There’s no doubt that the 2016 U.S. Presidential race is a trending election, attracting major attention within the worlds of entertainment, politics and social media.
In light of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign, here is ENTITY’s list of major events that highlight both her professional and personal life with husband and former President, Bill Clinton.
1969
Hillary is accepted and enrolls at Yale Law School, where she meets her future husband, Bill Clinton.
According to ABC News, in Hillary’s memoir, “Living History,” she recalls how she met Bill: “So I stood up from the desk, walked over to him and said, ‘If you’re going to keep looking at me, and I’m going to keep looking back, we might as well be introduced. I’m Hillary Rodham’. . . That was it. The way Bill tells the story, he couldn’t remember his own name.”
1975
Hillary Rodham marries Bill Clinton and becomes Mrs. Clinton.
1978
Bill Clinton is elected Governor of Arkansas. Hillary becomes the First Lady of Arkansas.
1992
After running a successful campaign, Bill Clinton wins the US Presidency and Hillary Clinton becomes the First Lady of the United States.
1998
Media coverage emerges of a rumored extra-marital affair between Bill Clinton and a White House intern named Monica Lewinsky.
Captivating the attention of the entire country, Hillary publicly supports her husband through the alleged affair and initially believes his denial.
“Bill and I have been accused of everything, including murder, by some of the very same people who are behind these allegations,” Washington Post says she told NBC during a Today Show interview. “So from my perspective, this is part of the continuing political campaign against my husband.”
2001
Hillary is elected to the U.S. Senate as a representative from New York.
According to Telegraph, she told reporters in Davenport, New York in 1999, “Why the Senate and why New York and why me? All I can say is that I care deeply about the issues that are important in this state, that I’ve already been learning about and hearing about.”
2007-2008
Hillary enters the Democratic Presidential primary race in 2007, favored to win but is beaten by fellow Senator Barack Obama, who was inaugurated as President of the United States in January 2008.
According to the Washington Post, after Senator Clinton conceded defeat she told supporters, “Although we weren’t able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling, this time, thanks to you, it’s got about 18 million cracks in it.”
2009
Hillary Clinton becomes U.S. Secretary of State.
She visits 112 countries during her time in the position.
“I believe with all my heart that this is a new era for America,” Clinton said on her first day, according to Fox News.
April 2015
Hillary Clinton announces her candidacy for U.S. President.
“Everyday Americans need a champion and I want to be that champion,” she said in her Presidential announcement video, according to the LA Times.
July 2016
Hillary Clinton accepts the Democratic nominee on July 28, 2016, and “makes history,” as ABC News writes.
She tells her supporters during the 2016 Democratic National Convention,”Today, we’ve reached a milestone in our nation’s march toward a more perfect union. The first time that a major party has nominated a woman for President. Standing here as my mother’s daughter’s, and my daughter’s mother, I’m so happy this day has come. Happy for grandmothers and little girls and everyone in between. Happy for boys and men, too, because when any barrier falls in America, for anyone, it clears the way for everyone.”
