when she was 3 years old, the family moved to the suburb of park ridge. hillary s father had a small business and they had a comfortable life but they were decidedly middle class. hugh rodham was a tough minded republican and devout methodist. dorothy was a former secretary who dreamt of a brilliant career for her first born. when hillary was 5 years old, she went out to the schoolyard and she was playing with a little girl who called her names. and she went back to her mother, and her mother said, you go right back out there and give her what for. and she went back out and punched the girl in the nose. they started pushing me around, and i pushed back. it was a particularly good lesson, i think, for a girl in those days to be told you cannot let life do this to you. her mother, dorothy s, experience being essentially abandoned by her family, enduring real hardship in her childhood. and she was very close to her mother, and i think it taught her a lot of grit.
when she was 3 years old, the family moved to the suburb of park ridge. hillary s father had a small business and they had a comfortable life but they were decidedly middle class. hugh rodham was a tough minded republican and devout methodist. dorothy was a former secretary who dreamt of a brilliant career for her first born. when hillary was 5 years old, she went out to the schoolyard and she was playing with a little girl who called her names. and she went back to her mother, and her mother said, you go right back out there and give her what for. and she went back out and punched the girl in the nose. they started pushing me around, and i pushed back. it was a particularly good lesson, i think, for a girl in those days to be told you cannot let life do this to you. her mother, dorothy s, experience being essentially abandoned by her family, enduring real hardship in her childhood. and she was very close to her mother, and i think it taught her a lot of grit.
1947 in chicago. she was the first child and only daughter of dorothy and hugh rodham. the family moved to the suburb of park ridge. hillary s father had a small business and they had a comfortable life but they were decidedly middle class. hugh rodham was a tough republican and devout methodist. dorothy was a former secretary who dreamt of a brilliant career for her first born. when hillary was 5 years old, she went out to the schoolyard and she was playing with a little girl who called her names. and she went back to her mother, and her mother said, you go right back out there and give her what for. and she went back out and punched the girl in the nose. they started pushing me around, and i pushed back. it was a particularly good lesson, i think, for a girl in those days to be told you cannot let life do this to you. her mother, dorothy s, experience being essentially abandoned by her family, enduring real hardship in her
i m hillary clinton and aapprove this message. you covered the clinton white house. what are your thoughts on the ad? hillary clinton hasn t changed all that much since i covered her as first lady in 2008 when she was running before. it s all in the packaging and the emphasis here. we did see her mother dorothy, the last time she ran and she was a special part of the campaign. but i have to say she wasn t a big large part of the campaign or the messaging for that matter. we actually saw something that was more the emphasis of the diplomatic leader the traveler as first lady the person who was ready to take that 2:00 in the morning phone call the can-do person ready to lead at a moment s notice. it was not the mom, the grandmother, that kind of image. it s clear that she s trying to appeal to women. she s trying to appeal to the mad rate moderates, the independents and she needs those people to feel she s trust worthy and somebody they can count on and depend on and is
in some ways joe biden s candidacy was seen if something happened with the hillary clinton campaign he would be on the shelf there and able to jump in. that looks like what they re thinking about, i think, the issue there is everything laid out there. the family might want him to run. there s not a groundswell of support among democratic grassroots. how do you excite people to get out and on board especially the later you jump in. talking about hillary clinton she s released her first ad for 2016. one of them she pays tribute to her late mother dorothy. i want to play part of that. when she needed a champion someone was there. i think about all the dorothys all over america who fight for their families who never give up. that s why i m doing this. that s why i have always done this. for all the dorothy s.