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Some interesting previews:
Clinton s launch speech to focus on her mother s life - Annie Karni - POLITICO
After nearly two and a half decades in the glare of the public spotlight, Hillary Clinton will reintroduce herself on Saturday by highlighting her personal journey marked heavily by the deprivations faced by her own mother.
Starting with the story of her mother’s abusive and traumatic childhood, Clinton will explain the role her family played in making her an advocate for other people, campaign officials told POLITICO, previewing the highly touted speech on New York’s Roosevelt Island that will set the tone for the rest of her campaign. (Chelsea and Bill Clinton will attend, but Bill Clinton will have no speaking role.)
That personal focus will be driven home by the release, shortly afterwards, of a biographical video about Clinton’s career as a fighter for the middle-class, dating back to her work for the Children’s Defense Fund after graduating from law school.
While Clinton has often spoken in recent months about her pride in becoming a grandmother, it is another matriarch, Dorothy Rodham, who will be the binding theme in her remarks Saturday...
Hillary Clinton channels Roosevelts in campaign rally - CNNPolitics.com
During the darkest hours of the Clinton presidency, those inside the besieged White House often took comfort in the legacies of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, whom they saw as "friendly spirits" shining through the political storm.
Now, Hillary Clinton is invoking the aura of the original Democratic power couple to give a historical and political lift to her second quest for the presidency, which enters a new stage on Saturday on New York's Roosevelt Island, where she holds her first formal campaign rally.
After an understated start to her 2016 campaign, beset by bad headlines and self-inflicted wounds, Clinton will make a bold statement of ambition by implying she is the direct heir to a leader whom historians consistently rank as one of the top three presidents and the greatest Democrat.
Clinton's decision to make her first major campaign speech in the shadow of a man who was president from 1933 to 1945, rather than in an early-voting state like Iowa or New Hampshire, may also start to answer the still-mysterious question of what her campaign will stand for.
At a time when America is again slowly digging out of an economic hole and facing peril overseas, the historical analogy will recall FDR's record as a supreme war leader, a working-class champion and a galvanizing force for a nation that had lost its verve.
"(Clinton) has long been inspired by FDR's belief that America is stronger when we summon the work and talents of all Americans," said Kristina Schake, Clinton's deputy communications director...
Clinton to hold first major rally in Roosevelt Island - CNNPolitics.com
(From June 2nd, 2015)
Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign will hold its first major rally on June 13 at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park in New York City. The speech will be on Roosevelt Island.
The event will be the first time Clinton headlines a rally since she entered the presidential race in April.
"Her speech will lay out her view of the challenges facing this country and her vision and ideas for moving the country forward," a Clinton aide said Monday.
Clinton aides had considered other locations for the speech, including the former secretary of state's Chicago birthplace or one of the early nominating states, but eventually settled on Roosevelt Island.
Clinton has been "inspired by FDR's belief that America is stronger when we summon the work and talents of all Americans and has long admired Eleanor Roosevelt as a role model," according to an aide...
..The rally will also be the first time former President Bill Clinton and Chelsea Clinton appear at a campaign event, according to senior campaign aides.
After the rally, Clinton plans to visit all four early nominating states in the span of six days...
...Clinton will visit Iowa on June 13 and 14, New Hampshire on June 15, South Carolina on June 17 and Nevada on June 18, the aide said.
Clinton first event in Iowa will be a simulcast discussion with organizers on the ground in the first-in-the-nation caucus state. According to the aide, the speech will be simulcast to organizing meetings in almost all of the United States' 435 congressional districts.
FYI.
Please notice that she picked June 15th, the day that Jeb Bush (R) is announcing his candidacy, to be in New Hampshire to campaign. I am sure this is not an accident. It's strategy.