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Hillary Clinton couldnt have picked a more historic day to be surrounded by some of her most ardent fans onhome turf.

As the House voted to impeach President Donald Trump on Wednesday, Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee who lost to Trump despite winning the popular vote,took the stage at Pace University, just four miles away from her home in Chappaqua.

The House voted on Wednesday to impeach Trumpforalleged abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

It is a story of abuse of power, using the office of the presidentto further not the nation's objectives but his own personal political objectives," Clinton said."The facts are not at dispute. This is not a he said, she said. This is what happened.

"It's really important to me that I do everything I can and make sure that we retire the incumbent regardless of what happens," she added.

Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea, were at Pace University in Pleasantville to discuss their new book, The Book of Gutsy Women with singer Vanessa Williams, a fellow Chappaqua resident.

Actress and singer Vanessa Williams interviews Hillary and Chelsea Clinton at Pace University in Pleasantville Dec 18, 2019. The event was held to promote the book The Book of Gutsy Women that Hillary and Chelsea Clinton have just published.(Photo: Seth Harrison/The Journal News)

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Lori Gowen Morton,a member ofChappaqua Friends of Hill leading up to the 2016 election, came to Pace with her daughters Nora, 12, and Kelly, 9.

I find it particularly satisfying today to be in the company of strong women celebrating other strong women, shesaid.

I want my daughters to grow up with the confidence and resilience to pursue their own big ideas and overcome challenges and failures that come along the way.

Gowen Morton said she couldnt imagine a better role model for this than Hillary Clinton and the women whose stories she and Chelsea share in theirbook.

I also want them to grow up in a country that defends the ideals of our constitution, protecting our institutions from corruption, foreign interference and unchecked power.

Another attendee, Frank Cosentino, of New Rochelle, said he was curious to hear Clintons take on thenature of politics today.

She won the popular vote by 3 million and didn't become president," he said."And now the person that beat her is getting impeached. Its a crazy time.

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Hillary Clinton speaks while she and daughter Chelsea were being interviewed by actress and singer Vanessa Williams at Pace University in Pleasantville Dec 18, 2019. The event was held to promote the book The Book of Gutsy Women that Hillary and Chelsea Clinton have just published.(Photo: Seth Harrison/The Journal News)

Hardly anyone in American history could be more intimately familiar with impeachment than Clinton, who has had ties to three of the four presidential impeachment proceedingsin American history, including that of her husband Bill Clinton.

As a young lawyer fresh out of Yale Law School in 1974, Hillary Clinton was part of a team of staffers on the House Judicial Committee tasked with writing a memo on what should be considered an impeachable offense for an American president during Richard Nixons Watergate scandal.

Clinton and others on the bipartisan team produced a 64-page memo detailing the origins of impeachment and the constitutional grounds that would be needed to impeach an American president. Nixon resigned before the impeachment vote.

Members of the audience listen as actress and singer Vanessa Williams interviews Hillary and Chelsea Clinton at Pace University in Pleasantville Dec 18, 2019. The event was held to promote the book The Book of Gutsy Women that Hillary and Chelsea Clinton have just published.(Photo: Seth Harrison/The Journal News)

In 1998, Bill Clinton became the second American president, after Andrew Johnson in 1868, to be impeached when the House approved two articles of impeachment accusing him of perjury to a grand jury and obstruction of justice. The Senate acquitted him of both charges the following January.

The impeachment inquiry was launched following a whistleblowers complaint that Trump pressured Ukraine PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyto investigate 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and Bidens son, Hunter Biden, who served on the board of a Ukrainian energy company.

The former first lady, senator, secretary of state and the 2016 Democratic nominee for presidentcontinues to remain a dominant voice in the national political conversation.

Cover for "The Books of Gutsy Women" by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton(Photo: Amazon.com)

A newonline Harris Poll surveyof registered Democrats released by the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard earlier this week found that Hillary Clinton wastheir top choicefor the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination.

Kathleen Troy, from Danbury, Connecticut, said history would look kindly on Hillary and see just how ugly this whole scene was.

I do think the election was stolen," she said. "It's historic today. And I'm also heartbroken about where we are and knowing how much better everything would have been with her.

The book, which features more than 100 trailblazing women whose courage and resilience inspired them, includes American abolitionist Harriet Tubman, LGBTQ activist Edith Windsor and Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old climate activist.

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