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Line 37: − 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. 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 [[Barry Goldwater|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 [[Solid South|Southern Democratic]] [[segregation]]ists opposing the historic [[Voting Rights Act|voting rights act of 1964]] inspired by King."<ref>Novak, Robert D. (March 12, 2007). [http://townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/2007/03/12/hillary,_king_and_goldwater "Hillary, King and Goldwater"]. Townhall.com website/Columnists. See [[Townhall.com]].</ref> − − As a tenth-grader, she heard the Rev. [[Martin Luther King]] speak in person, and years later she remarked in a speech "As a young girl I had the great privilege of hearing [[Martin Luther King|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."<ref>Sweet, Lynn (March 6, 2007). [http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2007/03/clintons_selma_speech_text.html "Clinton's Selma speech. Text as delivered"]. ''Chicago Sun-Times'' website/Lynn Sweet Blog.</ref> In the eleventh grade, she was class vice-president, and she was in the top 5% of her class when she graduated in 1965. − − ===College=== − Hillary Rodham then entered Wellesley College, an elite woman's college near Boston, and seemingly a Republican activist. During the summer of 1968, she participated in Wellesley's Washington Internship Program where she worked as an intern in the office of [[Melvin Laird]], then a congressman from Wisconsin, and attended the Republican convention in Miami as a [[Nelson Rockefeller]] supporter; Rockefeller would eventually lose the nomination to [[Richard Nixon]]. She was the commencement speaker at her graduation from Wellesley in 1969, during which she argued forcefully against the war in Vietnam and said, "And the challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible." In her speech, she also acknowledged the influence of her roomate and friend Eleanor D. Acheson in helping Hillary become the first student in Wellesley College history to deliver its commencement address.<ref name="WesleyHillary">{{Cite web − |last=Clinton − |first=Hillary − |title="Wellesley College 1969 student commencement speech" − |url=http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Commencement/1969/053169hillary.html − |publisher=Wellesley College website − |date=May 31, 1969 |accessdate=June 30, 2011 − }}</ref> Ms. Acheson, a lawyer and lesbian lobbyist,<ref name="wcaddr"> − {{cite web − |title="Changes under way in Task Force public policy & government affairs department" − |url=http://www.thetaskforce.org/Update/2006/34_06_1219/index.htm − |publisher=National Gay and Lesbian Task Force − |date=December 19, 2006 − |accessdate=June 30, 2011}}</ref>—the granddaughter of President [[Harry Truman|Harry Truman’s]] secretary of state [[Dean Acheson]]—is credited for having introduced the young Hillary to political circles. − − ====Saul Alinsky==== − [[File:Hillary letter1.png|right|200px|thumb|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<ref>Cosgrove, Ben (February 15, 2014). [http://time.com/3502935/life-with-hillary-portraits-of-a-wellesley-grad-1969/ "LIFE with Hillary: Portraits of a Wellesley grad, 1969, photograph 15"]. ''Time'' magazine website/Life/Photography.</ref>. She also embraced a book, ''Reveille for Radicals''<ref>Alinsky, Saul (1946). [http://www.historyofsocialwork.org/1946_Alinsky/1946%20-%20Saul%20Alinsky%20-%20Reveille%20for%20Radicals.pdf ''Reveille for Radicals''] (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).</ref>, 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''<ref>Alinsky, Saul (1971). [https://archive.org/details/RulesForRadicals ''Rules for Radicals''] (New York: Random House). Archived at Internet Archive.</ref> outlined twelve basic rules<ref>Ibid, [http://www.bestofbeck.com/wp/activism/saul-alinskys-12-rules-for-radicals "12 rules for radicals" (excerpt)]. Reprinted at Best of Beck website/Activism.</ref> 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...."''<ref>Ibid., pp. 10-11.</ref> − − In her 1969 thesis entitled "There Is Only The Fight"<ref>Clinton, Hillary (1969). [https://nukegingrich.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/hillaryclintonthesis.pdf "There is only the fight" (Political science B.A. senior honors thesis)] (Wellesley MA: Wellesley College). Reprinted at Nuke's N2l's. Copyrighted material, for fair educational use only.</ref> 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.''" <ref>Ibid, p. 6, 74.</ref> − − 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<ref>Noonan, Peggy (June 23, 2005). [http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122487008765067079 "Eine Kleine Biographie"]. ''The Wall Street Journal'' website.</ref>. 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.<ref>Multiple references: − *Poe, Richard (January 13, 2008). [http://rense.com/general80/fon.htm "Hillary, Obama and the cult of Alinsky"]. Rense.com website. − *Chait, Jonathan (September 22, 2014). [http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/09/saul-alinsky-secretly-controls-hillary-too.html "Saul Alinsky secretly controls Hillary Clinton too"]. ''NYMag'' website/Daily intelligencer/The national interest.</ref>
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