2016 Postmortem
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(99,724 posts)-Rodham began a year of postgraduate study on children and medicine at the Yale Child Study Center.Her first scholarly article, "Children Under the Law", was published in the Harvard Educational Review in late 1973
-In 1974 she was a member of the impeachment inquiry staff in Washington, D.C
-In 1977, Rodham cofounded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, a state-level alliance with the Children's Defense Fund. Later that year, President Jimmy Carter (for whom Rodham had been the 1976 campaign director of field operations in Indiana) appointed her to the board of directors of the Legal Services Corporation.
-Following her husband's November 1978 election as Governor of Arkansas, Rodham became First Lady of Arkansas in January 1979, her title for twelve years (19791981, 19831992). Clinton appointed her chair of the Rural Health Advisory Committee the same year,where she secured federal funds to expand medical facilities in Arkansas's poorest areas without affecting doctors' fees.
-From 1982 to 1988, Clinton was on the board of directors, sometimes as chair, of the New World Foundation, which funded a variety of New Left interest groups. From 1987 to 1991, she was the first chair of the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession
-Clinton served on the boards of the Arkansas Children's Hospital Legal Services (19881992)
-In January 1993, Bill appointed Hillary to head the Task Force on National Health Care Reform, hoping to replicate the success she had in leading the effort for Arkansas education reform.
- Along with Senators Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch, she was a force behind the passage of the State Children's Health Insurance Program in 1997, a federal effort that provided state support for children whose parents could not provide them with health coverage, and conducted outreach efforts on behalf of enrolling children in the program once it became law.
-She promoted nationwide immunization against childhood illnesses and encouraged older women to seek a mammogram to detect breast cancer, with coverage provided by Medicare. She successfully sought to increase research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma at the National Institutes of Health.
- Together with Attorney General Janet Reno, Clinton helped create the Office on Violence Against Women at the Department of Justice.
-In 1997, she initiated and shepherded the Adoption and Safe Families Act, which she regarded as her greatest accomplishment as First Lady.
-In 1999, she was instrumental in the passage of the Foster Care Independence Act, which doubled federal monies for teenagers aging out of foster care.
-As First Lady, Clinton hosted numerous White House conferences, including ones on Child Care (1997),on Early Childhood Development and Learning (1997), and on Children and Adolescents (2000) She also hosted the first-ever White House Conference on Teenagers (2000)[164] and the first-ever White House Conference on Philanthropy (1999).
-She served on five Senate committees: Committee on Budget (20012002),[221] Committee on Armed Services (20032009),Committee on Environment and Public Works (20012009),Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (20012009)and Special Committee on Aging.[223] She was also a member of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (20012009)
_Clinton spent her initial days as Secretary of State telephoning dozens of world leaders and indicating that U.S. foreign policy would change direction: "We have a lot of damage to repair." She advocated an expanded role in global economic issues for the State Department and cited the need for an increased U.S. diplomatic presence, especially in Iraq where the Defense Department had conducted diplomatic missions.