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hide captionHillary Clinton's decision on whether to run for president in 2016 will ripple across the presidential candidate fields in both parties.

Hillary Clinton's decision on whether to run for president in 2016 will ripple across the presidential candidate fields in both parties.

If the jockeying before the 2016 presidential race is a game of political chess, the most powerful queen on the board would obviously be Hillary Clinton.

So much of what will happen in 2016 hinges on Clinton's decision on whether to run, which she has said she'll announce by the end of this year.

If the former secretary of state and New York senator enters the race, she reduces the space on the board for any competitors within her own party. That would be particularly true for the Democratic women mentioned as possibilities for national office.

Vice President Joe Biden or Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, both of whom have the presidential itch, could still decide to run with Clinton in the race. They haven't closed the door to a challenge, and might argue that a contested primary is a necessary endeavor, if only to give Democrats a choice.

What's more, says Lorena Chambers, a Democratic political consultant and principal of Chambers Lopez Strategies, told It's All Politics that someone like O'Malley might feel the need to challenge Clinton in the primaries in order to be considered for her veep spot.

It could come down to someone in O'Malley's position "thinking, 'Yes, there's no way potentially I could win the primaries and caucuses. But certainly I could show my strength and be able to prove to Secretary Clinton that I'm formidable and can really help on the ticket.' It would be a very cordial debate and back and forth. Everyone on the Democratic side would be as unified as they could be considering they were ostensibly running against each other in the primary."

The most prominent other Democratic female prospects not named Clinton, on the other hand, signed a private letter last year urging the former secretary of state to run. So Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota are on record encouraging the former first lady to get in the race. That doesn't preclude them from challenging Clinton, but if one of them turned around and ran, the move would risk being viewed as treachery.

In any case, they wouldn't find much running room: The shadow Clinton campaign, which has been unofficially underway since last year, is locking up fundraisers, donors and campaign operatives.

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Hillary Clinton's Presidential Chess Board

Hillary Rodham Clinton's upcoming book will be called "Hard Choices," a title that reflects how the potential 2016 presidential candidate may try to define her record as President Barack Obama's secretary of state while she considers another White House campaign.

Publisher Simon & Schuster said Friday the new book, to be released June 10, will offer Clinton's "inside account of the crises, choices and challenges" she faced as secretary of state and "how those experiences drive her view of the future."

"All of us face hard choices in our lives," Clinton writes at the start of the book, according to the publisher. "Life is about making these choices, and how we handle them shapes the people we become."

Clinton's State Department memoir will hit bookshelves as the former first lady and New York senator sits atop polls about hypothetical candidates as the leading Democratic contender should she seek the presidency. Since leaving the State Department, Clinton has traveled widely, giving speeches to industry groups, college students and others while joining the foundation led by her daughter, Chelsea Clinton, and her husband, former President Bill Clinton.

Clinton's potential candidacy has been eagerly anticipated by Democrats, who frequently ask Clinton about her intentions and encourage her to try to become the nation's first female president. A series of Democratic outside groups is already building support for a future campaign, and Republicans are actively critiquing her record.

Republicans have criticized Clinton's response to the killing of four Americans in the 2012 attacks on a diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, and questioned her handling of relations with Russia. In 2009, Clinton memorably gave Russia's top diplomat a red button labeled, "reset," to symbolize how U.S. relations had thawed, but the button was mistranslated into Russian. In the aftermath of Russia's bold annexation of Ukraine's strategic Crimean peninsula, Republicans have suggested it represented a naivet.

Simon & Schuster said on a website promoting the book that Clinton and Obama "had to decide how to repair fractured alliances, wind down two wars, and address a global financial crisis. They faced a rising competitor in China, growing threats from Iran and North Korea, and revolutions across the Middle East."

"Along the way, they grappled with some of the toughest dilemmas of US foreign policy, especially the decision to send Americans into harm's way, from Afghanistan to Libya to the hunt for Osama bin Laden," the publisher said.

The book will chronicle Clinton's travel to 112 countries and nearly 1 million miles as secretary of state and "offers her views on what it will take for the United States to compete and thrive in an interdependent world. She makes a passionate case for human rights and the full participation in society of women, youth and LGBT people."

Clinton will also "offer readers a master class in international relations, as does her analysis of how we can best use "smart power" to deliver security and prosperity in a rapidly changing world one in which America remains the indispensable nation."

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Title of New Hillary Clinton Book: 'Hard Choices'

NEW YORK, April 18 (UPI) -- Hillary Clinton's soon-to-be-published memoir of her time as U.S. secretary of state now has a title, Hard Choices, her publisher announced Friday.

Simon & Schuster added the title to its hillaryclintonmemoir.com website. The book is scheduled to hit the stores June 10, and the site encourages readers to advance order it through Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other outlets.

The publisher describes the memoir as "the story of the four extraordinary and historic years" Clinton spent in the cabinet of President Obama, who defeated her for the Democratic nomination in 2008.

All of us face hard choices in our lives, Simon & Schuster quotes, saying that is how Clinton starts her memoir. "Life is about making such choices. Our choices and how we handle them shape the people we become."

Chelsea Clinton announced Thursday afternoon at an appearance with her mother in New York that she and her husband, Marc Mezvinsky, are expecting a child in the fall. The news sparked speculation about how becoming a grandmother would affect Hillary Clinton's chances in the presidential race, criticism of the media for covering a woman politician's personal life more closely than those of men, and suggestions from some conservatives that Clinton put pressure on her daughter to provide her with a grandchild for the campaign trail.

Clinton is the author of It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us, published while her husband was president, and a 2003 memoir, Living History. As first lady, she also published a collection of children's letters to her family's pets.

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Apr 18, 2014 1:11pm

A young woman who tearfully and publicly confessed to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that she was an undocumented immigrant was praised by Clinton for being incredibly brave.

Actress America Ferrera moderated the event Thursday at the Lower East Side Girls Club in New York City, billed as the first in a series of the Clinton Foundations No Ceilings conversations aimed at bringing together women and girls from around the world to discuss female empowerment and growth.

Ferrera turned to the group of women in attendance for questions to ask the hosts, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton. Among the women who raised their hands, one in particular stood out.

You seem like you have something you want to say, Ferrera said, pointing at a young woman in the audience.

As she stood up, no one expected the life-changing statement she was about to make.

My name is Nova. Im 19-years-oldand I have a very different glass ceiling than some of the girls are exhibiting here, she said.

Nova paused, took a deep breath, and then revealed her secret.

For the first time publicly. I want to say that I am an undocumented immigrant.

As the gravity of what she had just said sunk in, the young womans eyes swelled with tears.

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Teen Confesses Undocumented Status To Hillary Clinton

NEW YORK Hillary Rodham Clinton took the stage here Thursday with her daughter, Chelsea, and actress America Ferrera to begin what the former secretary of state calls a series of No Ceilings conversations aimed at encouraging women and girls to aim high.

Yet as the political world waits for word on whether Clinton will once again aim for the highest office in the land, it seems as if shes been having these sorts of conversations for months now.

Ever since leaving the State Department in early 2013, Clinton has been traveling the country, delivering paid speeches and pushing the projects shes working on at the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.

And at many of those stops, the former first lady and Democratic senator from New York put her focus on erasing the often-hidden discrimination that frequently leaves women rungs below men on the professional ladder.

Thats just what she did here Thursday, detailing her No Ceilings project, which aims to measure the progress of womens rights worldwide.

Acknowledging that old-fashioned discrimination still exists in the United States, Clinton said: There should be no artificial barriers, so that individual women can always prove their worth and demonstrate they can fit into whatever role or job theyre seeking.

Clintons allies say such comments and her No Ceilings effort are simply the latest manifestation of her lifelong fight for womens rights. But Republican leaders see it as a less-than-subtle effort to engage women in a presidential campaign that is not likely to begin in earnest until early next year.

We all agree girls and women should have equal opportunity but the truth is Hillary has been a follower on this issue: She made a political calculation not to speak about opportunity in 2008, and shes making a political calculation to talk about it now, said Kirsten Kukowski, spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee. Who knows what she will really stand for if she were to ever make it back to the White House.

Whatever her motivations, Clintons effort to place women at the center of her agenda contrasts sharply with what voters saw in the 2008 Democratic primaries.

Facing off against a barrier-breaking African-American candidate named Barack Obama, Clinton waged a hyper-cautious campaign that never strongly stressed that she, too, could be a ground-breaker: the first female president.

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Hillary Clinton makes women her political priority