Reply #22: Everything has been quid pro quo?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton
>>Rodham then entered Yale Law School...During her second year, she worked at the Yale Child Study Center, learning about new research on early childhood brain development and working as a research assistant on the seminal work, Beyond the Best Interests of the Child (1973).

She also took on cases of child abuse at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and volunteered at New Haven Legal Services to provide free advice for the poor.<37> In the summer of 1970

In the summer of 1970, she was awarded a grant to work at Marian Wright Edelman's Washington Research Project, where she was assigned to Senator Walter Mondale's Subcommittee on Migratory Labor, researching migrant workers' problems in housing, sanitation, health and education;

The following summer, Rodham and Clinton campaigned in Texas for unsuccessful 1972 Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern

She began a year of post-graduate study on children and medicine at the Yale Child Study Center.<51> Her first scholarly article, "Children Under the Law", was published in the Harvard Educational Review in late 1973.<52> Discussing the new children's rights movement, it stated that "child citizens" were "powerless individuals"<53> and argued that children should not be considered equally incompetent from birth to attaining legal age, but rather courts should presume competence except when there is evidence otherwise, on a case-by-case basis.<54> The article became frequently cited

During her post-graduate study, Rodham served as staff attorney for Edelman's newly founded Children's Defense Fund in Cambridge, Massachusetts,<56> and as a consultant to the Carnegie Council on Children.<57> During 1974 she was a member of the impeachment inquiry staff in Washington, D.C., advising the House Committee on the Judiciary during the Watergate scandal.<58><59> Under the guidance of Chief Counsel John Doar and senior member Bernard Nussbaum,<38> Rodham helped research procedures of impeachment and the historical grounds and standards for impeachment.<59> The committee's work culminated in the resignation of President Richard Nixon in August 1974.<59>

Clinton appointed her chair of the Rural Health Advisory Committee the same year,<86> where she successfully obtained federal funds to expand medical facilities in Arkansas' poorest areas without affecting doctors' fees.<<