Mrs. Clinton billed 60 hours over a year and a half on the case, which included at least a dozen meetings with one Seth Ward, an individual who facilitated illegal straw purchases.
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There would be a few other firsts in the family that night as well: Bill Clinton would be the first man married to a US president.
Many viewers took to Twitter to question whether the former President “is ok”, after a similar scare occurred earlier this year during an appearance in Iowa in January. It will be his 10th time addressing Democratic national conventions.
Elizabeth Maurer, director of programs at the National Women’s History Museum, said Clinton’s accomplishment is a historical milestone but getting more women in elected office begins with outreach. Clinton’s career has tracked closely with progress women have made in a number of areas over the past 40 years.
Among those letting their inner child take over were former president Bill Clinton, who could be seen tossing and kicking balloons to celebrate his wife’s nomination and empowering speech.
But selfishly, if Bill Clinton does end up being first gentleman, let’s hope he embraces the role and starts to have fun with fashion.
“We will not build a wall-instead, we will build an economy where everyone who wants a good job can get one…”
“And to all of your supporters here and around the country: I want you to know, I’ve heard you”. Because I want to break a ceiling. In all, the speech centers on what Democrats have been saying throughout this convention, which is that America’s best days are ahead, don’t be pessimistic like the Republicans, and that we’re stronger together.
Both men are working with LGBT and Latino communities in Florida to help get out the vote for Mrs Clinton, and say in their communities, they’re not seeing an “enthusiasm gap”. “And that’s exactly what former presidents do”.
Walter-Cadien said that, as an African-American woman whose parents fought for their right to vote, Clinton’s actions speak volumes to her. Bill and Hillary will never escape his affairs, of course, but speaking around them-as if they are still a closely guarded secret-drags us back to a time when Matt Drudge had the power to spark a national moral hysteria, and the Republicans had the Clintons practically lined up at the gallows.
Any one of those would make a decent template for a first spouse’s focus.
“With respect to my own husband, I am probably still going to pick the flowers and the china for state dinners and stuff like that, but I will certainly turn to him, as prior presidents have, for special missions for advice”, Hillary Clinton said in the ABC News Democratic debate in December.
Throughout this campaign, the media has talked about an “enthusiasm gap” for Mrs Clinton – the idea that those voting for her only do so grudgingly.
Clinton has previously spoken about a “little tremor” he dealt with in his hand and said at the time that it was a condition you “sometimes get with aging”. “She walked the whole length of the library and said, ‘Look, if you’re going to keep staring me, and now I’m staring back”. “Especially in places like coal country and inner cities and other parts of our country that have really been left out”.
It has been more than 14 years just from one Hillary scandal with a wholly implausible explanation (her amazingly lucrative cattle trades that were first reported in 1994) to another (her private server as secretary of state that was first reported in 2015).
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Bill Clinton has suggested “first laddie”.
