🎈Happy 78th Birthday, Hillary Rodham Clinton

[Niagara]

Hillary posted this on Facebook this morning. It's not like I exactly knew it was her birthday today.

I often wonder if she's aware how much she is appreciated.






The 2nd photo is one that I have stored on Imgur.

[2naSalit]

1. Happy 78th, Madam Secretary!

[FullySupportDems]

2. Happy Birthday wishes to who should have been our first female president

She would have been SO much better for our country, and the world. I'll always appreciate her for trying. And be jealous of how pretty she is.

[FemDemERA]

3. Happy Birthday!

[electric_blue68]

4. Happy Birthday, Mdme Secretary! 🩷

[betsuni]

5. A doer, the first person you'd ask for help because she'd pick up the phone and get the ball rolling. Talk is cheap.

"When I was young and trying to decide what to do with my life, 'do all the good' provided a guide. In 1970, as an intern for Marian Wright Edelman [Children's Defense Fund], I attended Senate hearings on the mistreatment of migrant farmworkers by large corporations and ran into several classmates from Yale Law School who had summer jobs at fancy white-shoe law firms. They told me they were learning how to buff up a corporate client's dented reputation. ... I told them the best way for their clients to improve their image would be to treat their workers better.

"Instead of corporate law, I decided in law school to focus on how the law could better protect children and families. I started consulting with the medical staff at Yale New Haven Hospital about child abuse, a problem in the early 1970s that was first starting to be acknowledged. ... I was horrified. Could I stomach being a children's advocate in a society that allowed kids to be abused and exploited like this? Do all the good. That's what propelled me to a life of service, doing all the good I could in all the ways I could. As Marian often said, 'Service is the rent we pay for living.'

"Later, when I became First Lady, senator, and secretary of state, my horizons were wider, and there were more ways to do good and in more places. I traveled the world, speaking out for human rights and women's rights, working to make peace and fight poverty. ... People would ask me: Why are you spending your time worrying about an LGBTQ+ activist in Uganda or helping women in India get cleaner cookstoves? Why are you going to places like little Togo, in West Africa, where no secretary of state had ever been before? ... I may no longer be a government official. ... But I can still try to do a lot of good. ... Teaching young people. Helping Afghan women escape persecution. Working with women bearing the brunt of climate change. Supporting candidates and causes on the front lines of democracy. ... I have no intention of slowing down. There's no retirement from doing good, no statute of limitations on our call to service."

From "Something Lost, Something Gained"

[peggysue2]

6. Could'a, would'a, should'a been President

A very fine president that would have been. We lost a grand opportunity. The boobie prize was Trump.

Happy B-Day, Madame Secretary. Here's hoping many more!