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Line 75: − In 1969, she attended Yale law school, where she was one of only 27 women among 235 law students. 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. Her subsequent studies at Yale were concentrated on how the law affected children. At Yale in 1971, she met Bill Clinton, her future husband, also a law student at Yale. She briefly worked as a Congressional lawyer, although she was later fired around the time of the [[Watergate scandal]] 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.<ref>http://downtrend.com/robertgehl/while-on-watergate-committee-hillary-was-fired-for-lying-unethical-behavior</ref>+ − + − 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. − − ===Arkansas=== − 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. Jim and Susan 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.<ref>William J. Clinton (April 28, 1996). [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/arkansas/docs/clintondepo.html "Transcript of President Clinton's video deposition"]. Reprinted at "Once upon a time in Arkansas" (October 1997). ''Frontline'' (PBS website/WGBH).</ref> − − 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 nasty words.<ref>Oppenheimer, Jerry (2000). ''State of a union: Inside the complex marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton'' (New York, NY: HarperCollins) cites three witnesses to the incident.</ref> − − ===Legal Services Corporation=== − Hillary Clinton was appointed by President [[Jimmy Carter]] to head the controversial [[Public defender|Legal Services Corporation]] (LSC) in 1978 and remained on the Board until 1983. <ref>Boehm, Kenneth F. (February 28, 2002). [http://web.archive.org/web/20080617132548/http://www.nlpc.org/view.asp?action=viewArticle&aid=225 "Thwarting the will of Congress: How the Legal Services Corporation evaded, diluted, and ignored reform, testimony of Kenneth F. Boehm before the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, House Judiciary Committee, U. S. Congress"]. National Legal and Policy Center website. Retrieved from June 17, 2008 archive at Internet Archive.</ref> − 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]].<ref>Barone, Michael (July 8, 1999). [http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michael/barone070899.asp "Taking Hillary seriously"]. ''Jewish World Review'' website.</ref> − − Clinton failed the District of Columbia [[Bar Exam]] in the 1970s.<ref>Millican, Julie (June 1, 2007). [http://mediamatters.org/items/200706010006 "On Today, Bernstein omitted key fact in purported disclosure of Clinton's D.C. bar exam failure: It's not news"]. MediaMatters for America website/Research. Retrieved October 4, 2007. See [[MediaMatters]]</ref>
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==Early Career==
==Early Career==
:''Main article [[Hillary Clinton early life and career]]''
Hillary told classmates in college her ambition was to marry a Senator.
== 1992 Presidential campaign ==
== 1992 Presidential campaign ==