Hillary Clinton has a lot of firsts in her repertoire. She was the first first lady who was also a lawyer and had an active career. Another thing is that she is the first female senator from New York to have held an elected office while or after serving as a first lady. Also, she was the first female chair of the Legal Services Corporation and the first female partner at Rose Law Firm, which is the third oldest law firm in the United States.(source)
14 Hillary Clinton is the only first lady to be subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury.
The Whitewater scandal involved the investigation of the involvement of Clintons. Hillary and Bill Clinton along with their associates Jim and Susan McDougal were investors in a failed real estate business venture during the 1970s and 1980s called Whitewater Development Corporation. Two allegations were raised against Hillary Clinton during that time. The first one was that she pressured an Arkansas businessman to make a loan that would benefit him and the owners of Madison Guaranty. The second one was that these transactions were concealed. In May 1994, the former president and his wife were subpoenaed for all the related documents with a deadline of 30 days.(source)
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15 Hillary Clinton, on the advice of her psychologist, used to hold imaginary conversations with former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt to cope with the stress and expectations of being a first lady and a politician.
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During her husband’s term as a president, Hillary struggled to make sense of her role as the first lady “as she swung between New Age feminist and national housewife”. So, one of her past mentors and psychologist Jean Houston suggested her to seek guidance from her hero, Eleanor Roosevelt. He encouraged her to open herself up by talking to the former first lady to look at her own capabilities and understand her place in history. He also suggested talking to Gandhi and Jesus Christ, but she declined to do that with the latter one.(source)
16 During a visit to Alexandria, Egypt, in 2012, Hillary Clinton was pelted with shoes and tomatoes by protesters chanting “Monica, Monica”, referring to the scandal involving her husband, Bill Clinton.
The incident took place when Clinton visited Egypt and spoke at the newly reopened U.S. Consulate in Alexandria. It was not clear who the protesters were or what their political affiliations were, but the night before she gave her speech, they were chanting slogans outside the hotel she stayed and accusing the United States of taking the side of Muslim Brotherhood. The next day they were throwing tomatoes, shoes, and even a water bottle chanting the name Monica.(source)
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17 Hillary Clinton once out-drank her Republican rival, John McCain, in a vodka drinking contest.
In 2004, when Clinton and Jon McCain were on a congressional tour in Estonia, they both indulged in a little vodka drinking contest at a restaurant in the country’s capital city of Tallinn. Though the incident was dismissed as a rumor, Clinton’s campaign manager and the proprietor of the restaurant said that the two political leaders did indeed have the contest and that Hillary won after four shots. (source)
18 While campaigning in southern states, Hillary adopts a southern accent.
Though Hillary Clinton was born in Chicago, she lived for 20 years in Arkansas, a southeastern state in the US, when her husband was the governor. Apparently, whenever she goes to the southern states, her accent tends to become more southern. However, many critics who were quick to point it out call it her “black-cent” and accuse her of patronizing her audience. Some even question whether it should be acceptable for someone to change their accent according to their audience.(source)
