18 Little-Known Facts about Hillary Clinton that you must know
7 Hillary Clinton turned $1,000 into nearly $100,000 by trading in the volatile commodities futures market in 1978.
Within 10 months of trading, in 1978, Hillary Clinton was able to gain nearly $1000, 000 after investing $1,000 in the notorious volatile market of commodities futures. There have been many suggestions that the trades were actually risk-free and that she had an unfair advantage in the form of an Arkansas lawyer. To dispel the suggestions, the White House released a statement that it was her own money and she bore all the financial risks associated with the trade where three out of four investors lose money. The brokerage statements of her two bank accounts during that year were also released. At the recommendation of senior advisors of the former president and his wife, she stopped trading by 1980 because “she did not have the stomach for it and found it to be too nerve-racking”.(source)
8 Hillary Clinton was a member of the board of directors of Wal-Mart.
By the end of the 1980s, Hillary Clinton was already serving on the boards of Arkansas Children’s Hospital Legal Services, Children’s Defense Fund, TCBY, Lafarge, and Wal-Mart. She served on the corporate board of Wal-Mart, an Arkansas-based company, between 1986 and 1992, and was the first female member of the board. While she pushed successfully to adopt environmentally friendly practices there, she was unsuccessful in the campaign to bring in more women to the company’s management. She was also known to have been silent about the company’s anti-labor union practices.(source)
9 In 1988 and 1991, she was named as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America by National Law Journal, a periodical that reports legal information of national importance to attorneys.
Hillary Clinton had a long career as a lawyer, even while she was the first lady of Arkansas she did her job. She played an important role in policy making, examining appointments, and filling many positions in the administration during her husband’s term as the president of United States. While she was the first lady of Arkansas, she received many honors and awards including an honorary doctorate by the University of Arkansas at Little Rock as well as being named as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America by National Law Journal.(source)
10 Hillary Clinton’s senior thesis, a critique of the tactics of radical community organizer Saul Alinsky, was locked away by White House during the 8 years of Bill Clinton’s presidency.
The senior thesis Hillary Clinton wrote in political science has gained a mythic status among many of her critics because it was forbidden to read and locked away by the White House. In 1993, the Clintons have asked Wellesley College, where Hillary studied, to seal her thesis from the first generation of Clinton biographers. Following that, Wellesley’s president, Nannerl Overholser Keohane, approved a broad rule that stated that the senior thesis of every graduate is available for anyone to read in the college archives, except for those written by either a president or a first lady of the United States.(source)
11 Hillary Clinton hasn’t driven a car since 1996, which she confessed as one of the regrets about having a public life.
As a rule, even the former presidents and first ladies are under Secret Service protection for life after leaving office. While at the National Automobile Dealers Association meeting, Hillary Clinton disclosed that she quite missed driving on her own and that she hasn’t done so since 1996. She wasn’t the only public personality who doesn’t get to drive, and apparently they all miss it. Bill Clinton said he drives his golf cart during his golf outings to get his fill of driving and George W. Bush used to drive his pickup truck within the limits of his ranch in Texas before it was sold.(source)
12 In 1997, Hillary Clinton won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Album.
Hillary won the award by The Recording Academy for the audio version of her book It Takes a Village, under the category of Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Album. It was during the 39th annual Grammy Awards. The book was first published in 1996 under the title It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us, in which she gives her vision for the children in America.(source)
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