Hillary Clinton Early Life And Career

Hillary Diane Rodham was born October 26, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois to Hugh Rodham and Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham. Hugh was from a Pennsylvania family of coal miners, but decided on higher education and graduated from Penn State University before moving to Chicago and becoming prosperous as a merchant. He also voted Republican and was known as a martinet. He said that “Democrats are one step short of Communism.”^[1] Hillary grew up in the upscale Chicago suburb of Park Ridge with two younger brothers, Hugh Jr. (born 1950) and Anthony (born 1954). Hillary attended Maine East High School, where she was involved in many extracurricular activities; was active in the Methodist church, and worked for Republican campaigns as a Goldwater Girl.

In her memoirs Hillary Clinton described herself in 1964 as "an active Young Republican" and "a Goldwater girl, right down to my cowgirl outfit." Columnist Robert Novak observed, "As a politically attuned honor student, she must have known that Goldwater was one of only six Republican senators who joined Southern Democratic segregationists opposing the historic voting rights act of 1964 inspired by King."^[2]

As a tenth-grader, she claims to have heard the Rev. Martin Luther King speak in person, and in later years rewrote the narrative in front of Black audiences about her support for segregationists,"As a young girl I had the great privilege of hearing Dr. King speak in Chicago. The year was 1963....[Dr. King] called on us, he challenged us that evening to stay awake during the great revolution that the civil rights pioneers were waging on behalf of a more perfect union."^[3] In the eleventh grade, still a Republican, she was class vice-president, and in the top 5% of her class when she graduated in 1965.

Political metamorphoses[edit]

Hillary Rodham entered Wellesley College, an elite woman's college near Boston. Once again it is confusing to trace the timeline of Hillary's political metamorphoses. She claims to have campaigned for Democratic Sen. Eugene McCarthy in the spring of 1968, an anti-war candidate; but she attended the Republican convention in mid-summer supposedly as a Rockefeller supporter while at the same time working in the office of Congressman Melvin Laird of the House Armed Services Committee, who was to be Richard Nixon's first Defense Secretary.

As student body president, she gave a commencement address and disrespected the first African-American elected to the United States Senate since the American Civil War, Sen. Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, who spoke before her.^[4] In her speech, she thanked her lesbian roommate,^[5] Eleanor Dean (Eldie) Acheson.^[6] Acheson is the granddaughter of President Harry Truman's secretary of state Dean Acheson^[7] and is credited for having introduced Hillary to political circles, the gay community, and the party lifestyle.^[8] Acheson was rewarded as an Undersecretary in the Justice Department of Bill Clinton and served on a Task Force to select Judicial nominees. Among them was Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Acheson likewise is a major contributor to the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (LGBT).^[8][9]

Saul Alinsky[edit]

Letter by Hillary Rodham dated 1971, sent to community organizer and leftist radical Saul Alinsky.

By 1968 Rodham had abandoned her Republicanism in favor of liberalism, and in June 1969, she appeared in Life magazine, having written a statement advancing a cause of leftist politics and activism.^[10] She also embraced a book, Reveille for Radicals,^[11] a work originally written in 1946 by a former archaeologist and full-time communist, Saul Alinsky, who in his book taught how to organize a community to the point where the "have-nots" (the poor) take from the "haves" (the middle-classes and rich), and she admitted that she had read it many times before her first of several meetings with him.

In a letter written in 1971, Rodham had asked Alinsky when his new book, Rules For Radicals was going to be published:

"When is that new book coming out — or has it come and I somehow missed the fulfillment of Revelation? I have just had my one-thousandth conversation about Reveille [for Radicals] and need some new material to throw at people. You are being rediscovered again as the New Left-type politicos are finally beginning to think seriously about the hard work and mechanics of organizing. I seem to have survived law school, slightly bruised, with my belief in and zest for organizing intact."

Rules For Radicals^[12] outlined twelve basic rules^[13] for overthrowing a government, and Rodham read it voraciously. Alinsky's methods included "demonizing" and "ridiculing" the opposition, using the expertise of poor as a weapon, and using lies and innuendo to their fullest advantage. Alinsky wrote:

"A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From this he logically proceeds to the revolution to end capitalism, then into the third stage of reorganization into a new social order of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and finally the last stage—the political paradise of communism...An organizer working in and for an open society is in an ideological dilemma to begin with, he does not have a fixed truth—truth to him is relative and changing; everything to him is relative and changing.... To the extent that he is free from the shackles of dogma, he can respond to the realities of the widely different situations...."^[14]

In her 1969 thesis entitled "There Is Only The Fight"^[15] she praised Alinsky and his methods for community organizing:

"His are the words used in our schools and churches, by our parents and their friends, by our peers. The difference is that Alinsky really believes in them...Alinsky is regarded by many as the proponent of a dangerous socio/political philosophy. As such, he has been feared — just as Eugene Debs or Walt Whitman or Martin Luther King has been feared, because each embraced the most radical of political faiths — democracy." ^[16]

Alinsky died in 1972, a short time after Rules For Radicals was published. Later on, at the behest of the Clinton White House, Rodham's thesis would be hidden, obtainable to a select few, and it would be in 2005 that it would be uncovered, despite being hidden by the college at Clinton's request.^[17] The two things that became clear in the following years was the fact that Hillary Rodham Clinton was solidly on the left, using the Alinsky method of overthrowing the Constitutional system of the United States, as well as going to any length to conceal her radicalism—and the lies of others within the Democratic Party—from the public.^[18]

Radical activism[edit]

In 1969, she attended Yale law school, where she was one of 27 women among 235 law students. Hillary spent a considerable amount of time as a volunteer for the Black Panthers on trial for the torture, mutilation, and killing of a federal agent.^[19] Eight Black Panthers, including national chairman Bobby Seale, were brought to trial in New Haven, Connecticut on charges of the murder of Alex Rackley. They were defended by Charles Garry, the same attorney representing Jim Jones and whose political philosophy meshed well with the People's Temple of Jonestown Guyana.^[20] According to Pulitzer Prize winning author Carl Bernstein, Hillary attended the trial daily. James Farah reported she assisted Garry. She was a campus leader during the protests in support of the Panthers. The trial climaxed national awareness of the Panthers. In another ethical lapse Hillary pampered over her involvement in her memoir citing a distinction between "legitimate opposition and criminal behavior."^[21]

On May 7, 1970, she addressed the League of Women Voters in Washington, a sign of her growing prominence. Always active in campus politics, she ended up becoming something of a communications facilitator, as she had been at Wellesley, between potentially radical student elements and the college administration during the era of extreme student unrest in 1970. She was written up on hometown and New England newspapers, and was interviewed on Irv Kupcinet's nationally syndicated TV talk show from Chicago. That summer, she worked in Washington for Marian Wright Edelman's Washington Research Project, where she conducted research on migrant children's health and education difficulties, especially in the South.

Teams up with Bill Clinton[edit]

Hillary and Bill Clinton met in 1972 while studying law at Yale University. Inspired by Alabama Democrat Gov. George Wallace and his wife Gov. Lurleen Wallace, the two forged a pact to help each other's career - when one was termed-limited out, the other takes over.^[22][23][24] They worked as a team on George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign and then on Bill's first unsuccessful bid for the U.S House in 1974.

During one secret rendezvous in 1979, Kyle said then-Governor Clinton confided to her that he was desperate to have a baby for political reasons. Kyle initially thought Bill wanted to have a baby with her, until he clarified that he wanted to have one with Hillary - hinting that he was concerned about political rumors that Hillary was a lesbian.
'I said, "Why do you want to have a baby? You don't even have time, you're so busy",' said Kyle. 'He said [Hillary and I] have to have a baby so that we will look like a normal couple, and we need to take attention away from The Warden's "lifestyle".' ['The Warden' was Bill Clinton's nickname for Hillary].
'Now, he did not say Hillary is a lesbian,' she added. 'Billy didn't have to spell out what that meant… Everybody in Little Rock knew the same rumors about Hillary being a lesbian as they did about Billy being a lech.'

Kyle said she was 'shocked' by Hillary's unkempt appearance, poor hygiene and matronly clothes, and didn't believe it was the same girl Bill had moved in with.
'I picked Billy up at the airport [in 1974 to work in Bill's congressional campaign] and he had this dowdy-looking middle-aged woman with him…this woman was Hillary,' she said. 'Hillary, I thought was a Hillary impersonator. Because she looked so bad and she smelled so bad I just didn't believe this was Hillary. 'Seriously, I thought this was some kind of a joke Billy was playing on me.' Hillary's eyes, glared at her from behind 'coke-bottle-thick lenses with an air of real hostility. Her thick eyebrows melded together stretching across her forehead.
Finally the introduction: 'Dolly, this is Hillary. Hillary, Dolly.'
'I was stunned,' Kyle recalled, thinking it was 'some kind of a sick joke' - a woman in a hideous disguise. Kyle extended her hand but Hillary only glared and nodded. 'I couldn't imagine why Billy would haul such a person in the plane with him in public. She was wearing a misshapen, brown, dress-like thing that must have been intended to hide her lumpy body. The garment was long, but stopped too soon to hide her fat ankles and her thick calves covered with black hair,' Kyle said.

But was Hillary's smell that Kyle says she remembers most. 'In that moment I noticed that the woman emitted an overpowering odor of perspiration and greasy hair. I hoped that I wouldn't gag when she got in my car,' she said. 'The sandal-shod woman with lank, smelly hair stood off to the side and glared at everyone.'

In another incident from Bill Clinton's term as governor, Hillary Clinton was tasked with hosting an annual Easter egg hunt at the governor's mansion for special needs children. But, according to Kyle, Hillary allegedly became irritated by the slow pace of the event. 'Some of [the kids] were physically impaired some of them were mentally impaired. But [the governor's staff] hid the eggs in plain sight and made it easier for these kids to find these eggs,' said Kyle, whose close friend was involved in organizing the event. 'So during this hunt it was getting warm in Arkansas. Well, Hillary was getting tired of it, and the kids were moving slowly, so she goes stomping onto the veranda. She said 'When are they gonna get those f-ing retards out of here?' said Kyle. 'Thankfully, and blessedly, the children were oblivious to it. Their parents were appalled.'^[25][26]

Allegations of dishonesty, theft and unethical behavior[edit]

She briefly worked as a Congressional lawyer, although she was later fired around the time of the Watergate affair by her supervisor, Jerry Zeifman (himself a Democrat) for "lying, unethical behavior." Which included stealing the briefs for the Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas dealing with an impeachment proceeding in 1970 and writing in her brief that there was no precedent to impeachment proceedings requiring counsul.^[27]

She graduated from Yale Law School (JD 1973) a year later than necessary, having remained an extra year to be near Bill. As a staff attorney for the Children's Defense Fund, she specialized in children's advocacy law. She married Bill on October 11, 1975; daughter Chelsea was born in 1980.

Children's Defense Fund[edit]

Hillary Clinton never ceases plugging her first job out of law school with the Children's Defense Fund or how she served on the Board of Directors. But as First Lady she came under attack from this same organization due to her role in gutting "welfare as we know it."^[28] She still touts her advocacy of children despite the millions of children she threw out, homeless, starving in the streets.^[29]

The next job the self-described "defender of children" was to handle was the case of a 41-year-old man who raped a 12-year-old girl. The rapist, facing 30 years to life in prison, Hillary plea bargained down to time served - two months in county jail - by attacking the victim.

Hillary wrote of the young victim as:

In 2006 the victim, now an adult heard for the first time Hillary Clinton laughing about her victory in the case. The victim spoke out,

Mrs. Clinton knew the child rapist to be guilty, and joked about it. The prosecution had damning evidence, the bloody underwear of the pedophile rapist, which Mrs. Clinton was able to defeat the presentation of the evidence.^[32]

In 2016, Clinton mainstream surrogates, apologists, and sycophants spin the episode to prove how "tough minded," "dedicated", and "fair" she is.

In 2014 Hillary Clinton again lied about the case claiming she asked to be relieved.^[33]

Arkansas[edit]

As her husband built a political career in Arkansas as governor, she was a partner in the locally prestigious Rose Law Firm, 1976–1992. Nationally she continued her legal advocacy for children and chaired the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession, which played a pioneering role in raising awareness of issues like sexual harassment and equal pay.

During the 1970s and '80s, the Clintons invested in the Whitewater Development Corporation which later became the subject of a federal investigation, prosecutions and convictions. Susan and Jim McDougal, and then-Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker were convicted of multiple counts of financial fraud, even though President Clinton testified for four hours for the defense.^[34]

On the evening Bill Clinton lost his bid for a Congressional seat in 1974, Hillary is reported to have cursed out a Jewish aide using racial and ethnic slurs.^[35]

This advocate of women's rights first hired private investigator Ivan Duda in 1982 when Bill was trying to regain the Arkansas governorship. Hillary was not seeking evidence against Bill for a divorce; she wanted the names of Bill's girlfriends so that they could be approached, threatened, compromised, or blackmailed if they stood in her path to power. Her path to power, of coarse, was to piggyback on his. She told Duda, “I want you to get rid of all these b***hes he’s seeing…. I want you to give me the names and addresses and phone numbers, and we can get them under control." Duda came up with a list of 14 names.^[36][37][37]

Legal Services Corporation[edit]

Hillary Clinton was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to head the controversial Legal Services Corporation (LSC) in 1978 and remained on the Board until 1983.^[38] Under Hillary Clinton's leadership, the LSC began moving away from its legislated task of providing poor people with free lawyers and began an activist agenda to influence public policy through class action lawsuits. One case involved bringing lawsuits to force New York's Transit Authority to hire heroin addicts. The LSC also violated its own rules by organizing political campaigns against a state referendum and against Ronald Reagan.^[39]

Clinton failed the District of Columbia Bar Exam in the 1970s.^[40]

Political spying and civil rights violations[edit]

The Hill magazine reported Hillary Clinton may have been involved in civil rights violations by monitoring illegal wiretaps and domestic spying on political opponents during the 1992 camapaign.^[41] After the revelations came to light in a book entitled, Her Way^[42] by Don Van Natta Jr., an investigative reporter at the New York Times, and Jeff Gerth, who spent 30 years as an investigative reporter at the paper, a Republican official remarked,

Occultism[edit]

After the death of Vince Foster, whom Hillary was very close to, she is said to have fallen into a deep depression and reached out to author William Stayron who wrote about his own struggles with depression.^[43] In 1996 Bob Woodward of the Washington Post reported Hillary Clinton consulted psychic mediums to contact the spirit of the deceased former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt for advice.^[44] This was not unprecedented, Mary Todd Lincoln held seances in the White House attempting to contact her loved ones. Hillary in many ways identified with Eleanor Roosevelt.^[45]

Eleanor Roosevelt had been caught on surveillance "quite clearly having sexual intercoarse" with a younger man, Joe Lash.^[46] The story was leaked to the press.^[47] Eleanor arranged a sham marriage between Lash and a friend of hers', Gertrude Pratt, to deflect criticism and attention. Eleanor Roosevelt's bisexuality has become the focus of biographers and scholars.^[48]

Bill Clinton identified Hillary as a bisexual.^[49] When stories of Hillary's lesbianism abounded, Hillary held a press conference to deny the rumors.^[50] Not long after, Bill Clinton presided over an informal wedding ceremony between Hillary's longtime close associate and confidant, Huma Abedin, who had been working at Hillary's side since 1994, and Rep. Anthony Weiner.^[51] It was an odd relationship between the two; Weiner lived in New York and commuted to Washington when Congress was in session; Huma, like Hillary. spent the vast majority of time away from their spouse while Hillary and Huma travelled the globe in Hillary's role as Secretary of State.^[52][53]

Weiner was driven from Congress in a sexting scandal. Later it was revealed Weiner's personal computer contained more than a half million emails related to the Clinton Foundation and Hillary's email scandal. When the news broke, Hillary didn't separate herself from Huma by firing her, which Huma alone would be responsible for unauthorized State Department information being found on Anthony Weiner's personal computer. Like Nixon, she chose the path of loyalty to subordinates over making a clean break with people accused of lawbreaking, as Reagan had done when he fired Oliver North or John Kennedy when he fired Allen Dulles. If elected, the nation faced a constitutional crisis over her actions, failures, and negligence.

In addition, while Clinton publicly displays herself as calm and mature, and while she criticized Trump in the 2016 presidential election as being "unfit" for the presidency, she herself has serious emotional and temperamental problems, often throwing extreme temper tantrums, using profane language, and making the lives of those around her terrible.^[54][55]

See also[edit]

• Hillary Clinton First Lady
• Hillary Clinton Senate career
• Hillary Clinton Secretary of State
• Hillary Clinton Foreign Policy

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