10 Facts about Hillary Clinton

10 Facts about Hillary Clinton:


1. Rather than being a politician, young Hillary Clinton wanted to become an astronaut, baseball player, and a journalist.


2. Hillary likes spicy foods. She puts hot sauce on almost every meal, even in a salad.


3. If you didn't know, Hillary won a Grammy back in 1996. It was for The Best Spoken Word Album for the audio version of her book, It Takes A Village.


4. She tried to join the Marines when she was 27 but got rejected for being too old and a woman. 


5. Hillary was once a senator and the first lady at the same time for 20 days.


6. National Law Journal noted her among the 100 most influential lawyers in America- both in 1988 and 1991.


7. She attends a separate church from her husband. Born and raised a Methodist, she didn’t abandon her roots when she married Bill, who is a Southern Baptist.


8. She was director of Wal-Mart for six years and used her position to champion liberal policies.


9. She out earned her husband several times over when he was serving as the governor of Arkansas. In 1991, Hillary cashed $188,000 worth of paychecks as a lawyer at a private firm, while Bill made considerably less working in government.


10. She gutted fish at a processing plant in Alaska one summer during her law school years. It was her job to scoop out entrails, but the plant soon fired her for asking too many questions about how long the fish had been dead.


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