passion to massachusetts and went to work for her mentor, marion wright eddelman at the children's defense fund. >> my work at the children's defense fund showed me how much we needed to do to help abused and neglected kids, kids in adult jalz, kids with lousy schools, all kind of problems. i was fixated on what we could do as advocates to make changes. >> everything she did she did very well. i trusted her to send her out to do any bit of research, whether it was basic research or to go into the field. hillary was always a star. >> but soon, another opportunity emerged that gave hillary a front row seat to history. >> what did the president know and when did he know it? >> in 1974, hillary moved to washington, d.c. to work on the investigation into president nixon's impeachment and called her friend, sara irman, looking for a place to stay.