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Hillary Clinton's already accomplished a lot in her lifetime, but she's really looking forward to her most important role yet: Grandmother!
In the former Secretary of State's book Hard Choices (as excerpted by Vogue), Hillary gushes about how proud she is of daughter (and now mom-to-be) Chelsea Clinton. The 66-year-old politician is also the first to give credit to her own mother Dorothy Howell Rodham, who passed away in 2011, for instilling a sense of optimism and love in herself and Chelsea through the years.
Hilary's mother's childhood "was marked by trauma and abandonment," she writes. Despite being spurned by her own parents, though, Dorothy remained a positive and loving woman, ultimately passing that down to the generations to come.
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"When I got old enough to understand all this, I asked my mother how she survived abuse and abandonment without becoming embittered and emotionally stunted," Hillary writes. "How did she emerge from this lonely early life as such a loving and levelheaded woman? I'll never forget how she replied. 'At critical points in my life somebody showed me kindness.'"
Dorothy helped Chelsea "navigate the unique challenges of growing up in the public eye" and served as Hillary's sounding board at home during the 2008 Democratic primaries. "Even in her 90s, Mom never lost her commitment to social justice, which did so much to mold and inspire me when I was growing up," she writes. "I loved that she was able to do the same for Chelsea."
Hillary gushes about "how proud Mom was of [Chelsea]," and then shares the message the former first lady and first daughter got from her. "Mom measured her own life by how much she was able to help us and serve others. I knew if she was still with us, she would be urging us to do the same," she writes. "Never rest on your laurels. Never quit. Never stop working to make the world a better place. That's our unfinished business."
The world is ready! Hillary's memoir Hard Choices will be released June 10.
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Hillary Clinton Reflects on Becoming a Grandmother, Looks Back on Raising Chelsea
Vogue magazine has published an excerpt from Hillary Clintons upcoming memoir, Hard Choices, focusing on her mother. Opponents likely will look elsewhere for political targets.
Its Mothers Day, so not surprising that the arc of the personal narrative for 2016 presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton would be motherhood and her impending grandmotherhood.
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At least thats what Vogue magazine has done with what it describes as an exclusive excerpt from Mrs. Clintons new memoir,Hard Choices, to be released next month.
Her own mothers childhood was marked by trauma and abandonment, she writes, including apparent treatment that today likely would have brought intervention by social service agencies. It may help explain Clintons faith Methodism and the social gospel as well as her liberal outlook on governments role in healthcare, which she took on as first lady when her husband was president.
Even in her 90s, Mom never lost her commitment to social justice, which did so much to mold and inspire me when I was growing up, Clinton writes.
Dorothy Howell Rodham (who died in 2011 at age 92)left the not-so-tender care of abusive relatives when she was 14, working as a nanny and housekeeper for room and board plus $3 a week. Her life got better with help from kind adults, including school teachers a history of collective upbringing no doubt influencing Clintons earlier book It Takes a Village.
Will any of this make a difference if she chooses to run for the White House? Perhaps. Personal history did for Barack Obama a kid of mixed race raised by a single mother and loving grandparents as indeed it did for Bill Clinton, also raised by a single mother in less than silver-spoon circumstances, then acquiring an Ivy League education as did Obama.
But its what has transpired in more recent years that her opponents and most voters will be considering for the most part.
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Hillary Clinton: How will her roles as mother and grandmother play in 2016? (+video)
The section of Clinton's memoir, which was released on Mother's Day, discusses her relationship with her own mother, Dorothy Howell Rodham, and may offer a rationale for a 2016 presidential run.
Its a side we rarely see of former first lady, secretary of state, and possible 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
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Clinton is showing readers her softer side Hillary as daughter, mother, and soon, grandmother in Hard Choices, her forthcoming memoir set to hit shelves June 10 by Simon and Schuster.
On Mothers Day Sunday, Vogue published an exclusive excerpt from Clintons book, in which the former secretary of state movingly describes the impact her mother, Dorothy Howell Rodham, had on her life.
No one had a bigger influence on my life or did more to shape the person I became, Clinton writes in the excerpt, a tribute of sorts to her mother, who died in 2011.
Clinton says the tribute was inspired by daughter Chelseas pregnancy: As Chelsea expects her first child and prepares to be a mother, Clinton says she found herself thinking a lot about her own mother.
In the excerpt, Clinton writes that she often confided in her mother during the trying 2008 Democratic presidential primaries and particularly after her difficult loss to then-Sen. Barack Obama.
I'd come home from a long day at the Senate or the State Department, slide in next to her at the small table in our breakfast nook, and let everything just pour out," she writes of her mother, who lived with her in Washington through the 2000s.
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Is Hillary Clinton hinting at her future in memoir excerpt?
For Hillary Rodham Clinton, the last few months might be comparable to a spring cleaning: An airing of her political past before she sets the course for her much speculated-about future.
As the former secretary of state and first lady mulls a presidential campaign in 2016, reminders of the tumultuous periods of her career have re-emerged in recent weeks: her husband's affair in the White House with Monica Lewinsky, her ill-fated attempt to overhaul the health care system and the deadly 2012 attack at a diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya.
Bill Clinton said presidential campaigns always need to be about the future, but that gets complicated if Hillary Clinton runs again after losing out to Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination in 2008.
Republicans might press the argument that at a time when many Americans are unhappy with the nation's direction, she represents a bygone era marked by political soap operas.
Yet many Democrats say reminders of the 1990s remember the booming economy? could help Clinton, and that rehashing her past more than two years before the next presidential election could dispense with a variety of distractions.
If a Republican challenger or a Democratic primary opponent invoked Lewinsky, Whitewater, cattle futures or other retro story lines in 2016, Clinton's team could try to dismiss it all as old news.
"For the majority of people, this is an eye roll," contended Maria Cardona, a former Clinton campaign adviser.
Vanity Fair magazine published a first-person account this past week from Lewinsky in which she said Bill Clinton "took advantage" of her, but that their affair was consensual.
Lewinsky cited recently released papers from a longtime Hillary Clinton friend, Diane Blair, in which the former first lady called the once White House intern a "narcissistic loony toon." Lewinsky wrote that she found Hillary Clinton's "impulse to blame the Woman not only me, but herself, troubling."
When the magazine posted excerpts of Lewinsky's account on its website, Clinton was speaking at a mental health conference and was asked about the 1993 suicide of White House counsel Vince Foster.
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