7th Annual Hillary Clinton Year in Review: Installment III March 2015

Hillary began March on a date with Bill Clinton to see the musical Hamilton, then playing Off-Broadway.  It since has moved to The Great White Way and is a huge hit.

The Clintons were here tonight. So that's presidents #1, 2#, #3 and #42 accounted for. (Maybe #45?) #HAMILTONpublic

— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) March 2, 2015

The Clintons lost another friend when Rev. Theodore Hesburgh passed away.

The media, and particularly the New York Times, launched what would become a season or more of attacks based on Hillary's use of a private email server.  These were regularly deflected by the State Department, Media Matters, and members of Hillary's own team who came to her defense. Hillary herself addressed the issue several times and insisted that she wanted the public to see her emails.   Since that time, many have been released by the State Department and news sources continue to pour over them.

Hillary continued her active public speaking career with participation in CGIU, a No Ceilings event with Chelsea and Melinda Gates, the annual U.N. Women's Empowerment event (where the media paid far more attention to a brief presser she gave on the sidelines about - yep - her emails), a surprise visit to eBay execs in San Jose, California, and what was to become the final professional speaking engagement for the duration addressing camp professionals in Atlantic City, New Jersey.  Near the end of March, she keynoted the Toner Award event in D.C.

Hillary also continued being recognized with awards and honors.  Emily's list bestowed their We Are Emily Award on her and  Irish America Magazine inducted her into their Hall of Fame.

Over the course of the month,  Hillary became very active on Twitter speaking out on a variety of issues.  This attention to current events on social media added to the weaning off of scheduled paid speaking events signaled that change was in the air.  Meanwhile the House Select Committee on Benghazi continued beating their drums and ended the month insisting that she testify in private rather than publicly.  It was becoming clear that there was an impending campaign and the Republicans in Congress intended to head it off or inflict damage by using their sworn sacred duty for dirty political purposes.  That was lost on no one here or anywhere in the Hillary world.

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Hillary Clinton Drops in to Surprise eBay Execs in San Jose

Never say Hillary Clinton isn't full of surprises! She gets a big charge out of doing this sort of thing.

Hillary Clinton drops in on eBay women's summit

Marco della Cava, USA TODAY 1:26 a.m. EDT March 12, 2015

 

 

SAN JOSE, Calif. – With the spotlight glowing hotter on tech company diversity numbers, eBay sought to put its best face forward at an internal women-focused conference Wednesday that drew a surprise guest in Hillary Clinton.
"If we apply Silicon Valley's successful approach to the issues of gender and inequality, I'm sure we can make progress," Clinton told 400 female and 100 male eBay executives who had gathered for the company's Women's Initiative Network Summit here.
The former Secretary of State and presumptive 2016 Democratic presidential candidate noted that a natural bias towards men in hiring and promotion "is hardwired, so we have to go the extra mile to unwrap it."

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