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Encomium on Hillary Clinton
In recent history, no other First Lady has engendered as much admiration and criticism as Hillary Rodham Clinton. While her immediate predecessors were content to wield their influence indirectly or to busy themselves with uncontroversial social projects, Clinton follows in the footsteps of their earlier counterparts. Indeed, Clinton has much more in common with first ladies like Abigail Adams, Dolly Madison and the outspoken Eleanor Roosevelt. This has given rise to charges that she is an opportunist, one who sways with the political winds and who therefore lacks a key leadership trait - integrity. She has also been criticized for overstepping her role as First Lady, first in Arkansas and later, on the national stage.
Unlike First Ladies like Barbara Bush and Nancy Reagan, Clinton always had an interest in public service. In fact, it may even surprise many of her critics to find that Clinton started her political career as a Republican. She evidenced leadership skills early, even participating as a teenager in Republican-led efforts to prove that Chicago Mayor Richard Daley stole the election from Richard Nixon through "creative vote counting." At Wellesley College, she also served as president the Young Republicans Club and even worked on Nelson Rockefeller's presidential campaign.
Furthermore, throughout her career, Clinton has made remarks that have been taken as insults by many less liberal women, particularly in southern states. Finally, she has also been vilified for running as a representative of New York, rather than in her hometown of Chicago or in her adopted state of Arkansas.
However, in explaining her conversion to the Democratic Party, Clinton remarked, "I didn't leave the Republican Party as much as it left me." In her book Living History, Clinton recalls being dismayed over the Republican Party's rightward drift. She was further disillusioned with her former party's stand during the Vietnam War.
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