IT"S TRUE ! Hillary helped prepare impeachment proceedings against Nixon!

[billbuckhead]

Experience in Washington, D.C

Rodham's experiences at Yale helped to focus her areas of interest and commitment toward issues related to children, particularly poor and disadvantaged ones. She became acquainted with Marian Wright Edelman, a civil rights attorney who headed up the Washington Research Project, a non-profit group based in Washington, D.C., later to be known as the Children's Defense Fund. Spending a summer internship in Washington, D.C., Rodham was assigned by Edelman to Walter Mondale's Senate subcommittee, which was studying the plight of migrant families. In subsequent years at Yale she volunteered to work in the Yale Child Studies Center and the Yale-New Haven Hospital, assisted the New Haven Legal Assistance Association, and engaged in several other projects aimed at improving understanding of, and effecting improvements in, the legal system where children were concerned. An extra year of study at Yale prior to her graduation in 1973 further refined her expertise in child law issues.

After graduation Rodham moved to Washington and took a full-time position with the Children's Defense Fund. As staff attorney, she worked on juvenile justice problems, traveling the country comparing census data with school populations and becoming involved in litigations related to juvenile issues. In January 1974 she was chosen as one of 43 lawyers handpicked to work on the legal staff of the House Judiciary Committee, which was charged with preparing impeachment proceedings against President Richard Nixon resulting from the Watergate scandal. When Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974, and the legal staff disbanded, she accepted a teaching position at the University of Arkansas Law School. It was in Arkansas in 1975 that she married Bill Clinton, whom she had met while attending Yale.
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http://www.answers.com/topic/hillary-rodham-clinton

[ursi]

1. LOL! she's done alot in her 35 years of experience! Lots of historic moments!

[Captain_Nemo]

2. This is common knowledge. Why would anyone dispute common knowledge that is readily

available on the net?

[rodeodance]

5. Because there is selective amnesia related to much of her earlier experience.

[Captain_Nemo]

8. Tha tis amazing to me from progressives. Hillarys' record as a proud Dem and Liberal is strong.

[ArkySue]

3. Yes. eom

[ShortnFiery]

4. Yes, but Nixon at least resigned and saved our beloved country from turmoil and off-focus

But no, Bill Clinton clung-on. If he would have handed the reigns to Gore, he would probably be President TODAY!

Does anyone else wonder if we could have prevented 9/11 under President Gore?

No, this "cult of personality" that HRC is all women is not working for me. :shrug:

[Tom Rinaldo]

6. But that was only 33 years ago, not 35 years

I wish Hillary would stop lieing about how long she has been active in politics and public service. And the nerve of her to count that as experience when everyone knows that Nixon was forced to resign before he actually got impeached!

[Recursion]

7. It's true! Hillary canvassed for Nixon in 1960 in Chicago!

And was President of the Wellesely College Republicans (not too very long before she worked on Nixon's impeachment)

[Captain_Nemo]

9. She was a Goldwater Republican (very different from a Reagan Republican - the religion.)

She is very outspoken about that.

[ShortnFiery]

13. LOL Goldwater was not as famous, but just as much as a bat-shit-nuts freak as Reagan.

:crazy:

[Recursion]

15. In your guts you know he's nuts

Wasn't that an unofficial LBJ bumper sticker in '64?

[ShortnFiery]

16. Yes, and it's no surprise that "a former Goldwater Girl" would USE race-baiting

to stack the political odds in her favor.

Here's what Martin Luther King Junior thought of her *hero.*

http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/publications/autobiography/chp_23.htm

It was both unfortunate and disastrous that the Republican Party nominated Barry Goldwater as its candidate for President of the United States. In foreign policy Mr. Goldwater advocated a narrow nationalism, a crippling isolationism, and a trigger-happy attitude that could plunge the whole world into the dark abyss of annihilation. On social and economic issues, Mr. Goldwater represented an unrealistic conservatism that was totally out of touch with the realities of the twentieth century. The issue of poverty compelled the attention of all citizens of our country. Senator Goldwater had neither the concern nor the comprehension necessary to grapple with this problem of poverty in the fashion that the historical moment dictated. On the urgent issue of civil rights, Senator Goldwater represented a philosophy that was morally indefensible and socially suicidal. While not himself a racist, Mr. Goldwater articulated a philosophy which gave aid and comfort to the racist. His candidacy and philosophy would serve as an umbrella under which extremists of all stripes would stand. In the light of these facts and because of my love for America, I had no alternative but to urge every Negro and white person of goodwill to vote against Mr. Goldwater and to withdraw support from any Republican candidate that did not publicly disassociate himself from Senator Goldwater and his philosophy.

While I had followed a policy of not endorsing political candidates, I felt that the prospect of Senator Goldwater being President of the United States so threatened the health, morality, and survival of our nation, that I could not in good conscience fail to take a stand against what he represented.

[Captain_Nemo]

20. Painting another as a racist quickly is something liberals do to assuage their white guilt

Read and learn

Couric: “Well, you were a Goldwater girl…”

Couric: “Well, you were a Goldwater girl…”

Clinton: “That’s right. ”

Couric: “…all the way down to the cowgirl outfit. ”

Clinton: “That’s right. I was a Goldwater girl. ”

Couric: “And you were elected president of the Young Republicans. But then found yourself leaning in another direction. I guess, as a result of your participation in the mock election debate. ”

Clinton: “That’s right. Well, in the 1964 election, I, certainly, was a Goldwater girl. That was, you know, my father’s candidate. That’s what I believed. And I had a very smart senior high school government teacher who took me aside and said, ‘I want you to play the role of Lyndon Johnson in the mock election debate.’ And he went to about the only girl who considered herself a Democrat in our school and said, ‘And I want you to play the role of Senator Goldwater.’

I was really upset at first because I was such a Goldwater fan. But it forced to me to have to look at and rethink that which would not have otherwise come my way. So, that by the time I got to college I really had to start thinking about what I believed, you know, not my father’s or my mother’s or my teacher’s or anyone else’s beliefs. And as a result, I concluded that I was more independent than I had originally thought I was. And I began to look more closely at political ideas and evolved my own convictions and values.


© 2008 MSNBC Interactive

[Captain_Nemo]

22. Goldwater on Religion in politics from 2005

April 25, 2005

Barry Goldwater on Religion and Politics

"However, on religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders into following their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both. I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in 'A,' 'B,' 'C,' and 'D.' Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of 'conservatism.'"

Barry Goldwater
(1909-1998)
US Senator (R-Arizona)
Republican Nominee for US President in l964, often called the Founder of modern Conservatism

http://www.mwblog.com/journal/archives/2005/04/barry_goldwater.php

[Iceburg]

24. Interesting piece of history. Thanks /nt

[Captain_Nemo]

25. Here's more you might like:

http://www.liberalslikechrist.org/about/goldwater.html

The five-term U.S. senator from Arizona was equally unimpressed with TV preacher Pat Robertson. When Robertson sought the GOP nomination for president in 1988, Goldwater wasn't about to say amen. "I believe in separation of church and state," observed Goldwater. "Now, he doesn't believe that . . . I just don't think he should be running."
A few years later he told The Advocate, "I don't have any respect for the Religious Right. There is no place in this country for practicing religion in politics. That goes for Falwell, Robertson and all the rest of these political preachers. They are a detriment to the country."

[Tom Rinaldo]

10. Yup she was out there talking to her neighbors at age 13

Disgraceful.

And I wonder where Clinton found the time to be a field organizer for George McGovern's Presidential campaign in 1972 between her one and only College year as a rapidly becoming progressive Republican and her later work on Nixon's impeachment. It was all such a very short period of time.

Heck, 1960 seems like just yesterday even now, right?

[robbedvoter]

27. Yeah, how come the 60s suddenly matter again? I thought it was prehistoric

[Tom Rinaldo]

29. It's relevent when Goldwater or JFK is mentioned

Haven't you been paying attention?

[billbuckhead]

14. It was a different time and Republicans were somewhat different back then

During that era there was an Illinois Republican who turned out to be arguably as important to passing Civil Rights legislation as MLK or LBJ and his name was Everett Dirksen. Before the evil "Southern Strategy", Republicans were ESSENTIAL to passing Civil Rights laws.

BTW, I bet some former Bush supporters are trying to get Chimpy impeached as we speak. It's speaks well that Hillary converted from Republicanism. Some of it was that the Republican party left her and many others as it became the party of warmongering, corruption and bigot baiting.

[LulaMay]

11. She sure did! Hence: EXPERIENCE & Understanding

[William769]

12. Thats just another damn lie, stop it!

:sarcasm:

[calteacherguy]

17. She was on a staff of 43 lawyers.

How is that going to help her lead the country? I notice you also included something about a summer internship and her traveling the country taking a census. O.K., I don't disparage her that. Good for her.

[Bread and Circus]

30. Exactly, basically much of her 35 years of experience is the

resume of a professional which sound fairly important when you read them at first glance. But when you really try to read what amounts to her legal curriculum vitae in terms of leadership and executive experience, there isn't much there.

I can understand she's running on her gender, I get that. I understand who important it is for women to break barriers.

However, her running on her experience is just a hoax.

She's never ran anything from an executive standpoint except maybe her campaign, which has been rife with a lack of good leadership and accountability.

I think she's going to win the nomination for 3 reasons:

1.) She is the entrenched establishment candidate and there's a lot of sheep that will just go on that ground.
2.) She is female and women will make an effort to put her in office (it doesn't hurt that a majority of the electorate is female).
3.) Apparently latinos/hispanics/mexican americans aren't too fond of blacks, at least in Nevada.

So basically she is running on cronyism, sexism, and racism.

I know that statement is not popular but that's what's getting her the votes. The truth hurts.

[eridani]

18. So why doesn't she want to impeach Bush and Cheney, who are 100x worse? n/t

[Captain_Nemo]

23. That's up to the House, not the senate.

[eridani]

28. No rule that Senators can't be in favor of it though, no? nt/t

[midnight]

19. Too bad she doesn't use all her experience right now to help

impeach another sitting criminal.

[mtnsnake]

21. The Goddess of Peace is the staunch Liberal and Democratic Crusader that gives repukes nightmares!

Glad to recommend!

[AntiFascist]

26. and probably put her in good favor with Bush Senior...

so that she could later become part of the Bush Family Empire.