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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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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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Talk of Hillary Campaign Forces out Old Issues

Hillary Clinton writes in her upcoming memoir that no one person has had a bigger influence on her life or shaped her more as a person than her mother, who died nearly three years ago by her side.

Vogue Magazine today released the first excerpt of Clinton's much anticipated memoir, "Hard Choices" - a heartfelt and personal Mother's Day tribute to her mother, Dorothy Howell Rodham.

In the piece, Clinton, who says she has been reflecting more about motherhood lately as she prepares to be a grandmother, gives touching and humanizing anecdotes about her relationship with own mother, the struggles her mother overcame and the lessons she passed along.

"Like so many Americans of my generation, I felt both blessed to have these extra years with an aging parent and very responsible for making sure she was comfortable and well cared for," she writes about her mother, who lived with the Clintons in Washington, D.C. until she died at the age of 92. "Mom gave me so much unconditional love and support when I was growing up in Park Ridge, Illinois; now it was my turn to support her."

Even so, Clinton, describes the way in which she continued to rely heavily on her mom for emotional support throughout the most challenging moments in her career, specifically the period at the end of her failed 2008 presidential campaign.

"Having her so close became a source of great comfort to me," she writes. "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."

Hillary Clinton's daughter, Chelsea, often speaks about the important role her grandmother had in her life, which Clinton also details in the piece. She describes how her mom, who had a challenging upbringing filled with "trauma and abandonment," helped Chelsea "navigate the unique challenges of growing up in the public eye," and encouraged her to pursue her passion for service and philanthropy.

In one of the most humanizing moments in the tribute, Clinton writes about the day in 2011 in which her mother took a turn for the worse, causing Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time, to cancel a trip overseas and rush to the hospital.

"Mom was a fighter her entire life," she writes, describing the moment "But it was finally time to let go."

Clinton ends the tribute with a lesson from her mother - perhaps one she herself will use as she considers a run for president. She writes that if her mother were alive today, she would say: "Never rest on your laurels. Never quit. Never stop working to make the world a better place. That's our unfinished business."

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