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}}</ref> Ms. Acheson, a lawyer and lesbian lobbyist,<ref name="wcaddr">

}}</ref> Ms. Acheson, a lawyer and lesbian lobbyist,<ref name="wcaddr">

{{cite web

{{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

|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

|publisher=National Gay and Lesbian Task Force

|date=19 December 2006

|date=December 19, 2006

|accessdate=30 June 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.

|accessdate=30 June 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====

====Saul Alinsky====

[[File:Hillary letter1.png|right|200px|thumb|Letter by Hillary Rodham dated 1971, sent to community organizer and leftist radical 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.</ref>.  She also embraced a book, ''Reveille for Radicals''<ref>http://www.historyofsocialwork.org/1946_Alinsky/1946%20-%20Saul%20Alinsky%20-%20Reveille%20for%20Radicals.pdf</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.   

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>http://www.historyofsocialwork.org/1946_Alinsky/1946%20-%20Saul%20Alinsky%20-%20Reveille%20for%20Radicals.pdf</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:

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