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Apr 14, 2015 · 11 Things Hillary
Clinton Has Accomplished That
Have Nothing to Do With Bill. ... In all, she visited a record 112 countries over four years as
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She has spent parts of three decades in the public eye and more than a dozen years as a public servant. Opponents say Clinton is part of a dynasty — which, by the strict definition, she is not — but even if she has clearly shared in former President Clinton's political success, that is hardly the measure of her considerable personal achievements.
She was one of 27 women who graduated from Yale Law School in 1973, out of a class of 235.
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spent the next year doing postgrad work at the Yale baby Study Center, before heading back to Washington, D.C., where she had spent a summer on Capitol Hill working for Sen. Walter Mondale (D-Minn.), to join a select group of attorneys charged with deciding whether to impeach President Richard Nixon over the Watergate scandal.
She was the lone female counsel on the congressional team investigating Nixon's role in an attempted burglary at the Democratic National Committee's offices and the subsequent cover-up.
She cofounded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families advocacy group.
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joined the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas, then helped create the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families organization, which is still up and running today. Clinton helped author its original mission, which, according to the group's
website, calls for it to serve as an "independent ******* to provide information and education to parents and citizens about our state's policies toward children and families."
She worked with Ted Kennedy to expand the Children's Health Insurance Program. The late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D.-Mass) credited Clinton, then the first lady, with applying the necessary pressure to get her husband's White House to support the creation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program, or S-CHIP.
She set the stage for Obamacare by pushing health care reform in the '90s and during the 2008 campaign.
Though the 1993 plan often referred to as "
Hillarycare" turned into a political mess for Bill Clinton's White House, it did set into motion a chain of events that led to the writing and passage of President Obama's
Affordable Care Act. In an ironic twist, Senate Republicans responded to the Clintons' initial plan with one of their own, one that
Politifact says looked "strikingly similar" to what we now call Obamacare.
Additionally, it was Clinton who, during her 2008 debates with Obama, insisted that an individual mandate would be necessary to fund a health care overhaul. Though Obama
denied it then, it became an important and controversial part of his signature domestic policy achievement.
She set into motion the first American talks with Iran since the 1979 revolution.
Clinton also managed to do a few things during all that time on the move. Most notably, she dispatched a young aide named Jake Sullivan on a mission many Americans believed impossible — to begin what the
Associated Press describes as "secret talks with Iran that led to the start of the international negotiations over the country's nuclear ambitions." The jury's still out even as those initial efforts have now yielded the framework for a potentially historic deal. But if the sides can come to a formal, multilateral agreement by the June 30 deadline, this might go down as Clinton's most remarkable achievement, whether she wins the presidency or not.
Fought for children and families for 40 years and counting.
After law school, Hillary could have gone to work for a prestigious law firm, but took a job at the Children’s Defense Fund. She worked with teenagers incarcerated in adult prisons in South Carolina and families with disabled children in Massachusetts. It sparked a lifelong passion for helping children live up to their potential.
Hillary Clinton has supported and donated to the following charities
Causes supported
Abuse,
AIDS & HIV,
Animals,
Bullying,
Children,
Civil Rights,
Conservation,
Creative Arts,
Depression and Suicide,
Diabetes,
Disaster Relief,
Economic/Business Support,
Education,
Environment,
Family/Parent Support,
Gender Equality,
Health,
Homelessness,
Human Rights,
Hunger,
LGBT Support,
Literacy,
Miscellaneous,
Oceans,
Peace,
Poverty,
*******/Sexual Abuse,
Slavery & Human Trafficking,
Water,
Women
What Bill and Hillary Clinton’s Controversial Foundation Actually Does
“It is impossible to figure out where the Clinton Foundation ends and the State Department begins,” Republican nominee Donald Trump
said at a rally. Yet his foundation, currently disbanded for using the money for personal use. And charges currently being filed
It has several separate entities through which it deploys its health programs, including the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). Established as part of the Foundation in 2005, CGI essentially acts as a launching pad for programs by bringing together a variety of stakeholders, including NGOs, executives, entrepreneurs, politicians, and others, who then commit to various ambitious projects. CGI doesn’t actually implement those projects itself—rather, it says it serves as a “catalyst for action.” For instance, in 2015, as a participant in CGI’s events, the ******* and maternal health group Embrace Innovations pledged to bring its innovative Embrace ******* warmer (which doesn’t require a fixed electricity source) to 100,000 babies in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
Since 2005, according to CGI, it has spawned initiatives that:
Raised $313 million for R&D into new vaccines and medicines;
Helped provide better maternal and baby survival care to more than 110 million people, and;
Provided treatment for more than 36 million people with tropical diseases.
Private firms are also in the mix. Biotech giant
Gilead (GILD) and the NAACP joined forces to recruit religious leaders in the African American community to help fight HIV/AIDS, which disproportionately affects blacks in the U.S. Medical tech company
Becton Dickinson(BD), which ranked among the 50 companies in
Fortune‘s Change the World list this year, has committed to dramatically cutting the price of CD4 immune cell tests for HIV-positive people across 55 countries.
And in 2015, the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) and a host of other partners pledged to build up a world-class cancer diagnostic and treatment system in sub-Saharan Africa and Haiti, including boosting telemedicine and cloud-based electronic health records systems. The project is currently ongoing.
The Foundation says that another one of its arms, a collaboration with the American Heart Association (AHA) called the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, has helped provide access to healthier meals across more than 31,000 American schools and boosted physical education, the availability of nutritious meals, and extracurricular exercise in poor communities with high obesity rates.
But the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), which is an independent entity of the Clinton Foundation, may have had the most wide-ranging impact on global public health to date. It has helped negotiate HIV/AIDS therapy price cuts as high as 90%, ensuring access to these treatments for more than 11.5 million people across more than 70 countries, the Foundation says.
As for the Foundation’s specific claims about the number of people that it has reached through its programs? Those are a bit harder to verify. For instance, the price of HIV/AIDS ******* in Africa has, indeed, dropped significantly since CHAI was launched in 2002, and the World Health Organization (WHO) points out that CHAI and a consortium of other partners
helped make sure there was consistent access to these medications.
The watchdog groups that oversee foundations like the Clintons’ charity don’t necessarily have the resources to audit every individual program they run. But the available data indicates that the Clinton Foundation is a top-tier institution in the philanthropic world, according to CharityWatch president Daniel Borochoff, who also says the foreign fundraising criticisms made about the organization could be applied to any number of international charities.