Thread by @SusanBordo

THREAD: Just a few highlights:

. Founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
• Staff attorney for Children’s Defense Fund
• Twice listed by the National Law Journal as one of the hundred most influential lawyers in America
• Arkansas Woman of the Year in 1983
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• Chair of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession
• Instrumental in passage of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program
• Helped create the Office on Violence Against Women at the Department of Justice
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• Initiated and shepherded the Adoption and Safe Families Act
• Traveled to seventy-nine countries during time as FLOTUS
• Helped create Vital Voices, an international initiative to promote the participation of women in the political processes of their countries. 3/

• Helped create the Children’s Insurance Program
• Delivered one of the most quoted human rights speeches of all time in Bejing, China
• As Senator for New York, served on five Senate committees.
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• Took a leading role in the investigation of health consequences of first responders and drafted the first bill to compensate and offer the health services our first responders deserve (Clinton’s successor in the Senate, Kirsten Gillibrand, passed the bill). 5/

• In the aftermath of September 11th, worked closely with her senior Senate counterpart from New York, Senator Charles Schumer, on securing $21.4 billion in funding for the World Trade Center redevelopment. 6/

. Proposed a revival of the New Deal–era Home Owners’ Loan Corporation to help homeowners refinance their mortgages in the wake of the 2008 financial disaster
• Brokered a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel
• Brokered human rights agreement with Burma
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• Was the most traveled US Secretary of State to date.
• As SOS, made LGBTQ rights a focus of foreign policy
• As SOS, worked aggressively on issue of climate change
• GRAMMY Award Winner
• Author of best-selling books 8/

FIRST (AND STILL THE ONLY) WOMAN TO BE NOMINATED BY A NATIONAL POLITICAL PARTY FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. 66 MILLION VOTES CAST; WON THE POPULAR VOTE BY 3 MILLION. 9/

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