anything contrary to the rules already adopted and published for that Congress. I quoted Mr. O'Neill's statement that: "To try to change the rules now would be politically divisive. It would be like
trying to change the traditional rules of baseball before a World Series."
Hillary assured me that she had not drafted and would not advocate any such rules changes. I soon learned that she had lied: She had already drafted changes, and continued to advocate them.In one written legal memorandum, she advocated denying President Nixon representation by counsel. This, though in our then-most-recent prior impeachment proceeding, the committee had afforded the right to counsel
to Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. I also informed Hillary that the Douglas impeachment
files were available for public inspection in our offices. I later learned that the Douglas files were then removed from our general files without my permission, transferred to the offices of the impeachment inquiry staff, and
were no longer accessible to the public.
The young Ms. Rodham had other bad advice about procedures, arguing that the Judiciary Committee should neither 1) hold any hearings with or take the depositions of any live witnesses, nor 2) conduct any
original investigation of Watergate, bribery, tax evasion, or any other possible impeachable offense of President Nixon - but to rely instead on prior investigations conducted by other committees and agencies.
The committee rejected Ms. Rodham's recommendations: It agreed to allow President Nixon to be represented by counsel and to hold hearings with live witnesses. Hillary then advocated that the official rules of the House be amended to deny members of the committee the right to question witnesses. This unfair recommendation was rejected by the full House. (The committee also vetoed her suggestion that it leave the drafting
of the articles of impeachment to her and her fellow special staffers.)
The middle east is on the brink of exploding because of her as Sec. of state and president Obama's inept foreign policies, how dare the media or the President call her a great Sec. of State, it demeans the position.
I didn't realize her and the President had complete control of everyone in the Middle East.
point taken but their head in the sand policies have emboldened terrorist in the region.
Hillary did a great job, and she has great popularity, and RESPECT, throughout the world...SO...get over it!
Hillary 2016!
Jo-An,please, please respond to THIS!!
She’s lied before,Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
HILLARY'S WATERGATE SCANDAL
By Jerry Zeifman
In December 1974, as general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee, I made a personal evaluation of Hillary Rodham (now Mrs. Clinton), a member of the staff we had gathered for our impeachment inquiry on President Richard Nixon. I decided that I could not recommend her for any future position of public or private trust.
Why? Hillary's main duty on our staff has been described by as "establishing the legal procedures to be followed in the course of the inquiry and impeachment." A number of the procedures she recommended were ethically flawed. And I also concluded that she had violated House and committee rules by disclosing confidential information to unauthorized persons.
Hillary had conferred personally with me regarding procedural rules. I advised her that Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino, House Speaker Carl Albert, Majority Leader Tip O'Neill and I had previously agreed not to advocate anything contrary to the rules already adopted and published for that Congress. I quoted Mr. O'Neill's statement that: "To try to change the rules now would be politically divisive. It would be like
trying to change the traditional rules of baseball before a World Series."
Hillary assured me that she had not drafted and would not advocate any such rules changes. I soon learned that she had lied: She had already drafted changes, and continued to advocate them.In one written legal memorandum, she advocated denying President Nixon representation by counsel. This, though in our then-most-recent prior impeachment proceeding, the committee had afforded the right to counsel
to Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. I also informed Hillary that the Douglas impeachment
files were available for public inspection in our offices. I later learned that the Douglas files were then removed from our general files without my permission, transferred to the offices of the impeachment inquiry staff, and
were no longer accessible to the public.
The young Ms. Rodham had other bad advice about procedures, arguing that the Judiciary Committee should neither 1) hold any hearings with or take the depositions of any live witnesses, nor 2) conduct any
original investigation of Watergate, bribery, tax evasion, or any other possible impeachable offense of President Nixon - but to rely instead on prior investigations conducted by other committees and agencies.
The committee rejected Ms. Rodham's recommendations: It agreed to allow President Nixon to be represented by counsel and to hold hearings with live witnesses. Hillary then advocated that the official rules of the House be amended to deny members of the committee the right to question witnesses. This unfair recommendation was rejected by the full House. (The committee also vetoed her suggestion that it leave the drafting
of the articles of impeachment to her and her fellow special staffers.)
If you truly have a gripe with her based not on her genetalia, I'm fine with that. It's the American way. However, people with their misogynistic comments lose all creditability IMO. I find it funny, that no matter how many commentators I see that absolutely hate Obama, they never stoop to calling him a racial epitaph. But, when it comes to Clinton, the sexist comments just come in droves.
Think about it...yes, you are that man...the sexist one who discriminates against women. And, in extreme instances, uses violence against a female to reenforce male hegemony.
My vote can be hers, but still has to earn it...the old fashioned way...with hard work, dedication, and intelligence.
She seems to be dedicated, yes.
Lets see..her legacy.....made $100,000 off a $1,000 investment in cattle futures with advise from a "friend", the Rose Law Firm scandal, a senator from <what was that state>, hated Obama which ran against him then loves him after he wins, Secretary of State and racked up over 1,000,000 frequent flier miles and accomplished nothing. Please Hillary, take your goober husband and go back to your estate in New York and live happily ever after.
Chris...I could not have said it better....Amen Brother...Amen.......
Now if she were a Republican, you would say that say that she was a shrewd businesswomen! It certainly didn't bother Republicans that Romney destroyed businesses and peoples lived to make million off their misfortune.!
Ain't that the truth!
Hillary 2016!
@Jo-An, NO I'd call her what she is LIAR, LIAR
Jo-An,please, please respond to THIS!!
She’s lied before,Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
HILLARY'S WATERGATE SCANDAL
By Jerry Zeifman
In December 1974, as general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee, I made a personal evaluation of Hillary Rodham (now Mrs. Clinton), a member of the staff we had gathered for our impeachment inquiry on President Richard Nixon. I decided that I could not recommend her for any future position of public or private trust.
Why? Hillary's main duty on our staff has been described by as "establishing the legal procedures to be followed in the course of the inquiry and impeachment." A number of the procedures she recommended were ethically flawed. And I also concluded that she had violated House and committee rules by disclosing confidential information to unauthorized persons.
Hillary had conferred personally with me regarding procedural rules. I advised her that Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino, House Speaker Carl Albert, Majority Leader Tip O'Neill and I had previously agreed not to advocate anything contrary to the rules already adopted and published for that Congress. I quoted Mr. O'Neill's statement that: "To try to change the rules now would be politically divisive. It would be like
trying to change the traditional rules of baseball before a World Series."
Hillary assured me that she had not drafted and would not advocate any such rules changes. I soon learned that she had lied: She had already drafted changes, and continued to advocate them.In one written legal memorandum, she advocated denying President Nixon representation by counsel. This, though in our then-most-recent prior impeachment proceeding, the committee had afforded the right to counsel
to Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. I also informed Hillary that the Douglas impeachment
files were available for public inspection in our offices. I later learned that the Douglas files were then removed from our general files without my permission, transferred to the offices of the impeachment inquiry staff, and
were no longer accessible to the public.
The young Ms. Rodham had other bad advice about procedures, arguing that the Judiciary Committee should neither 1) hold any hearings with or take the depositions of any live witnesses, nor 2) conduct any
original investigation of Watergate, bribery, tax evasion, or any other possible impeachable offense of President Nixon - but to rely instead on prior investigations conducted by other committees and agencies.
The committee rejected Ms. Rodham's recommendations: It agreed to allow President Nixon to be represented by counsel and to hold hearings with live witnesses. Hillary then advocated that the official rules of the House be amended to deny members of the committee the right to question witnesses. This unfair recommendation was rejected by the full House. (The committee also vetoed her suggestion that it leave the drafting
of the articles of impeachment to her and her fellow special staffers.)
I can see it coming now. The teapublicans are talking about Bill again and they will keep doing it. They're again bringing up Monica and Whitewater, Vince Foster -- all the garbage they tried in the 90s that only made Bill and Hillary more popular. Keep this up teapublicans and you will have another President Clinton to go crazy over for another 8 years. Remember --- doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is known as INSANITY.
No...the liberal way is to speak lies over and over...and on MSNBC they become truths. We were kind of hoping for telling the truth over and over and it becoming TRUTH on MSNBC. I lost respect for her when she stayed with Bill after Monica, but after Benghazi ...well, American's are dead and ...face it...she lied. The Ambassador was sending cables to HILLARY, and Hillary claimed that the Ambassador was a dear friend...This "dear friend" of hers was in the hottest State Department zone on the freaking planet, and she has the nerve to tell us she never saw the cables...B freaking S. Charlie, you are a low informed, low IQ voter. Not rocket science either.
"Charlie, you are a low informed, low IQ voter."
No -- I don't get my news from Rush the Junkie and Fox Entertainment. I suspect you do.I suspect you were one of those people who were totally shocked by Romney's drubbing because the junkie and Fox Entertainment told you he was going to win in a landslide and you swallowed their propaganda hook, line and sinker.
He didn't deny the IQ part, though.
No...it is really pretty clear....I could get my information from any news outlet to come to the same conclusion that...The Ambassador was sending cables to HILLARY, and Hillary claimed that the Ambassador was a dear friend...This "dear friend" of hers was in the hottest State Department zone on the freaking planet, and she has the nerve to tell us she never saw the cables...B freaking S. Like I illustrated Charlie...this is not rocket science. Really...step away from the computer and just spend a few moments trying to think for yourself instead of letting Chris Matthews do your thinking for you. I was not here trying to bash you with Conservative Media, or bashing the President...I just stated some simple facts about the Benghazi incident. I drew my own conclusions. I am tired of ALL of our politicians standing before us and lying through their teeth, and the media on both sides spinning their crap. I tend to read the news on both sides and draw my own conclusions based on the facts as I see them as any independent thinker should. I do not see the point on what a Sean Hannity or Chris Matthews spews and tries to tell me HOW to think. What this country needs is more people who can think for themselves. Our economy IS in peril. I am ashamed at where our standing in the international community has dropped to under this Presidents entire administration. I am tired of politicians usurping and attacking the Constitution, there are ways to change it legally if that is what America wants. I am an American...not left...not right...just an American that can think for himself and dislikes where both parties are taking this country. The Clintons are career politicians, and I do not respect "career" politicians. I do not respect the Bushs', nor the Reids, nor the Kennedys or the Boehners or McConnells of this country. Lifetime politicians was not the vision of our founding fathers either.
Touche RelaxJay!
darn...I typed all that for nothing....and no charlie response...darn...matthews must have dropped a shiny object and off he went... I should have mentioned how much I love my guns...
Cry, boys, cry...
Hillary will be our NEXT president!
Hillary 2016!
Benghazi is Hillary's Chappaquiddick.
let's not forget about her time serving on the board of Wal-Mart, helping them become the titan of industry they are today
Hillary is the most viable candidate for the 2016 term than anyone else representing either party.
Hillary for President 2016!!!
She's a liar many times over!
She’s lied before,Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
HILLARY'S WATERGATE SCANDAL
By Jerry Zeifman
In December 1974, as general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee, I made a personal evaluation of Hillary Rodham (now Mrs. Clinton), a member of the staff we had gathered for our impeachment inquiry on President Richard Nixon. I decided that I could not recommend her for any future position of public or private trust.
Why? Hillary's main duty on our staff has been described by as "establishing the legal procedures to be followed in the course of the inquiry and impeachment." A number of the procedures she recommended were ethically flawed. And I also concluded that she had violated House and committee rules by disclosing confidential information to unauthorized persons.
Hillary had conferred personally with me regarding procedural rules. I advised her that Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino, House Speaker Carl Albert, Majority Leader Tip O'Neill and I had previously agreed not to advocate anything contrary to the rules already adopted and published for that Congress. I quoted Mr. O'Neill's statement that: "To try to change the rules now would be politically divisive. It would be like
trying to change the traditional rules of baseball before a World Series."
Hillary assured me that she had not drafted and would not advocate any such rules changes. I soon learned that she had lied: She had already drafted changes, and continued to advocate them.In one written legal memorandum, she advocated denying President Nixon representation by counsel. This, though in our then-most-recent prior impeachment proceeding, the committee had afforded the right to counsel
to Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. I also informed Hillary that the Douglas impeachment
files were available for public inspection in our offices. I later learned that the Douglas files were then removed from our general files without my permission, transferred to the offices of the impeachment inquiry staff, and
were no longer accessible to the public.
The young Ms. Rodham had other bad advice about procedures, arguing that the Judiciary Committee should neither 1) hold any hearings with or take the depositions of any live witnesses, nor 2) conduct any
original investigation of Watergate, bribery, tax evasion, or any other possible impeachable offense of President Nixon - but to rely instead on prior investigations conducted by other committees and agencies.
The committee rejected Ms. Rodham's recommendations: It agreed to allow President Nixon to be represented by counsel and to hold hearings with live witnesses. Hillary then advocated that the official rules of the House be amended to deny members of the committee the right to question witnesses. This unfair recommendation was rejected by the full House. (The committee also vetoed her suggestion that it leave the drafting
of the articles of impeachment to her and her fellow special staffers.)
God help our Democratic Party should Hillary ever retire from the Bullpen.
WHO would be our designated doormat then?
WHO would get the shaft every time somebody else comes along that we like better?
The REPUKES and TEA-CRAPPERS should BUT do not KNOW HOW, No matter what they do, TO BE LIKE HILLARY and what she represents. "OUR NATION AND ITS CITIZENS". By FAR NOT an EXTREMIST, But a LISTENER and DOER by Listening from and for the CITIZENS.
Great article about Hillary. I love it it when she FIGHTS BACK and gives the REPUKE SENATORS at the bengazi hearings their own smear right back at them. WHAT A COOL AND VERY SMART LADY.
We need to throw out the REPUKES and PUT in place MORE like HILLARY. An OPEN and HONEST PERSON !!!!!
One that shows RESOLVE. Not WASTE like the HOUSE.
Ah, What does it matter? A homosexual candidate will come along in 2016 and that will be all for Hillary, just like in 2008 with the black candidate.
She just a liar many times over the years!
She’s lied before,Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
HILLARY'S WATERGATE SCANDAL
By Jerry Zeifman
In December 1974, as general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee, I made a personal evaluation of Hillary Rodham (now Mrs. Clinton), a member of the staff we had gathered for our impeachment inquiry on President Richard Nixon. I decided that I could not recommend her for any future position of public or private trust.
Why? Hillary's main duty on our staff has been described by as "establishing the legal procedures to be followed in the course of the inquiry and impeachment." A number of the procedures she recommended were ethically flawed. And I also concluded that she had violated House and committee rules by disclosing confidential information to unauthorized persons.
Hillary had conferred personally with me regarding procedural rules. I advised her that Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino, House Speaker Carl Albert, Majority Leader Tip O'Neill and I had previously agreed not to advocate anything contrary to the rules already adopted and published for that Congress. I quoted Mr. O'Neill's statement that: "To try to change the rules now would be politically divisive. It would be like
trying to change the traditional rules of baseball before a World Series."
Hillary assured me that she had not drafted and would not advocate any such rules changes. I soon learned that she had lied: She had already drafted changes, and continued to advocate them.In one written legal memorandum, she advocated denying President Nixon representation by counsel. This, though in our then-most-recent prior impeachment proceeding, the committee had afforded the right to counsel
to Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. I also informed Hillary that the Douglas impeachment
files were available for public inspection in our offices. I later learned that the Douglas files were then removed from our general files without my permission, transferred to the offices of the impeachment inquiry staff, and
were no longer accessible to the public.
The young Ms. Rodham had other bad advice about procedures, arguing that the Judiciary Committee should neither 1) hold any hearings with or take the depositions of any live witnesses, nor 2) conduct any
original investigation of Watergate, bribery, tax evasion, or any other possible impeachable offense of President Nixon - but to rely instead on prior investigations conducted by other committees and agencies.
The committee rejected Ms. Rodham's recommendations: It agreed to allow President Nixon to be represented by counsel and to hold hearings with live witnesses. Hillary then advocated that the official rules of the House be amended to deny members of the committee the right to question witnesses. This unfair recommendation was rejected by the full House. (The committee also vetoed her suggestion that it leave the drafting
of the articles of impeachment to her and her fellow special staffers.)
Amy Poehler must play her in "Rodham" or I'm out.
Hillary really got Bin Laden, look at Obama up there in the picture in his GOLF shirt.
I thought it was strange he was sitting in the corner.
Well, just nobody forget how the Party stabbed Hillary in the back in 2008; that was her year, the year of the WOMAN, and what happened.
A clean and articulate black man showed up and poof.
Wow the super haters are up early this morning, how does it make you feel to be so nasty? If Mrs. Clinton is elected President you will have a total of 16 years to let the hate build up in you, 8 with President Obama and 8 with Clinton. Hate does very bad things to your health, you should think about it.
"Wow the super haters are up early this morning, how does it make you feel to be so nasty?"
Hey -- they are in reality the best friends she has. Look what they did for Bill in the 90s --- made him one of the most popular presidents of all times.
No, Ross Perot did that.
Hillary 2016!
Jo-An,please, please respond to THIS!!
She’s lied before,Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
HILLARY'S WATERGATE SCANDAL
By Jerry Zeifman
In December 1974, as general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee, I made a personal evaluation of Hillary Rodham (now Mrs. Clinton), a member of the staff we had gathered for our impeachment inquiry on President Richard Nixon. I decided that I could not recommend her for any future position of public or private trust.
Why? Hillary's main duty on our staff has been described by as "establishing the legal procedures to be followed in the course of the inquiry and impeachment." A number of the procedures she recommended were ethically flawed. And I also concluded that she had violated House and committee rules by disclosing confidential information to unauthorized persons.
Hillary had conferred personally with me regarding procedural rules. I advised her that Judiciary Committee Chairman Peter Rodino, House Speaker Carl Albert, Majority Leader Tip O'Neill and I had previously agreed not to advocate anything contrary to the rules already adopted and published for that Congress. I quoted Mr. O'Neill's statement that: "To try to change the rules now would be politically divisive. It would be like
trying to change the traditional rules of baseball before a World Series."
Hillary assured me that she had not drafted and would not advocate any such rules changes. I soon learned that she had lied: She had already drafted changes, and continued to advocate them.In one written legal memorandum, she advocated denying President Nixon representation by counsel. This, though in our then-most-recent prior impeachment proceeding, the committee had afforded the right to counsel
to Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. I also informed Hillary that the Douglas impeachment
files were available for public inspection in our offices. I later learned that the Douglas files were then removed from our general files without my permission, transferred to the offices of the impeachment inquiry staff, and
were no longer accessible to the public.
The young Ms. Rodham had other bad advice about procedures, arguing that the Judiciary Committee should neither 1) hold any hearings with or take the depositions of any live witnesses, nor 2) conduct any
original investigation of Watergate, bribery, tax evasion, or any other possible impeachable offense of President Nixon - but to rely instead on prior investigations conducted by other committees and agencies.
The committee rejected Ms. Rodham's recommendations: It agreed to allow President Nixon to be represented by counsel and to hold hearings with live witnesses. Hillary then advocated that the official rules of the House be amended to deny members of the committee the right to question witnesses. This unfair recommendation was rejected by the full House. (The committee also vetoed her suggestion that it leave the drafting
of the articles of impeachment to her and her fellow special staffers.)
Humpty Dumpty Hillary's "great" moments. Kissing Arafat's wife, Covering for her Degenerate husband, Banging her Head and LYING her Fat _ss Off over Benghazi. Go Away Hag and Stay Away.
That's right up there with Dubya swapping spit with the Saudi prince.
I love the pic that I assume was taken when they were at Yale. Far out, man. I think they both inhaled.
They left out a very defining moment. The moment when Monica slobbered and ruined her dress.
Possession is 9/10ths of the law. It was her do with as she chose at that point.
I wonder who the brain dead right will attempt to run against Madame President in 2016? My guess will be Gov. Christie. And that would truly be a shame after the way he helped Obama win his second term. Not that President Obama would not have won without him, but I appreciated his honesty and candor which disaster and crushing circumstances ie deaths, divorce etc has a tendency to bring out in humans.
And what a great President she shall be. First Lady, Senator, Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has been baptised by fire and will bring her multitude of skill and grace to the White House for a second time.
I don't know GOP? May by 2050 this country will be ready to forgive your party for stealing the election in 2000 and cursing us with Dubya. But then you followed by that joke of McCain Palin then you let Romney purchase the nomination who made it clear that he was going to help your party further rape the country. But I'm sure you would have thought of it as "LEGITIMATE RAPE"!
Why don't you tea-craps go post your dirt where someone where you dim wits would be accepted, like on FOX. Oh that's right FOX doesn't allow posting comments. That's because they don't want to know what you think, they only want to tell you what to think.
What dirt? You don't like to read truth?
Rweber-1968632
LMAO, so TRUE, and they can't see it at all...that is what is so entertaining, they are being led around by their noses, and have no clue.
Hillary 2016!
I TRULY hope this is the very last time I hear the name Clinton in regards to public service, and I again hope ALL Clintons crawl under the rock they came from! It will be years before the stain they have left can be removed and forgotten.
Hillary 2016!
CLINTON, that is CLINTON!
Get used to it!
What a BS story. Nothing mentioned of the land scams or any other crap she was tied to while good ol Bill was banging his way thru Arkansas. This lady makes crooked congressmen look like virgins if the saints.And I will say this time has not been kind to that woman that is for sure. EVery dirty deed she was active in is etched in her face.
Charlie, I voted for Clinton but much of his success came from him governing from the center. It also came from the Republicans holding his feet to the fire. But also remember all this prosperity was helped because the Clinton Government stayed out the way. (well as much as Democrats can)
But in the end the true Clinton lying sack of s&@# he is came out. The man disgraced himself, the office and his family. He should have resigned.
And Hillary through all this shame and disgust kept blaming it on the "right wing conspiracy". At first like many others I believed her. But in time the truth finely came out it was Bill all along who lied. (again)
Had Hillary had any respect for herself and not playing along with Bills lies she would have dumped him. But for her, that would have meant giving up to much power and fear of never getting it back.
To me Hillary is the typical politician/lawyer. I would not trust her as far I could throw her.
But unfortunately the leftest press has put her on this high pedestal and she just might be your next president.
But maybe, the left will discover another Obama and ditch her again LOL
The only dignified thing he ever did was reiterate the reality of Iraq's WMDs.