Frontline- Great doc PBS NOW. Hillary profile LIFE 1969, at Chicago riot 1968 nursing wounded. lol

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Documentary is about both Trump and Hillary. The more you know.... Her celebrity got Bill's attention, started her attraction to politics. Trump was scummy of course.

http://time.com/3502935/life-with-hillary-portraits-of-a-wellesley-grad-1969

 

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I didn't know she was in Chicago, sort of by coincidence, and got angry at graduation by Brooke's speech.

 

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Taking On A U.S. Senator As A Student Propelled Clinton Into The Spotlight

Hillary Rodham's 1969 commencement address at Wellesley College did not stand out because of what she said.

It stood out because of how she said it, and because she said it at all. This is a story not about words, but about context.

Before 1969, Wellesley had never had a student speaker at commencement. Administrators spoke and special guests spoke, but students at this women's college didn't have a voice on graduation day.

Eldie Acheson, a classmate of Hillary Clinton, then Hillary Rodham, led the effort to have a student speak at their commencement. She says the fact that they had never before had a student speaker seemed crazy. But it wasn't easy.


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"We approached the administration and we asked if we could have a student speaker," Acheson said. "The administration said no, so we fell back and regrouped.

A Turbulent Time
The class of '69 had been through a lot together. When they started college, there was still a hint of the innocence of the early 1960s. By the time they were set to graduate, the Vietnam War and protests against it were in full swing; college campuses had become centers of activism and conflict; and both Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy had been assassinated.

Acheson says she and her classmates wanted to mark that and the transition to their adult lives. And eventually, Acheson says, the administration relented.

"The administration switched its position," she recalled. "The president of the college said, 'OK, we will afford that opportunity to the graduating class of '69.' "

Clinton was the first student to deliver a commencement speech at Wellesley College in 1969. Her criticism of Sen. Edward Brooke's speech received national attention.

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Acheson doesn't remember how it came to be that Rodham was chosen to give the speech. But she was the student body president and was well-known by students and faculty alike.

Hillary Clinton wrote in her book Living History that she fretted over the remarks, worrying about how she could fit their tumultuous four years into a single speech. She wrote that classmates came by offering her ideas and often conflicting advice.

Her professor and adviser at the time, Alan Schechter, says he remembers it clearly.

"Hillary had read the speech to me beforehand. Not for my approval, but to get my reaction to it," Schechter said, "and I thought it was a perfect example of youthful idealism at the time, where young people were dissatisfied with what was happening in our society."

The Day Of The Speech
But the speech Rodham read to Schechter is only part of what she delivered at the commencement ceremony. And it's the part that wasn't planned that drew all the attention.

The special guest speaker that day was Sen. Edward Brooke. A moderate Republican from Massachusetts and the first African-American popularly elected to the U.S. Senate. His speech celebrated incremental progress and spent a lot of time arguing against protest. Ultimately, he said, he believed "the overwhelming majority of Americans will stand firm on one principle: Coercive protest is wrong, and one reason it is wrong is because it is unnecessary."

Clinton's Wellesley Commencement Address

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After Brooke, it was time for Rodham to speak. The school's president, Ruth Adams, introduced her with praise.

"There was no debate so far as I could ascertain as to who their spokesman was to be, Ms. Hillary Rodham," Adams said. She went on to describe Rodham as "good-humored, good company and a good friend to all of us."

Sen. Edward Brooke, R-Mass., delivers a speech in 1968. He was the special guest speaker for Wellesley's commencement in 1969.

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When she stepped to the lectern, Rodham didn't go directly to her prepared remarks. She spoke extemporaneously instead:

"I'm very glad that Ms. Adams made it clear that what I am speaking for today is all of us. The 400 of us. And I find myself in a familiar position, that of reacting. Something that our generation has been doing for quite a while now. We're not in the positions yet of leadership and power, but we do have that indispensable element of criticizing and constructive protest."

She broke from her script to react to Sen. Brooke's remarks.

"This has to be very quick because I do have a little speech to give. Part of the problem with just empathy with professed goals is that empathy doesn't do us anything. We've had lots of empathy; we've had lots of sympathy, but we feel that for too long our leaders have viewed politics as the art of the possible. And the challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible possible."

Schechter, her adviser, was surprised and impressed with how Rodham ad-libbed and then seamlessly moved back into her prepared remarks.

"She was able to go from one to the other without pausing at all," Schechter said. "I was particularly impressed with the skill, with the articulateness that she demonstrated."

And when it was over, others were impressed too. She got a standing ovation, from her classmates at least.

"And that was both in support of the speech and in support of her for going up there and taking it on for us," her classmate Acheson recalled.

The Reaction
But Schechter says not everyone was so pleased with Rodham's performance.

"The administration was not happy afterwards, or at least some people were not happy," Schechter said, "because they felt it was inappropriate for a student to criticize the commencement speaker."

Acheson says Rodham felt she had a responsibility to call out the senator's remarks as insufficient to the moment. But in 1969, it was surprising that a student, a young

 

[Disir]

Holy shit, man. That's going to be the game changer for sure.

 

[francoHFW]

Those were the days, my friend...Bad wars cause a lot of energy...lol

 

[coldjoint]

It looks like she is "a victim of circus pants".

 

[The Irish Ram]

I didn't know she was in Chicago, sort of by coincidence, and got angry at graduation by Brooke's speech.

She was there with Sir Edmund Hillary...

 

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Even so, the killing of Dr. King created “a sense of disorder that was both unsettling and catalyzing” to Ms. Rodham, recalled Mr. Schechter, the political science professor and a mentor to her. Friends observed that she was less restrained and less deferential after Dr. King’s death.

At a panel discussion for a group of Wellesley alumni in mid-April, Mrs. Clinton bemoaned the “large gray mass” of uninvolved students. At another meeting, she argued with an economics professor who suggested that the strike take place on a weekend.

“I’ll give up my date Saturday night, Mr. Goldman, but I don’t think that’s the point,” Ms. Rodham told the professor, Marshall Goldman, according to the April 25, 1968, Wellesley News. “Individual consciences are fine but individual consciences have to be made manifest. Why do these attitudes have to be limited to two days?”

Ms. Rodham had traveled to New Hampshire several times that winter to volunteer for Mr. McCarthy, the Minnesota Democrat challenging President Lyndon B. Johnson for the Democratic nomination. Mr. McCarthy’s message — that the antiwar movement should operate within the system, not on the streets — appealed to Ms. Rodham. The candidate urged his supporters to be respectful, prompting the young activists to cut their hair, shave their beards and be “Clean for Gene.” That summer, Ms. Rodham took to the streets herself, albeit as a safe observer. While home in Park Ridge, she and a friend, Betsy Johnson, kept hearing about all the commotion downtown at the Democratic Convention. They drove Ms. Johnson’s parents’ station wagon into Chicago to view the spectacle.

“We thought we had seen all there was to see in our sheltered neighborhood,” recalled Betsy Johnson Eberling, another former Goldwater Girl. “It was a radicalizing experience for us, to some extent.”

Mrs. Clinton has said repeatedly how “shocked” she was at the brutality she witnessed — protesters throwing rocks, police officers beating protesters — but describes the bedlam with almost scholarly detachment. In her memoir, “Living History,” she recalls spending hours that summer arguing with a friend over the “meaning of revolution and whether our country would face one.” Even if there was a revolution, the two friends concluded, “we would never participate.”

Keeping a Toe in the G.O.P.

For all her leftward movement, Ms. Rodham still kept a toe in the Republican Party, working as an intern in Washington that summer. Mr. Schechter, who supervised the Wellesley internship program, sent her to work for the House Republican Conference, then headed by Mr. Laird, the Wisconsin congressman who would later become President Richard Nixon’s defense secretary. “My adviser said, ‘I’m still going to assign you to the Republicans because I want you to understand completely what your own transformation represents,” Mrs. Clinton recalled of Mr. Schechter.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/05/us/politics/05clinton.html

 

[francoHFW]

Also getting positive about Trump...

 

[francoHFW]

Holy shit, man. That's going to be the game changer for sure.

Could be for you, ignoramus. lol

 

[francoHFW]

Myself, my eyes were opened at Hobart College -see Animal House- after Kent State, and later when we had a semi-riot- no violence- when about 500 students captured the only FBI agent provocateur ever caught, from 1 AM til 6AM exam week. As an FBI agent, he was head of the SDS of Upstate NY, and got 2 freshman to firebomb the ROTC office. Cover of Esquire, 2 five minute reports by Charles Kuralt on CBS. But no follow up by Nixon Justice Dept. He may well have had something to do with the KLent State firebombing. Very violent POS a-hole lol. Google Tommy the traveller.

 

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More interesting about Trump now, as the Clinton story is well known- except by GOP dupes, of course...

 

[The Irish Ram]

Yeah, she's a peach.


All she had to do was destroy a little girl.. So much for her new ad about always being an advocate for the children.

 

[francoHFW]

Yeah, she's a peach.

Thanks for the bs propaganda. She laughed when she said polygraphs suqed, dupe. Not what you chumps think. And she quit defending scum. NEXT!

 

[francoHFW]

Yeah, she's a peach.

Thanks for the bs propaganda. She laughed when she said polygraphs suqed, dupe. Not what you chumps think. And she quit defending scum. NEXT!

Yeah, she's a peach.

Thanks for the bs propaganda. She laughed when she said polygraphs suqed, dupe. Not what you chumps think. And she quit defending scum. NEXT!

Lawyers are required to defend as hard as they can. Then she quit being a defense lawyer.

 

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Meanwhile paid himself 44 million/year and other shytte while his casinos collapsed and screwed everyone involved. 4 business bankruptcies. Lovely.

 

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"Trump became a human shingle and joke that was only turned around by The Apprentice". OK great but...lol. Just a brand really lol...

 

[coldjoint]

I didn't know she was in Chicago, sort of by coincidence, and got angry at graduation by Brooke's speech.

She was there with Sir Edmund Hillary...

That is who she said she was named after until someone figured out she was born before he climbed Everest. Then oops.

 

[The Irish Ram]

Nursing the wounded. That's funny.
She's a regular Clara Barton...

And such a sparkling personality:

“Good morning, ma’am,” a member of the uniformed Secret Service once greeted Hillary Clinton.

“F*** off,” she replied.

That exchange is one among many that active and retired Secret Service agents shared with Ronald Kessler, author of First Family Detail, a compelling look at the intrepid personnel who shield America’s presidents and their families — and at those whom they guard.
Kessler writes flatteringly and critically about people in both parties. Regarding the Clintons, Kessler presents Chelsea as a model protectee who respected and appreciated her agents. He describes Bill as a difficult chief executive, but an easygoing ex-president. And Kessler exposes Hillary as an epically abusive Arctic monster.

 

[Rustic]

Documentary is about both Trump and Hillary. The more you know.... Her celebrity got Bill's attention, started her attraction to politics. Trump was scummy of course.

http://time.com/3502935/life-with-hillary-portraits-of-a-wellesley-grad-1969

...and she's loopy kunt