New York Times
June 15, 1994
Speaking at a lunch on Capitol Hill honoring military women, Hillary Rodham Clinton said that she once visited a recruiting office in Arkansas to inquire about joining the Marines.
She was 27 then, she said, and the Marine recruiter was about 21. She was interested in joining either the active forces or the reserves, she recalled, but was swiftly rebuffed by the recruiter, who took a dim view of her age and her thick glasses. 'Not Very Encouraging'
"You're too old, you can't see and you're a woman," Mrs. Clinton said she was told, adding that the recruiter dismissed her by suggesting she try the Army. "Maybe the dogs would take you," she recalled the recruiter saying.
"It was not a very encouraging conversation," she said. "I decided maybe I'll look for another way to serve my country."
Mrs. Clinton offered the story to illustrate how far women had come. She said that "it was not an isolated situation" for women to be turned away by military recruiters. And she lauded efforts to bring women into more aspects of military service.
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Mrs. Clinton told friends that she had moved to Arkansas for only one reason: to be with Bill Clinton, whom she married that same year that she says she tried to join the marines, 1975, in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Before attempting to enlist in the marines, Mrs. Clinton had become a Yale law school graduate, and had worked on the anti-war Presidential campaigns of Eugene J. McCarthy and George McGovern.
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NY Times
October 2006
Hillary Clinton named after Sir Edmund Hillary?
The New York Times, which repeated the claim as fact in a story just one week ago, reported Sen. Clinton's campaign issued a correction yesterday.
"It was a sweet family story her mother shared to inspire greatness in her daughter, to great results I might add," said spokeswoman Jennifer Hanley.
For more than a decade, Sen. Clinton's informal biography repeated the story, and it was recounted in former President Bill Clinton's 2004 autobiography, "My Life."
The problem with the tale, however, is one of timing. Sir Edmund and his Sherpa guide, Tenzing Norgay, became known to the world only in 1953, after becoming the first men to reach Everest's summit. Sen. Clinton was born in 1947. In 1947, when Hillary was born, Sir Edmund was an unknown beekeeper, but Clinton had explained her mother read about him in a publication while pregnant and liked the name.
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Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 11, 1999; Page C01
The first lady--oh, yeah, and her husband, the president--hosted the 1998 World Series champion New York Yankees on the South Lawn yesterday. What curious timing, this visit by the Yankees--it comes eight months after they won the World Series but only days after Hillary Rodham Clinton announced she was forming an exploratory committee to run for a New York seat in the U.S. Senate.
On yesterday's "Today" show, host Katie Couric, Clinton first about the New York Knicks--currently battling in the NBA playoffs--and then about the Yankees.
Clinton asserted that she'd "always been a Yankees fan." Couric correctly challenged her, saying she thought the first lady, a native of Illinois, was a Chicago Cubs fan.
"I am a Cubs fan," Clinton said. "But I needed an American League team . . . so as a young girl, I became very interested and enamored of the Yankees."
Next day, New York Mayor Giuliani said, "Funny, I haven't seen her at a Yankee game. I've been at Yankee Stadium maybe 1,000 times and I haven't seen Mrs. Clinton."
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