RESIST, INSIST, PERSIST, ENLIST.” - HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
'Smashed' director James Ponsoldt to direct Hillary Clinton biopic
Published Tuesday, Apr 30 2013James Ponsoldt is attached to direct a biopic of Hillary Clinton.
Ponsoldt, who directed Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Aaron Paul in last year's Smashed, has been "pencilled in" to direct Rodham, according to The Wrap.
Hillary Clinton hits Chicago June 13 to be honored at CURE dinner
WASHINGTON -- Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton hits Chicago on June 13 to be honored by CURE, the epilepsy research foundation -- this while a new poll and the start Wednesday of a new chapter in her life are sparking even more speculation about a 2016 White House bid.
CURE -- Citizens for Research in Epilepsy -- was founded by President Barack Obama's former top strategist David Axelrod, and his wife, Susan, 15 years ago; their daughter, Lauren, has epilepsy.
Clinton, then the first lady, was the draw at the group's very first fund-raising dinner and the boost from her star power was "instrumental in getting us started," Axelrod told me.
The June event will be at the Navy Pier Grand Ballroom and Clinton (a Chicago native: born in Edgewater Hospital, raised in Park Ridge) will deliver remarks for the CURE fund-raiser at a time when guessing about a future presidential run is the top political sport.
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The New York Daily News ran this humorous take on the event. After all these years, finally, her name comes first!May 3 Airport Naming Dedication Ceremony in Little Rock
By: KARK 4 News
LITTLE ROCK, AR - The Little Rock Municipal Airport Commission is ready to welcome Bill and Hillary Clinton back home for an airport renaming ceremony next month.
The event will be held at 11:30 a.m. on Friday, May 3 in front of the airport, and will also celebrate the completion of the airport's $67 million Phase I improvement project. Some of the completed renovations include a redesigned ticket lobby and baggage screening area.
The ceremony will be free and open to the public, but tickets will be limited. Click here to reserve tickets through an online registration form.
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"Hillary and I are so honored to have Little Rock National Airport named in our honor," said President Bill Clinton. "We are excited that the first phase of renovation is complete, and look forward to seeing all of the airport's improvements in May."
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Jokes are flying about Clintons' 'Hillbilly' airport
By Marianne Garvey and Brian Niemietz
Published: Monday, April 22, 2013, 2:00 AM
Updated: Monday, April 22, 2013, 2:00 AM
The new Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport in Little Rock, Ark., will hold a dedication ceremony May 3 featuring the former President and his wife and ex- Secretary of State — but there’s just one problem for the snazzy new airport.
The LIttle Rock, Ark., airport is being renamed after Hillary and Bill Clinton, and locals are excited.
“Locals are calling it the Hillbilly Airport,” one insider tells Confidenti@l. “And project managers certainly don’t want an airport named after our President called Hillbilly. In the South. How does that look to the world?”
We only got a glimpse of her car at the “Ready for Hillary” rally in Dallas yesterday. There were at least 45 people there (we counted), and a few more joined later. Lots of press. CNN, FOX, local stations and one from Austin. They interviewed people and took footage and stayed the entire time we were there. The people who attended were from all over the area and all eagerly took the Hillary 2016 bumper stickers that were being passed out, as well as an informational flyer on the first organizational meeting to be held June 1st at a Mexican restaurant closeby..
There were all sorts of people there, people from the PAC, people who had worked on her campagian, volunteers and party chairs. People brought home made signs and wore buttons. Also, lots of “Ready for Hillary” and Hillary will “Turn Texas Blue” signs. Everyone seemed happy and eager to work hard, if Hillary decides to run. Lots of cheering and honks from people driving by.
I took pictures, but am going to have to get one of my friends to help me post them here, as I am clueless.
The only negative, was that the local newspapers played it down in today’s paper and decreased the number to “possibly 30″..but that was to be expected. After all, we were in Bush country and his museum was opening the next day, as noted by still4hill.
All in all, I’d say the mood was “determined”….when/if we get the word!!
According to The Daily Mail, Hillary Clinton was twice asked the question that, for two years running, has represented the most ridiculous waste of time spent with her. Granted she is said to have pulled down six figures for this appearance, and you might argue that those paying that much are entitled to use their moment in her presence any way they want, but seriously, if you had two minutes with Hillary Clinton, knowing what that answer is going to be (we all know) would this be the question you would ask?
More than 300 of the apartment industry's top executives gathered at the Four Seasons at Las Colinas in Dallas today for NMHC's spring business meetings. The day opened with the Apartment Finance Strategies Conference, which included in-depth discussion of financing and operations issues, trends and forecasts, and closed with an exclusive interview with former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Secretary Clinton is considered a potential front runner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.
This appearance is Secretary Clinton's first paid speaking engagement since leaving office and continues NMHC's tradition of connecting members with a wide spectrum of world-class thought leaders. Similarly, past speakers have included Secretary Clinton's husband and former President Bill Clinton, as well as members of the Bush legacy, including former Presidents George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, among numerous other influential political and business leaders.
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Hillary Clinton dodges 2016 talk and says she just wants to relax at first paid speech since leaving office
By Associated Press Reporter
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Tom Bozzuto, chairman and CEO of the Bozzuto Group, a real estate services organization based in Greenbelt, Md., conducted an interview of Clinton during the hour-long session, and said he covered topics such as international affairs, the economy and the role of rental housing in the U.S.
When he asked about 2016, Bozzuto said Clinton told the audience that she was 'too freshly released from her role as secretary of state to have time to even think about this.'
Bozzuto said Clinton said she had been asked about the subject by someone in the hallway minutes before the speech. 'She said she was looking forward to having time to relax,' he said.
Oh! So he is speculating! Never mind that she accepted full responsibility for failures, provided State Department personnel to testify and documents for examination as requested, submitted the Accountability Review Board report in a timely fashion from home while recovering from a concussion and blood clot, and went on to testify in person before committees in both the Senate and the House as requested before she had fully recovered from her serious (and scary) health issues - never mind all of that. Chaffetz and his Tea Partiers think documents are being hidden. According to an article yesterday in The Hill, the former secretary was not interviewed by the audit committee.Fox's Kelly Interviews Rep. Chaffetz And Ignores His Hypocrisy Over Embassy Security
ANDREW LAWRENCE
During the interview there was no mention of Rep. Chaffetz's own vote to cut funding to embassy security or reports that have undermined right-wing attacks on Clinton.
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Kelly provided Chaffetz with numerous opportunities to bash Clinton - asking if Clinton "blatantly lied" over requests being made for more security at the embassy, allowing Chaffetz to make claims that Clinton personally denied more security for the embassy, and speculating that there are documents being hidden from lawmakers that prove Clinton had direct knowledge regarding the lack of security at the embassy.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton to Speak at ASTA’s Global Convention
Alexandria, VA, April 23, 2013 – The Honorable Hillary Rodham Clinton, Former Secretary of State and Former U.S. Senator from New York will address attendees in the closing session at ASTA’s Global Convention in Miami, FL Sept 17 to 19, 2013. This year marks a new vision for the convention with a format that will deliver education for agents in technology, marketing and sales.
“We are very excited to welcome such a prominent speaker to ASTA’s Global Convention,” said Zane Kerby, ASTA president and CEO.
Secretary Clinton will address attendees during the closing General Session on Sept. 19, at the James L. Knight Center in Miami.
The keynote address from Secretary Clinton will be an exciting opportunity for all ASTA convention attendees.
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“I thank her every time she sings ’Evergreen’ for me at political events,” said former President Clinton, who called Streisand to the stage and handed her the award.These were President Clinton's words in tribute to Barbra Streisand as she received the Chaplin Award at Lincoln Center. Everyone who is anyone was there.
Scene Last Night: Clintons, Streisand, Cohn, Blavatnik
April 23, 2013
Bill and Hillary Clinton dined with industrialist Len Blavatnik and hedge-fund manager Richard Perry. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. President Gary Cohn left his seat with Anchorage Capital Group LLC’s Kevin Ulrich to visit at their table.
I could not agree more with this remark!
Speakeasy: Aww: Bill Clinton thinks his wife is beautiful
Alicia M. Cohn
Examiner Staff Writer
The Washington ExaminerApril 23, 2013 | 6:17 pm
"Someone told me when I was elected president that politics was show business for ugly people. That was before Hillary got into it."
- Bill Clinton, at a New York City event honoring Barbra Streisand on Monday night, according to Variety. The former president also reportedly invited co-presenter Ben Stiller over for a "Meet the Fockers" movie night to "watch Barbra give sex advice to old people -- like me!"
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Barbra Streisand wins film award
Bill and Hillary Clinton among guests at gala dinner in New York
Associated Press in New York
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 23 April 2013 12.27 EDT
"Ever since I can remember, people have been calling me bossy and opinionated," Barbra Streisand told a crowd at Lincoln Centre on Monday night. "Maybe that's because I am. Three cheers for bossy women!"Barbra Streisand at the Chaplin awards gala. Photograph: Jim Spellman/WireImage
The crowd, which included Bill and Hillary Clinton, cheered for pretty much anything connected to Streisand all evening as the star of song and screen was honoured for her film career with the 40th annual Chaplin award from the Film Society of Lincoln Centre.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Though currently she is -- at least temporarily -- out of political life, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton continues to enjoy a strong favorability rating, now 64%. Americans view Clinton more favorably than the president and vice president, as well as Clinton's successor, Secretary of State John Kerry.April 23, 2013Hillary Clinton Is Still Popular, More So Than Obama, Biden
Clinton starts with advantage over Biden if both run in 2016
Survey Methods
Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted April 11-14, 2013, with a random sample of 1,012 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
For results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points.
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The dinner is scheduled for 7 p.m., and, in what has become an instant tradition, the Ready for Hillary Super PAC has planned a rally to greet her at the venue and encourage her to run in 2016.Keynote Speaker
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Hillary Rodham Clinton will keynote the National Multi Housing Council’s (NMHC) 2013 Spring Board of Directors Meeting dinner in Dallas on April 24. Clinton served as Secretary of State from January 2009 until February 2013. She joined the State Department after nearly four decades in public service as an advocate, attorney, first lady and senator.
The 2013 NMHC Spring Board of Directors Meeting will be held April 24 and 25 at the Four Seasons Resort & Club in Dallas. The Spring Board Meeting brings together senior apartment executives from the industry’s leading firms. This meeting provides Executive Committee and Board members with an invaluable opportunity to candidly share information and insight on issues of common interest. The Spring Board Meeting immediately follows the 2013 NMHC Apartment Strategies/Finance Conference being held at the same location on April 23 and 24.The Spring Board Meeting is open to NMHC Executive Committee and Board of Directors members only.
President and Mrs. Bush look forward to sharing this historic day with all living Presidents, dignitaries and supporters of the Bush Center. President Barack Obama and Mrs. Michelle Obama, President George H.W. Bush and Mrs. Barbara Bush, President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and President Jimmy Carter and Mrs. Rosalynn Carter will participate in this special ceremony.There are no plans for a rally at this event as far as we know.
Due to space limitations, attendance at the Dedication Ceremony is by invitation only.
The Bush Center welcomes you to join President and Mrs. Bush for the live webcast of the Dedication Ceremony. With world leaders in attendance for this historic day, the event is expected to enjoy internationally-televised coverage. Please refer to your local listings for news coverage. The webcast will begin at 8:00 a.m.
I said in my speech yesterday before the AGOA Forum, quoting one of our famous judges, that sunlight is the best disinfectant. And I think there’s an opportunity for young people and for civil society to use modern technology to run corruption watches and reporting. There are some examples of this beginning around the world where you basically surface what is going on.
And it goes on at all levels of society, and frankly, look, it goes on in our society. We have to go after it all the time ourselves. You have seen people get arrested in America, whether they’re governors or they’re Congress members, if there is a belief that they have committed an act of corruption
And I think there ought to be a way to use interactive media, especially the internet, obviously, and some of the new vehicles like Twitter, et cetera, to report in real time allegations of corruption.Although this message was not widely seen here, the Kenyan students heard her loud and clear and took her words very seriously as The Daily Nation Reports.
Corruption? Don’t try it at my university please
By EVERLINE OKEWO eokewo@ke.nationmedia.com
Posted Monday, April 22 2013 at 01:00
A group of 15 graduates have localised a global whistleblowing website to report indecent activities by university lecturers and administrative personnel.Notinmycountry.org, an Internet site developed by concerned individuals, among them professionals and students who prefer to remain anonymous, is now in Kenya and university students are using it to expose malpractices in their institutions, including corruption.
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The founders say that the creation of the local chapter of notinmycountry.org was inspired by a statement made by former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton when she visited Kenya in 2009.
So while we Hillary followers were somewhat frustrated at the time with the paltry coverage this trip received, it is heartening to see young people turn her words into actions that address problems they have identified in their environment. We hope she is aware of the difference she has made in the lives of these students.
... attention naturally turned to whether Hillary Clinton would run for president in 2016.
Clinton demurred, saying that his wife left her secretary of State post four months ago and has been recovering from the concussion she suffered after fainting in December.
"I've urged her to take at least a year … to rest and get her batteries recharged, and to stay back from politics, and then take a look at where we are and what she thinks," he said. "I have no earthly idea what she's going to do ... I think she did a heck of a job as secretary of State and I'm proud of her."
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Just Seeing Hillary Clinton's Face Improves Women's Public Speaking
A new study finds women give longer and more confident political speeches when they are exposed to images of female role models.Posted 04.19.2013 at 11:00 am
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What do women in politics need? Strong female role models.
Encouraging Hillary Lawrence Jackson
A new paper in the May issue of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology suggests that even just seeing images of female role models can help women speak publicly and perform as leaders.
... scientists asked 149 students from a Swiss university (81 women, 68 men) to give a persuasive political speech against increasing student fees, within the context of a virtual reality program that put them in front of an audience of six men and six women. For some participants, the back wall of the virtual room featured a hanging picture of Hillary Clinton. For others, it showed a portrait of Bill Clinton or Angela Merkel, and for some the wall remained blank.
The researchers timed and videotaped the speech, then asked the students to evaluate their performance. A separate group of people unaware of the experimental conditions watched the speeches and rated them based on fluency and body language.
Virtual Politics: Latu et al.
Both the people watching the speeches and those giving them perceived longer speeches as being more positive. When there was no role model in view, men spoke longer than women. The same held true for speaking under the withering gaze of Big Bill.
Female role models eliminated the gender gap, though. Women gave longer speeches and evaluated themselves more positively when they were primed with with images Hillary Clinton and Angela Merkel than when they saw Bill Clinton or weren't primed at all. The outside observers also rated their speeches higher.
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CNN reports.Global Fund for Women's 25th Anniversary is a party with a purpose. On Wednesday, April 17th, we will celebrate 25 years as the world’s leading funder of women’s rights, and recognize some of the extraordinary women leading the way to equality and justice around the world.CNN’s Christiane Amanpour anchors the sold out event. The Hon. Rodham Hillary Clinton will deliver the keynote speech and honor Charlotte Bunch, one of the brains behind UN Women. Cecile Richards of Planned Parenthood Federation of America will present the inaugural Charlotte Bunch Human Rights Defender awards to three extraordinary women from Colombia, Egypt and Serbia. Jennifer Buffett and Jacquelyn Zehner will be honored with Global Philanthropy Awards.
Hillary Clinton reacts to Boston bombing
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"I've been obsessed the last few days as I'm sure a number of you have been about the terrible violence and loss of life and injury in Boston," she said. "Like so many Americans and those watching around the world, we saw ordinary citizens alongside first responders rushing into danger to help. It was a tragic terrible day, but it seemed to exemplify what Patriots Day really means, because we do better when we work together. Women and men, all of us across every line that is used to divide us.
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Obama Misses Hillary Clinton, But Says 'She's Earned Her Rest' (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post | By Nick Wing Posted: 04/17/2013 10:34 am EDT
President Barack Obama couldn't avoid questions about Hillary Clinton potentially running for president in 2016 during a recent interview on NBC's "Today" show.
Speaking with NBC's Savannah Guthrie in an interview recorded last week and aired Wednesday morning, Obama steered clear of assuming anything about Clinton's White House plans. But he also appeared happy to praise his former secretary of state, who departed the administration earlier this year.
"Do you miss her around here?" Guthrie asked.
"I do," Obama responded. "She's earned her rest and I know that she's going to be able -- whatever she does -- to continue to be a leader and an incredibly positive force for the causes I care about and that she cares about all around the world."
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LONDON — More than 2,000 invitations were sent out for the Wednesday funeral of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Among the former U.S. presidents, surviving U.K. prime ministers, world leaders and celebrities who made the cut are some high profile would-be guests who sent regrets: Former First Lady Nancy Reagan — whose husband had a close relationship with the late premier — will not be able to attend; nor will former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who shared key moments in history with the Iron Lady. Germany’s Angela Merkel is sending her foreign minister, while U.S. power families the Clintons and the Bushes won’t be making appearances.
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| US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, is greeted by Ireland's President Mary McAleese and her husband Martin at Aras an Uachtarain in Dublin, Ireland as part of her five day tour of Europe Sunday Oct. 11, 2009. (AP Photo/Niall Carson/PA Wire) |
In short, the head of government is the "chief," the head of state is the president, and the Irish Republic has not seen fit to assign a Gaelic title to the latter position which serves a purpose similar to that of a monarch in a parliamentary monarchy like the United Kingdom where the Queen is regarded, largely, as a figurehead. Linguistic matters aside, while we, stateside, have been impressed since the early 90s that the Irish have had two women presidents, the position itself is not a very powerful one leading Gabrielle Monaghan of the Independent to ask if Ireland will soon (or ever) have a woman Taoiseach.The words Taoiseach and Tánaiste (the title of the deputy prime minister) are both from the Irish language and of ancient origin. Though the Taoiseach is described in the Constitution of Ireland as "the head of the Government or Prime Minister",[nb 3] its literal translation is chieftain or leader.[9] Tánaiste in turn refers to the system of tanistry, the Gaelic system of succession whereby a leader would appoint an heir apparent while still living.
In Scottish Gaelic, tòiseach translates as clan chief and both words originally had similar meaning in the Gaelic languages of Scotland and Ireland. The related Welsh language word tywysog (current meaning: prince) has a similar origin and meaning.[2] Both derive ultimately from the proto-Celtic *towissākos "chieftain, leader".
Joan, Lucinda, Averil – could we ever have our own Iron Lady?
Gabrielle Monaghan
Two weeks after the last general election, readers of the New York Times were told Ireland had sworn in its first female Taoiseach. It was a false alarm, of course: the paper thought Enda Kenny was a woman.
But as the UK prepares for Margaret Thatcher's funeral, its first female prime minister, some question whether Ireland could ever have an Iron Lady of its own.
Female leaders are hardly a novelty in global politics; Germany, Australia, Iceland, Denmark, Argentina and Thailand all have a female prime minister. In the US, there is mounting speculation that Hillary Clinton will run for president in 2016.
After our next general election, also due in 2016, the odds of a woman being elected Taoiseach are 20-1, bookmakers Paddy Power calculated this week. But their odds lower dramatically for subsequent elections.
Read more >>>>Aside from the fact that this is Ireland, and for any forecast of anything happening in the world, one turns to the Irish bookies (they were very busy weeks ago during the conclave of the College of Cardinals), Monaghan finds the probability somewhat bleak despite legislation that requires representation within the parties.
The Government legislated last year to halve funding to political parties if they fail to make sure that at least 30pc of their election candidates are women, a measure that will take effect in time for the next general election.
At present, women account for just 15pc of Dáil seats, the same proportion as North Korea and behind Rwanda. At this rate, the National Women's Council had estimated, it would take 370 years before half the Dáil was female.Earlier this month, at the Women in the World 2013 Summit, Hillary Clinton, our own leading prospect for woman chief, said for the Nth time that the full participation of women in the economy and society is the unfinished business of the 21st century. She has been broadcasting this message around the globe for more than four years in addition to citing concrete examples of where women have been allowed (or have apprehended) egress and how that has aided societies.
