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In the spring of 2000, the media learned of the married mayor's mistress, then a revelation he was being handled for prostate most cancers, and his estranged spouse's announcement she would stay supportive of him via the sickness. This was followed by his announcement he was separating from his spouse, and her disclosure that he had an earlier mistress. Hillary Clinton first met Nancy Reagan within the White House, during a 1982 governor's conference state dinner in 1982 and on the next annual occasions. It was only one 12 months into Clinton's tenure as First Lady that former president Reagan was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and the former First Lady kept her attention targeted on his care and made solely uncommon appearances outside of California.

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By the time she graduated, Hillary had turn out to be a prominent scholar leader—she was elected by her peers to be the first-ever scholar speaker at Wellesley’s commencement ceremony. She was abandoned by her dad and mom as a young child and shipped off to live with relations who didn’t want to raise her. By age 14, Dorothy knew the only means she’d get by was to help herself, and she or he started working as a housekeeper and babysitter while she went to highschool.

Hillary participated actively in her Methodist church, excelled in the city's first-rate public faculties, and demonstrated an early interest in politics. Hillary Clinton was a U.S. senator from 2001 to 2009 and secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. She was the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate in 2016 and first girl when her husband, Bill Clinton, was president from 1993 to 2001. As the nation’s first lady, Mrs. Clinton chaired the Task Force on National Health Care Reform. She led the struggle to move the Children’s Health Insurance Program; worked to extend funding for research and treatment of most cancers, AIDS, osteoporosis, and juvenile diabetes; chaired Save America’s Treasures; and supported gun control efforts. She wrote two best-selling books and gained a Grammy award for her recording of It Takes a Village and Other Lessons Children Teach Us.