Hillary Clinton Honored with 2014 William O. Douglas Award
In Los Angeles as part of a western leg of her book signing tour,
Hillary attended the Public Counsel Dinner at the Hyatt Regency Century
Plaza in Century City last night and received the William O. Douglas
Award from her good friend Mary Steenburgen.
Former Secretary of State and U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
will speak at Public Counsel’s annual William O. Douglas Dinner Award
and receive the William O. Douglas Award in Los Angeles on June 19,
2014.
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About the William O. Douglas Award: The William O.
Douglas Award is named for late Supreme Court Justice William O.
Douglas, noted for his support for civil rights and freedom of speech.
Past recipients of the award include Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel,
President Bill Clinton, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Dole, Secretary of State
Madeleine K. Albright, and Peace Corps founder Sargent Shriver.
Through heavily promoted interviews and a CNN town hall, Hillary Clinton’s
answer to the will-you-or-won’t-you question about 2016 is no longer
news, but an exercise in how she will tease the fact that she’s
thinking about another run for the presidency.
On Thursday, as she accepted the William O. Douglas Award from legal advocacy organization Public Counsel,
she came from behind a podium and paced back and forth before the crowd
of about 1,500 that filled the Century Plaza Hotel ballroom.
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Clinton did insist that she’s not focused on making a decision about
2016, but on becoming a grandmother, with daughter Chelsea expecting
this fall.
Saying she was trying to stay “in the moment,” she said, “I’ve
already run for president once. Becoming a grandmother is totally new
and different.”
Former Secretary of State and U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton will speak at Public Counsel’s annual William O. Douglas Dinner Award and receive the William O. Douglas Award in Los Angeles on June 19, 2014.
