[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 135 (Friday, August 11, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Pages S12350-S12359]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


   NYU SCHOOL OF LAW'S TRIBUTES TO FIRST LADY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON

  Mr. KENNEDY. Mr. President, the 1995 Annual Survey of American Law, 
published by the New York University School of Law, is dedicated to 
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and contains a series of tributes 
that emphasize her remarkable ability, leadership, and contributions to 
public service throughout her career.
  I believe that the tributes will be of interest to all of us in 
Congress who have worked with Mrs. Clinton and to millions of others 
throughout the country who admire her service to the Nation. She is a 
powerful voice for justice and opportunity, and I ask unanimous consent 
that the tributes may be printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the tributes were ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:
 [Tributes to First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, 1995 Annual Survey of 
            American Law, New York University School of Law]

                  Dedication to Hillary Rodham Clinton

 (Introductory remarks on behalf of the Annual Survey Board of Editors 
 at the Hillary Rodham Clinton Dedication Ceremony, April 25, 1995, by 
                Lauren Aguiar, Managing Editor, 1994-95)

       I don't have the advantage of the previous speakers, all of 
     whom possess a unique and personal vantage point on Hillary 
     Rodham Clinton. Yet even though I don't know her, it still 
     seems possible somehow to speak about her with equal passion 
     and conviction. When someone like Hillary Rodham Clinton is 
     the object of praise, someone who is so much a part of our 
     national consciousness and culture, it is easy to pay 
     tribute.
       In explaining what prompted the Editors of Annual Survey to 
     invite Hillary Rodham Clinton to be our Dedicatee, I'd like 
     to share with you a book which I read several years ago by 
     anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson, the daughter of 
     Margaret Mead. The book, entitled Composing A Life, explores 
     the act of creation that engages us all--the composition of 
     our own lives. Through the comparative biographies of five 
     women, Bateson develops a novel theory about how to assess 
     and value contemporary living.
       The author invites us to view life as an improvisational 
     art form: that transitions, diverse priorities, and 
     challenges are not merely a part of our lives, but should be 
     seen as a source of wisdom and empowerment. The book explains 
     how, in modern times, it is no longer possible to follow the 
     paths of previous generations. Our energies are often not 
     narrowly focused on achieving a single goal, but are more 
     divided needing to be continually rebalanced and redefined.
       I refer to this book, and Bateson's theory, to illustrate 
     the strength and diversity of Hillary Rodham Clinton's life. 
     The Editors selected her as this year's Dedicatee because she 
     serves as an example of the successful composition of a life, 
     and as a role-model for those who will encounter the 
     complexities of modern-day living.
       When faced with needing to divide her energies--between 
     family, work, and public service--Hillary Rodham Clinton has 
     inevitably achieved an artful balance. She has managed 
     priorities and combined her multiple commitments.
       Because we live in a society which is often recalcitrant to 
     accept change, people are frequently admonished for 
     innovation and self-reformation. In our estimation, though, 
     this flexibility demonstrates strength of character and 
     wisdom. Hillary Rodham Clinton has adjusted quickly, finding 
     ways to affirm herself and her skills in new environments.
       In order to advance her convictions, she has remained 
     flexible in the complex world of politics and the law, while 
     holding firm in her fundamental resolve. Certain that her 
     values and her choices are important, she has adhered to the 
     goals of improving education for children, establishing legal 
     services for the poor, creating opportunities for women, and 
     providing health care for all.
       Rather than pursuing a route already defined and 
     established, she has practiced stepping off the expected road 
     and cutting herself a new path. By redefining traditional 
     notions of women and their place in this world, Hillary 
     Rodham Clinton has neither played it safe, nor lived a life 
     free of risk. In doing so, she has emerged not only 
     successful and productive, but as an essential figure in the 
     unabating struggle for equality.
       Although Hillary Rodham Clinton's accomplishments and 
     choices may be particularly encouraging and motivational for 
     women, they are equally applicable to all people. Each of us 
     has something to learn from how she has composed her life; 
     she upholds her values and pursues her aspirations in a way 
     which serves as an inspiration to us all.
       In many ways, law school teaches us to play it safe, to 
     make calculated and planned decisions about our lives and to 
     execute that plan. The model for an ordinary, successful life 
     offered to us is one of a single rising trajectory, and of 
     focused ambition that follows a predetermined track. After 
     graduating from law school, we are expected to take a job 
     that symbolizes the first step on a sole, ascending ladder. 
     In this day and age, though, I am not convinced that these 
     assumptions will be, or should be, valid for many of us. As 
     our lives unfold, we need a new and fluid way to imagine the 
     future, and looking to the life of Hillary Rodham Clinton 
     helps us to gain this insight.
       From her example, we can draw an appreciation of a lawyer 
     who has not been afraid to change or explore new prospects. 
     She has worn many professional labels, always proceeding to 
     new situations with graceful transitions. As a member of the 
     faculty at Arkansas she made contributions to the academic 
     and clinical world of law, as a member of a prominent firm 
     she excelled in private practice, and as a mother she managed 
     a home and cared for her family. As an advocate for children, 
     she has continually sought the public good, and as First Lady 
     of the United States, she has navigated the world of 
     politics, the media, and policy making.
       When young people so often lament the scarcity of positive 
     role models, Hillary Rodham Clinton is someone from whom we 
     can learn, and derive empowerment to realize our 
     possibilities. 

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       As Annual Survey's 52nd Dedicatee, Hillary Rodham Clinton 
     joins the esteemed company of Harry Blackmun, Barbara Jordan, 
     William Wayne Justice, Judith Kaye and Thurgood Marshall, to 
     name just a few.
       In dedicating this year's volume to Hillary Rodham Clinton, 
     we not only note her achievements, but praise her courage and 
     conviction.
       I am honored to introduce to you a woman who has composed a 
     revolutionary life in many ways--as attorney, public servant, 
     mother, policy maker, and First Lady--Hillary Rodham Clinton.
                                                                    ____


Remarks of Professor Richard Atkinson, Leflar Law Center, University of 
                                Arkansas

       The work and heart of Hillary Rodham Clinton are happily 
     coincident in her chief contributions to the law in Arkansas. 
     The interests of women and children hold a primary claim on 
     her emotions, and it is precisely in these areas that her 
     legal legacy to the state is most significant. Her public 
     commitment to these concerns has a long history and promises 
     to extend indefinitely into the future.
       By 1972, when she was still a law student, Hillary had 
     already worked one summer with the Children's Defense Fund 
     and had begun her association with the Yale Child Study 
     Center. Twenty-three years later and less than a month prior 
     to this writing, with her daughter at her side and the 
     world's attention upon them both, Hillary was in Asia, still 
     in the process of educating both herself and others about the 
     problems faced by women and children.
       In 1975 Hillary and Bill met me at the airport on my first 
     trip to Fayetteville, Arkansas, and immediately took me to a 
     volleyball tournament involving law faculty and students. 
     Between games, students were sharing their excitement about 
     participating in the University of Arkansas Legal Clinic, a 
     newly-instituted program which gave law students hands-on 
     experience and provided counsel to students and 
     representation to people unable to afford an attorney.
       Though the clinic was on the drawing board before she 
     arrived, Hillary, as its first director, gave it life. 
     Without diminishing the clinic's effectiveness, she 
     skillfully designed the structure to minimize the opposition 
     voiced by some members of the local bar who viewed it as a 
     potential competitor for fees. Through the professionalism 
     and thoroughness she inspired in the students, she won over 
     the judges who were initially concerned about allowing 
     students to be advocates in their courts. The program also 
     benefitted from the reputation she quickly established, 
     through her own court appearances, as an extraordinarily 
     effective lawyer.
       The windows of my law school office face the handsome 
     building into which the clinic has recently moved. I more 
     than occasionally glance at the folks entering the clinic and 
     enjoy the thought that for more than two decades these 
     clients, predominately women, have been finding assistance 
     from an institution Hillary helped to shape. I could 
     duplicate the experience if I were across town, observing the 
     activity at Ozark Legal Services. There, too, she played a 
     critical role in its inception while on the law faculty. 
     Later, in 1976, President Carter appointed Hillary to the 
     board of the
      Legal Services Corporation. She pushed hard for expanded 
     access by the poor to legal assistance, drawing heavily on 
     her experience in setting up both the University of 
     Arkansas Legal Clinic and Ozark Legal Services. Now, in 
     part because of her efforts, in country after country 
     across the nation, the scene from my window is, at least 
     for the moment, daily repeated.
       In addition to such institutional impact, she also 
     significantly influenced the law through the attitudinal 
     changes she engendered. Many of her students have now assumed 
     significant leadership roles as judges, lawyers and 
     legislators, and none passed through her classroom 
     unaffected, especially in regard to two areas. First, her 
     high expectations of the students raised their expectations 
     of themselves. Hillary was no less demanding of herself then, 
     without the pressure of the White House glare, as she is now. 
     And by both example and exhortation, she made it clear that 
     she expected others to push toward their potential as well. 
     In particular she had no patience with the argument, 
     occasionally voiced then, that she was importing standards 
     which were inappropriate for Arkansans, and I believe that 
     she succeeded in dispelling, in most instances, that 
     pernicious notion.
       Second, she was a role model. There, I've said it, though 
     award that the phrase is daily less fashionable. But we're 
     talking the seventies here, and for anyone who was there, 
     that is exactly what she was. Word was out that she was a 
     tough litigator, that she had played a significant role in 
     the Watergate hearings, that she had a Yale law degree, and 
     that she could have gotten virtually any legal job she 
     wanted. They saw that she was smart as hell and was in 
     complete control of both her classroom and her subject 
     matter. Their contact with Hillary was for many of these 
     students, male and female alike, a catalyst that triggered a 
     rethinking of the roles they assigned to ``lady lawyers''.
       When Bill was elected Attorney General in 1976, they moved 
     to Little Rock, and the lawyers and judges there were no more 
     immune to her ability to confound conceptions than were their 
     counterparts in Fayetteville. She joined the Rose Law Firm 
     and consciously set out to hone further her skills as a 
     litigator. In short order she became the firm's first female 
     partner and helped to create opportunities for other women 
     lawyers across the state.
       Ultimately specializing in commercial litigation, Hillary 
     savored its competitiveness, appreciated the living it 
     provided, and both enjoyed and deeply respected her 
     colleagues at the firm. That work, however, did not fully 
     engage her emotionally. It was not her mission. She continued 
     to take cases involving children's rights, devoted 
     considerable energy to the formation of Arkansas Advocates 
     for Children and Family, took a leadership role on the board 
     of the Children's Defense Fund, and actively participated 
     with her husband in thinking about how they could help 
     address the significant social and economic problems Arkansas 
     faced.
       In November 1980, Bill was seeking election to his second 
     term as governor. On election day, Hillary came to 
     Fayetteville to vote and to work the five o`clock shift 
     change at the Standard Register Company. I drove her back to 
     the airport. Unsuspecting of the impending defeat. Hillary 
     was tired, ready for the campaign to be concluded, and eager, 
     she said, to get back to work. The work she had in mind was 
     not her law practice, though she was thankful it would be 
     there. Rather it was for her the reviving process of using 
     her talents to improve the lives of women and children.
       After an electorally enforced two-year hiatus, Bill 
     returned to the governor's office, and Hillary began the work 
     that would become, in my opinion, her single greatest 
     contribution to Arkansas. In his inaugural address in January 
     1983, Bill singled out educational reform as the critical 
     component in any plan to improve Arkansas' economic future. 
     He then appointed Hillary as the chairperson of the Arkansas 
     Education Standards Committee, a commission he created to 
     devise a set of minimum standards for public schools. Her 
     task was two-fold: to craft the standards and to create a 
     public consensus about their desirability in order to make a 
     tax increase to implement them politically feasible.
       She held hearings across the state, both gathering 
     information and dispensing it. If there is a high school gym 
     in Arkansas where she did not meet the public, I am unaware 
     of it. Her extraordinary knowledge, her exceptional skills as 
     a facilitator, and, most important, the depth of her 
     conviction about the rightness of this project galvanized 
     public opinion. Less than eleven months after the creation of 
     the standards committee. Arkansans passed a sales tax 
     increase to fund the standards, which included minimum class 
     sizes (no more, for example, than twenty students in a 
     kindergarten class), a longer school year, a much lower 
     counselor/student ratio, and enhanced curricular offerings, 
     especially in the areas of science and math.
       Back to my office window. A month ago, before the leaves 
     intervened, I could see, to the left of the Clinic and a few 
     hundred yards behind it, Leverett Elementary School. There 
     too, Hillary is still at work.
       In 1985 Hillary brought to Arkansas a preschool program 
     that had impressed her on a trip to Israel five years 
     earlier. The Home Instruction Program for Preschool 
     Youngsters, known as HIPPY, was a logical extension of her 
     work on the standards. She had found that a critical 
     determinate of a child's performance in school is the 
     educational level of the mother. HIPPY involves home 
     visitations by teams of educators to show impoverished 
     mothers how best to teach their preschool children in the 
     home. It continues to be an enormously successful program.
       Hillary has a good friend, Dr. Robert A. Leflar, who was 
     her former law faculty colleague and who has a special 
     connection to New York University. In fact, she lived in his 
     Fayetteville home one summer when he was teaching, as he did 
     for decades, at NYU's Appellate Judges Seminar, which he was 
     instrumental in creating. At 94, he is the towering figure in 
     the history of legal education and reform in Arkansas and 
     ranks respectably among the great legal minds of the nation 
     in this country. His autobiography, ONE LIFE IN THE LAW, 
     modestly recounts his immersion in those pursuits. The 
     definitive biography of Hillary will surely recount a similar 
     immersion and a similar effectiveness.
       The nation is now the beneficiary of the intellect, spirit, 
     and commitment that continues to enrich Arkansas through the 
     people and institutions Hillary Rodham Clinton touched. ``How 
     do these decisions affect women and children?'' has become a 
     refrain in the Clinton Administration. This is not an 
     accident.
                                                                    ____

   Remarks of Lloyd M. Bentsen, Former Secretary of the Treasury and 
                         United States Senator

       It's a privilege to join in this tribute to Mrs. Clinton, a 
     First Lady Americans know for her first-rate intellect, her 
     engaging personality, and her commitment to serving the 
     public.
       B.A. and I have known eight First Ladies. I think each one 
     has felt her job was the best job in America.
       Over the last 40 years, each has followed a great 
     tradition, using her special office to highlight a need in 
     our country or help others improve their lot. They've all 
     made contributions, as Americans would expect them to.
       But I can't recall ever seeing anyone so committed to an 
     issue and anyone work with the intensity and feeling that 
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     and the President did this past year on health care. When Congress 
     reforms this country's health care system, we'll have Mrs. 
     Clinton to thank.
       The President often says we live in a time of change, and 
     Mrs. Clinton--because she's been a working mother and an 
     extraordinary lawyer--has changed the role of a First Lady.
       She still maintains the great traditions. I've seen her at 
     State Dinners, serve as a gracious hostess in America's most 
     honored home. I've seen her raise funds for charities, and 
     work with children who need special help, as every other 
     First Lady before her has done.
       But she also has taken on added responsibilities. I had 
     never been in a policy meeting with a First Lady, until Mrs. 
     Clinton entered the White House. I watched the President, in 
     his moments of decision making, turn to her for advice and 
     counsel in areas she's the expert on.
       They're partners. They're a team. And their collective 
     wisdom guides our country.
       In a different time, this may not have worked. If Mrs. 
     Clinton wasn't as talented as she is, it may not have worked. 
     Knowing human nature, some of the people in the room would 
     probably have played to her, thinking through her, they can 
     get to the President.
       I believe as more couples have two careers, and as more 
     women enter public service, Mrs. Clinton serves as an 
     inspiration to them.
       She has a huge fan club in this country, and B.A. and I are 
     proud to be among the admirers. You've picked a very worthy 
     lady and lawyer to honor.
                                                                    ____


 Remarks of Diane D. Blair, Professor of Political Science, University 
                              of Arkansas

       In Carol Shield's recent novel The Stone Diaries, one 
     character observes, ``Life is an endless recruiting of 
     witnesses.'' When Hillary Rodham moved to Fayetteville in 
     1975, to teach at the University of Arkansas, nobody was 
     consciously ``recruiting witnesses.'' Rather, as two of only 
     a handful of female faculty members, she in law and I in 
     political science, we quickly discovered many strong mutual 
     interests (books, politics, children, education, the status 
     of women) which drew us together and have sustained our 
     relationship ever since.
       However, as the friend with whom I once batted worn tennis 
     balls in the city park and rode in a truck moving furniture 
     became a national figure (and a media obsession), I have 
     frequently been called by the press to share my memories and 
     observations. At first, I was eager to do so: when one is 
     familiar with and enthusiastic about a subject, sharing is a 
     pleasure. And so I happily recalled instances of Hillary's 
     devotion to her own daughter and her abiding interest in my 
     five children; of her concern for her parents (and, again, 
     for mine); and of her knack for thoughtful acts of 
     friendship. I gave the inquiring press vivid vignettes 
     illustrating her determination to bring out the best from 
     each of her students when she was a teacher, and then her 
     resolve to excel in the courtroom as well as the classroom. I 
     gladly recounted the courage and wisdom and tenacity she 
     demonstrated in leading the battle for better schools in 
     Arkansas, working to upgrade Arkansas Children's Hospital, 
     and helping establish Arkansas Advocates for Children and 
     Families, and a statewide Single Parent Scholarship Fund.
       Little of which was ever reported, or even--I began to 
     suspect--recorded. As I enthused on about this attentive 
     parent, devoted daughter, fun-loving friend, supportive 
     spouse, talented teacher, advocate extraordinaire, the 
     clicking computer keys of my interviewer would slow, and 
     finally grow silent. And then, often, would come the 
     question: ``Yes, but what is she really like?''
       It may well take future historians, more interested in 
     telling the truth than in ``exposing'' imaginary evils, to 
     offer the complete portrait of Hillary Rodham Clinton; but 
     perhaps this dedication issue, contributed to by those who 
     actually know her work and her life, is a good contemporary 
     beginning. So, for the record, here are a few moments I have 
     ``witnessed'' since my friend became First Lady, and what I 
     think those incidents signify.
       President Clinton's first State of the Union Address, in 
     February, 1993, was a home-run, a thrilling triumph. 
     Afterwards, when aides and friends gathered in the Solarium 
     to toast a very sweet success, someone called for a special 
     salute to the First Lady, for whom the standing ovation from 
     Congress had seemed especially heartfelt and fervent. Hillary 
     was not there to receive the tribute, however. Upon returning 
     to the White House she learned that Chelsea needed help with 
     her homework, and so she had quickly excused herself from the 
     celebration and hastened to her daughter's side.
       In September, 1993, the national media gave rave reviews to 
     Hillary's marathon, flawless, sequential presentations before 
     U.S. Congressional Committees on health care reform. While I 
     was delighted to see some positive press for my friends in 
     the White House, two things struck me about these stories. 
     First, there was something almost insulting, certainly 
     patronizing, about the seeming astonishment (no staff! no 
     notes!! complete and thoughtful sentences!!!) that a woman, a 
     mere spouse, could execute so excellently on so public a 
     stage. Second, what seemed so impressive to me about 
     Hillary's achievement was that on the day preceding her 
     unprecedented performance, (a day when most of us would have 
     been demanding seclusion, cramming information, snarling at 
     subordinates, and putting our families on hold), Hillary 
     traveled to New York because it was important to the 
     President that she be present for his first address to the 
     United Nations, then rushed home for a school meeting where 
     her presence was important to Chelsea. Only then, late at 
     night, did she have time to fully focus and prepare.
       None of these, or countless other daily juggling acts, 
     makes Hillary Rodham Clinton eligible for martyrdom. Rather, 
     as she would be the very first to point out, they simply 
     illustrate the lives that most of the women who are her 
     contemporaries are now living: trying to meet and balance all 
     of our responsibilities, and find ways to usefully exercise 
     all our talents.
       The press grows impatient, I think, because they want an 
     easily identifiable image, a simple story, someone who either 
     cares about making herself and the White House look good, or 
     cares about health care and women's rights. But most of the 
     women I know (and surely many women in the media, which makes 
     some of the strange stories especially bewildering) care 
     about all those things, and many more besides. Few of us 
     today have the luxury of choosing this or that, homemaker or 
     professional, wife or worker. We are all those things, 
     because they all must be done. Hillary Rodham Clinton simply 
     happens to be the first of our First Ladies who has dared to 
     do them all openly, and well, and without apology.
       When I was a schoolchild I was both fascinated and 
     horrified by stories of the canaries who were carried down 
     into the mines as early warning systems for the miners; if 
     poisonous gases started seeping into the mine-shafts, the 
     canaries would quickly expire, thereby giving warning to the 
     men in the mines. I wonder now whether Hillary is playing the 
     risky part of national canary for the women of America. If 
     she can survive the distortions and misrepresentations, the 
     poisonous slurs and constant criticisms, it will be easier 
     breathing for us, and our daughters, and all the millions of 
     women who are coming on behind. The smart money is on the 
     canary.
                                                                    ____


Remarks of Dr. Ernest L. Boyer, President, The Carnegie Foundation for 
                      the Advancement of Teaching

       In every generation, since the United States began, notable 
     women have turned their talents to great causes, often 
     becoming advocates for the least advantaged. Going beyond 
     mere good works, and private acts of benevolence, these 
     leaders, of great competence and conviction, profoundly 
     influenced the public-policy issues of their day.
       Consider, for example, Dorothea Dix, the Unitarian school 
     teacher in Massachusetts, who led a national mental health 
     crusade. By the time of the Civil War, in large part through 
     her labors, twenty-eight states, four cities, and the federal 
     government constructed public institutions to treat, more 
     humanely, the mentally disabled.
       In 1889, Jane Addams, with Ellen Gates Starr, founded Hull 
     House in a dilapidated mansion, in a crowded Chicago 
     neighborhood. Addams, combined a remarkable capacity for 
     human sympathy with a brilliant gift of theoretical insights, 
     derived from personal experience. Far from being a naive do-
     gooder, Jane Addams viewed settlement houses as a way to help 
     new immigrants become empowered.
       Earlier in 1882, Florence Kelly, a graduate of Cornell 
     University, was refused admission to the University of 
     Pennsylvania law school. Still, with her formidable political 
     and legal skills, she crusaded against child labor--
     investigating, for example, the shocking working conditions 
     of children, including the glass-bottle factories of Alton, 
     Illinois, where boys as young as seven and eight worked from 
     dawn to dusk, carrying trays of red-hot glass bottles 
     through-out the factories.
       At a time when protecting wildlife was gaining national 
     attention, Kelley angrily noted the paradoxical neglect of 
     children. ``Why,'' she demanded, ``are seals, bears, 
     reindeer, fish, . . . buffalo [and] migratory birds all found 
     suitable for federal protection, and not children?''
       Largely through Kelley's efforts, the Illinois legislature, 
     in 1893, prohibited child labor. In 1912, Congress created a 
     federal Children's Bureau, through her influence. And then, 
     six years after Kelley's death, Congress finally banned child 
     labor.
       Josephine Baker, a physician in New York City at the turn 
     of the century, understood the link between health and 
     learning. She aggressively promoted school nurse programs and 
     basic health serv
      ices for needy children that became routine throughout the 
     country.
       All of these women possessed a passion for the downtrodden. 
     They also brought sharp wits, political skill, and, not 
     least, infinite patience and persistence, in the face of 
     setbacks. They overcame the prejudicial barriers of their 
     times, pursuing self-fashioned careers that helped shape, 
     profoundly, the history of this nation.
       Hillary Rodham Clinton is a part of this great tradition. 
     Her intelligence and determination, brilliant flashes of 
     humor, plus an unswerving commitment to human justice, and 
     most especially, to children, make her a worthy successor to 
     Dorothea Dix, Jane Addams, Florence Kelley, Josephine Baker, 
     and a host of other leaders who have made America a more just 
     and caring country.

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       Hillary Clinton is, above all, a consensus builder. In her 
     commencement address, upon graduating from Wellesley, she 
     told the audience: ``The challenge now is to practice 
     politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, 
     possible. . . . It is such a great adventure. If the 
     experiment in human living doesn't work, in this country, in 
     this age, it is not going to work anywhere.''
       Years ago, I followed, with great admiration, Hillary 
     Rodham Clinton's remarkably successful efforts to implement 
     as the First Lady of Arkansas, Governor Clinton's 
     comprehensive plan for school renewal. She conducted meetings 
     in every one of the state's 75 counties, and eloquently 
     asserted a common sense reform strategy that raised academic 
     standards, tested teachers, increased salaries, and improved 
     performance.
       More recently, I have been struck time and time again, that 
     key ideas in our work at The Carnegie Foundation could be 
     traced to the State of Arkansas where Governor and Mrs. 
     Clinton pursued a shared vision of excellence for all.
       This leadership became dramatically apparent at the 
     National Education Summit Meeting in 1989. On that historic 
     occasion, Governor Clinton argued forcefully, and with 
     success, that the nation's first and most essential education 
     goal should be school readiness for all children. The 
     Governor credited Mrs. Clinton for articulating the 
     importance of the early years. The Carnegie Foundation, 
     persuaded by the importance of this first national goal, 
     issued a report in 1991 called Ready to Learn: A Mandate for 
     the Nation.
       While preparing that report, I kept hearing about the HIPPY 
     program in the state of Arkansas--which stands for the Home 
     Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters. This program, 
     which Hillary Clinton brought from Israel to Arkansas, has 
     spread nationwide. It's now in twenty-four states reaching 
     20,000 families.
       On yet another front of child advocacy, Hillary Rodham 
     Clinton confronted the agonizing problem of teenage 
     pregnancy, moving the infant mortality rate in Arkansas, from 
     one of the highest, to one of the lowest in the nation.
       Our most recent Carnegie Foundation report called The Basic 
     School, brought us to the state of Arkansas once again. We 
     learned that through Hillary Clinton's supportive leadership, 
     the state mandated, in 1991, counselors for every elementary 
     school, which has become a model for the nation.
       As First Lady of the United States, Hillary Rodham 
     Clinton's commitment to children has remained energetically 
     unchanged, beginning with health. She brought common sense to 
     an enormously complicated problem. And we have no choice as a 
     nation but to achieve reform, not for political or even 
     fiscal reasons, but for the sake of all Americans and, most 
     especially, our children.
       Today, when the climate seems particularly unreceptive to 
     calls for caring and compassion, Hillary Clinton reminds us, 
     with elegance, about our obligations to the coming 
     generation. ``There is no such thing,'' she said, ``as other 
     people's children. There are only the hopes and dreams all 
     parents share, which we must do everything in our power to 
     preserve and strengthen.''
       In accepting the Lewis Hine Award, Hillary Rodham Clinton 
     said: ``No matter how much work we do, from the White House 
     to the courthouse, up and down every street in every large 
     city and every small town, what children need more than 
     anything else are adults who care abut them and love them, 
     teach them, and discipline them, and are willing to stand up 
     and fight for them in a world that is often cruel and 
     unfair.''
       One of my favorite American authors, James Agee, wrote on 
     one occasion, ``With every child who is born, under no matter 
     what circumstances, the potentiality of the human race is 
     born again.''
       Hillary Rodham Clinton has devoted a lifetime to affirming 
     both the dignity, and the potential, of all the nation's 
     children.
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 Remarks of Dr. John Brademas, Chairman, President's Committee on the 
    Arts and the Humanities, President Emeritus, New York University

       I have the honor for a third time of paying public tribute 
     to the First Lady of the United States, Hillary Rodham 
     Clinton. The first occasion was in March 1992 when, as 
     President of New York University, I introduced Mrs. Clinton 
     as principal speaker when the New York University School of 
     Law marked its ``Celebration of 100 Years of Women 
     Graduates.'' As a woman who is herself a highly regarded 
     lawyer, Mrs. Clinton was a most appropriate and distinguished 
     speaker at a salute to the education of women in the law and 
     recognition of their achievements in the legal profession.
       Since then, of course, Mrs. Clinton has become our First 
     Lady and has elevated her long-time advocacy of children's 
     rights, public schools and universal health care to the level 
     of national debate and attention.
       On September 21, 1994, President Clinton did me the honor 
     of appointing me Chairman of the President's Committee on the 
     Arts and the Humanities while asking the First Lady to serve 
     as Honorary Chair. At a reception at the White House that 
     day, Mrs. Clinton spoke eloquently about this responsibility. 
     She said then:
       We want to support and nurture our artists and humanists 
     and the traditions that they represent. And we want also to 
     bring those traditions alive for literally millions and 
     millions of children who too often grow up without 
     opportunities for creative expression, without opportunities 
     for intellectual stimulation, without exposure to the diverse 
     cultural traditions that contribute to our identity as 
     Americans.
       Too often today, instead of children discovering the joyful 
     rewards of painting, or music, or sculptering, or writing, or 
     testing a new idea, they express themselves through acts of 
     frustration, helplessness, hopelessness and even violence.
       . . . We hope that among the contributions this Committee 
     makes, it will be thinking of and offering ideas about how we 
     can provide children with safe havens to develop and explore 
     their own creative and intellectual potentials.
       The arts and humanities have the potential for being such 
     safe havens. In communities were programs already exist, they 
     are providing soul-saving and life-enhancing opportunities 
     for your people. And I am delighted that as one of its major 
     endeavors, this Committee will be considering ways of 
     expanding those opportunities to all of our children.
       Last month I had the privilege of being at the United 
     Nations to hear the First Lady speak of the challenge to men 
     and women everywhere, and particularly women, actively to 
     participate in promoting social progress. Clearly Mrs. 
     Clinton has been inspired by the life of her eminent 
     predecessor as First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt. And like 
     Eleanor Roosevelt before her, Hillary Clinton breaks new 
     ground in public service.
       Like Eleanor Roosevelt, Hillary Rodham Clinton has been 
     criticized for undertaking responsibilities some consider 
     inappropriate for First Ladies, indeed, for women in general. 
     But like Eleanor Roosevelt, Hillary Clinton has persevered. 
     Hers is an unwavering voice on behalf of the rights and needs 
     of human beings, especially children, not only in our own 
     country but around the world.
       In recognizing the responsibility of women in helping shape 
     America's future, Hillary Rodham Clinton has earned, and 
     continues to earn, our admiration and our respect. I am proud 
     to join in this tribute to her.
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 Remarks of Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell, General Secretary, National 
              Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA

       Day by day, Hillary Rodham Clinton is building an enduring 
     contribution to our national life that can be discerned even 
     amid the rush and tumult of current events. She is serving 
     the nation in one of its defining moments and when historians 
     place these events in perspective, surely she will be given a 
     prominent place. By her style, her sensitivity, her presence 
     and her competence, Mrs. Clinton has already expanded the 
     nation's understanding of the role of the First Lady. Never 
     again will it be limited to the single role of national 
     hostess and helpmate. Called by circumstance and equipped 
     with the extraordinary gifts of grace and intelligence, she 
     has broken that mold--a task that has often placed her in an 
     unenviable position and that places all those who follow in 
     her debt.
       This is what history may say, but for those who identify 
     themselves as people of faith we acknowledge Hillary Rodham 
     Clinton today, and in all the days to follow, as a woman of 
     faith.
       The New Testament urges believers to ``be doers of the word 
     and not merely hearers'' (NRSV James 1:22). Hillary Rodham 
     Clinton has taken this admonition to heart, as is evident 
     from the way her many achievements have contributed to the 
     common good.
       In the language of theology I salute her as an 
     incarnational person, in that her words become incarnate in 
     deeds. Throughout her life she has been deeply involved in 
     work that protects children, that upholds the dignity of 
     women, that supports families in concrete, meaningful ways 
     and that seeks health and wholeness for all people.
       As a very busy attorney, she showed her commitment by 
     giving time and energy as an active director of the 
     Children's Defense Fund, advocating a morally grounded and 
     highly practical approach to caring for all children, and 
     especially for the very young who suffer from the effects of 
     material and spiritual poverty. As First Lady, her work 
     toward health care reform in this nation combined passionate 
     careing with knowledge and skill. Because of the sacrifices 
     she made to pursue this work, the issue was raised to a level 
     that it had never been raised to before and in a way that 
     ensures it can never be removed from the American agenda. 
     Most recently I admired her role at the United Nations Social 
     Summit in Copenhagen where she spoke eloquently on behalf of 
     the people of the United States on the issue of social 
     development and the role of women in that process.
       Examples abound of the care and high seriousness with which 
     she takes every assignment that life gives her. More 
     testaments to her grace, integrity and competence could be 
     shared in a lengthier forum. Taken together, her work 
     provides a powerful model for women everywhere. She is the 
     image of a woman with expertise, poise, and credibility. In 
     recasting the role of First Lady she helps all women to be 
     taken seriously, and at the same time, she demonstrates those 
     qualities that have been traditionally held up as womanly 
     virtues. We see her as wife, as life companion, as loving 
     protective mother, as daughter, and as empathetic friend. 
     Both in the focus of her work and in her personal demeanor 
     she shows a concern for the comfort and well-being of others. 
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     of hospitality to all around her, thus she carries a vision of what a 
     woman can be--for the sake of her own daughter and for the 
     sake of all women and their daughters. Such a visible model 
     is also a lightning rod for criticism by those who do not 
     share this vision. Mrs. Clinton has borne this criticism with 
     courage and without rancor.
       Mrs. Clinton is truly a ``doer'' in every sense of the 
     word. The book of James quoted earlier also promises that 
     those who ``persevere, being not hearers who forget but doers 
     who act--they will be blessed in their doing.'' So to you, 
     friend and faithful servant, Hillary Rodham Clinton, all 
     God's blessings in your life and work.
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  Remarks of Marion Wright Edelman, President and Founder, Children's 
                              Defense Fund

       I have known First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton for more 
     than two and a half decades. I first met her when she was a 
     student at Yale Law School--even then interested in figuring 
     out ways to help families provide for the basic needs of 
     children. I have known her in the intervening years as a 
     gifted advocate--in court, in the legislature, and in public 
     education; and inspiring and insightful author; a loving, 
     concerned, and attentive mother; a supportive wife; a dutiful 
     and loving daughter; a warm and loyal friend; an effective 
     leader of the Children's Defense Fund's board of directors; a 
     dedicated friend for children; and a tireless First Lady.
       At a time when many women, but particularly women in the 
     public eye, have been faced with the difficult challenge of 
     juggling career and family, the First Lady has balanced those 
     dual demands with courage, grace, and humor. She has held her 
     family together with love and resiliency in the face of 
     extraordinary professional and political demands.
       The First Lady is a committed, persistent, thoughtful, and 
     balanced advocate for children and families. Since she was a 
     law student, she has understood the crucial need to nurture 
     families as they struggle to rear the children who will be 
     our future parents, voters, employees, entrepreneurs, and 
     leaders. The First Lady has cared deeply that low- and 
     moderate-income working families and children have access to 
     decent childcare so that they can develop to their fullest 
     potential; she has cared that children have access to the 
     preventive healthcare services necessary to long-term 
     individual health and reduced national healthcare costs; she 
     has striven to ensure that children have access to quality 
     education and early childhood development opportunities 
     necessary to productive adulthoods.
       In each of her many roles, the First Lady has excelled. 
     Perhaps most importantly, she has never lost sight of her 
     spiritual commitment to values that transcend self and 
     partisanship. I am constantly grateful to have had her as a 
     friend and colleague, and we as a Nation are extraordinarily 
     lucky to have her as our First Lady.
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  Remarks of Arthur S. Flemming, Chair, Save Our Security Coalition, 
           Former Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare

       Hilliary Rodham Clinton has dedicated her life to helping 
     her fellow human beings deal with the hazards and 
     vicissitudes of life. She has kept at the center of her life 
     the Commandment that is at the center of our Judeo-Christian 
     religion: ``Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.''
       Her dedication to others has been shown in many ways, such 
     as her outstanding contributions to the Legal Services 
     Corporation and the Children's Defense Fund.
       This dedication reflected itself in a dramatic way when she 
     committed her talents to the cause of universal coverage of 
     health care.
       She immersed herself in the issue. Some of the finest 
     leaders in the health care field provided her with advice. 
     She emerged with a plan that not only set forth the goal of 
     universal coverage but recommended to the Nation a 
     comprehensive plan for achieving that goal.
       Then along with her husband, the President of the United 
     States, Mrs. Clinton became one of the most effective 
     advocates for universal coverage that this Nation has even 
     known. The Nation became well acquainted with here as an 
     effective advocate. As she traveled throughout the Nation she 
     was not content with speaking. She listened to real people 
     discuss their real problems. They were the persons that 
     convinced her that our present system for the delivery of 
     health care has broken down. They were the persons that 
     convinced her that without universal coverage they and their 
     children faced premature death and unnecessary suffering.
       As a result of Mrs. Clinton's dedication, 1994 was the 
     greatest year in the history of this Nation in the area of 
     health care.
       Never before had we had the in-depth national dialogue on 
     health care that we had in 1994. As a result of that 
     dialogue, poll after poll showed that 75-80 percent of our 
     people believe that we must have universal coverage. A real 
     concern developed throughout the Nation about the breakdown 
     of our present health delivery system.
       We are now in a position as a national community to add 
     universal coverage for health care and roundout President 
     Roosevelt's concern for a complete system of Social Security. 
     If we build on the accomplishment of 1994 we will reach our 
     goal.
       We can and will reach this goal because of the dedication 
     of Hillary Rodham Clinton to the people of this Nation. Her 
     deep-seated concern is one of our Nation's great treasures. 
     The Annual Survey of American Law's recognition of this fact 
     is deeply appreciated.
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Remarks of Dr. David Hamburg, President, The Carnegie Foundation of New 
                                  York

       It is a privilege to write about Hillary Rodham Clinton 
     from the perspective of her lifelong dedication to children. 
     As First Lady, she has established a track record in the 
     great tradition of Eleanor Roosevelt as a tireless exemplar 
     of humane, compassionate, democratic values and creative 
     problem-solving. In this capacity, she has played a highly 
     significant role in expanding the reach of immunization while 
     also broadening the scope and enhancing the quality of Head 
     Start. She also facilitated a new federal initiative on the 
     school-to-work transition for youth. In her travels as First 
     Lady, at home and abroad, she has called attention to 
     innovative ways of strengthening healthy child development. 
     In the years ahead, millions of today's children will live 
     better lives as a consequence of her efforts.
       She was the First Lady of Arkansas for twelve years, during 
     which time she worked thoughtfully on behalf of children and 
     youth. For example, she chaired an education committee that 
     set public school standards in Arkansas. Indeed, she 
     exemplified in her own life as well as her professional work 
     the complex integration of family, work and public service 
     that is so precious in modern democracies.
       My own distinctive view of her work on behalf of children 
     comes from her relationship with the Carnegie Corporation of 
     New York over almost a quarter of a century.
       While a student at Yale Law School, she developed her 
     strong concern for protecting the interests of children and 
     their families. In 1993, when speaking at Yale about very 
     young children, she made a few remarks about the meaning of 
     the Yale experience. ``I got this rather odd idea when I was 
     at the Yale Law School that I wanted to know more about 
     children's development. . . . particularly in the early 
     years, and to really find out what I can about how their 
     needs are met or not met, and particularly what role the 
     legal system plays in both a positive and negative way in 
     helping children and families.''
       One of her earliest professional positions was on the staff 
     of the Carnegie Council on Children, starting in the Spring 
     of 1972. She had already been involved in civil rights law, 
     children's advocacy, and work in Head Start. The Council took 
     a very broad view of our nation's children, their problems 
     and ways to improve their opportunities.
       The Carnegie file from 1972 contains a letter from 
     Professor Kenneth Kenniston, the Chairman of the Council. He 
     wrote, ``I am very happy with this staff which is young, 
     lively, committed, iconoclastic, open and energetic. They are 
     going to be hard to handle.'' I don't know whether he was 
     talking about Hillary in referring to that brilliant, 
     iconoclastic, hard-to-handle staff, but there is no doubt she 
     made valuable contributions. In that period, she published a 
     landmark paper, ``Children Under the Law,'' in the Harvard 
     Educational Review.
       In 1980, she came back into the Carnegie orbit again as the 
     founder and president of Arkansas Advocates for Children and 
     Families. Carnegie made a grant to that organization to 
     improve services for children and families. Her long and 
     thoughtful dedication to the Children's Defense Fund is well 
     known, from a staff job in the early 1970s to her 
     chairmanship of the board in recent years.
       In the late 1980s, Hillary served on the W.T. Grant 
     Foundation's Commission on Youth, Work, and Family, that 
     produced a very important report, ``The Forgotten Half,'' 
     emphasizing the school-to-work transition for students who do 
     not go on to college. She pursued this interest later with 
     Carnegie support, relating it to the Commission on the Skills 
     of the American Workforce. She thought creatively about ways 
     to implement an effective school-to-work transition in the 
     United States, where we lag so far behind Europe and other 
     countries. She paid particular attention to the role of the 
     states in this process. So there are many manifestations of 
     her devotion to children, youth, and families--from the 
     youngest children through late adolescence.
       In 1994, she spoke at the opening of a Carnegie Conference 
     on the first three years of life. In eloquent terms and with 
     deep insight, she clarified ways of meeting the essential 
     requirements for healthy child development in the earliest 
     years. She has seen to it that the national discourse on 
     health care reform can never again leave out children and 
     youth.
       For decades to come, Hillary Rodham Clinton's clear voice 
     will be heard on behalf of America's, and the world's, 
     children. The life chances of children everywhere will be 
     improved as a consequence of her actions. If there is a more 
     important contribution anyone can make, I wonder what it 
     could be.
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 Remarks of Edward M. Kennedy, United States Senator, Commonwealth of 
                             Massachusetts

       In 1993, America welcomed an impressive and extraordinarily 
     talented woman to the White House, Hillary Rodham Clinton. In 
     the time since then, all of us who knew her in earlier years 
     and were impressed by her ability and commitment to public 
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     come to admire her even more, especially her grace under pressure--her 
     courage--in enduring the controversies that have swirled 
     around her as she redefines the role of the modern First 
     Lady.
       I have had the privilege of working closely with her in the 
     past two years on an issue I have been especially committed 
     to--the ongoing struggle to bring health security to all 
     Americans. In the years I have been involved in this 
     important effort, I have never met anyone more committed to 
     the cause than Hillary Rodham Clinton. We came closer to 
     success in the past Congress than ever before, and the 
     progress we made was primarily the result of the energy, 
     intelligence, and political skill she brought to the battle.
       I vividly remember our first Senate hearing on the 
     comprehensive health reform package proposed by President 
     Clinton. It was held on September 29, 1993, in the historic 
     Senate Caucus Room. The First Lady was the only witness. For 
     several hours, she answered the toughest questions seventeen 
     Senators could throw at her, and she did so with an eloquence 
     and persuasiveness that impressed Democrats and Republicans 
     alike. If we could have taken the bill to the full Senate in 
     the days after that hearing, I believe we could have passed 
     it.
       Powerful vested interest groups and partisan tactics of 
     obstruction designed to deny President Clinton a legislative 
     victory succeeded in blocking action by the past Congress. 
     Bipartisan efforts are now under way in the current Congress 
     to adopt the most needed reforms, and whatever progress we 
     make will in large measure be due to the groundwork Mrs. 
     Clinton laid. She is an effective advocate for making the 
     fundamental right to health care a basic right for all, not 
     just an expensive privilege to the few, and I have been proud 
     to stand with her.
       Mrs. Clinton has also been a tireless advocate on 
     children's issues. As First Lady of Arkansas, she 
     successfully led efforts for education reform and for 
     increased investment in early childhood development. She 
     discovered a model home-visiting, parenting-training, early 
     childhood and school readiness program in Israel, adapted it 
     to Arkansas, and implemented it across the state. This 
     program has become a national model and has been replicated 
     in communities across the country.
       In addition, as chairperson of the Board of Directors of 
     the Children's Defense Fund for several years, Mrs. Clinton 
     was at the forefront of numerous major initiatives to improve 
     the lives of children and families. Her causes have included 
     expanding access to Head Start, encouraging childhood 
     immunization, and shaping a ``one-stop-shopping'' approach to 
     reduce bureaucracy and streamline the delivery of services to 
     families and children. In May 1991, in an earlier impressive 
     appearance on Capitol Hill, she testified at a hearing by the 
     Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources on these and 
     other children's issues, and reminded us that the heart of 
     these serious problems is not lack of resources but lack of 
     will.
       I know that in the years ahead, Hillary Rodham Clinton will 
     continue to be a powerful voice for justice and opportunity 
     and a role model for millions of Americans. This tribute by 
     the Annual Survey of American Law is a well-deserved honor, 
     and it is a privilege to participate in it.
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Remarks of C. Everett Koop, M.D., Former Surgeon General of the United 
                                 States

       Hillary Rodham Clinton and I first met when President 
     Clinton asked me to advise Mrs. Clinton on the ways that her 
     Task Force on Health Care Reform might respond to the growing 
     opposition of the medical profession to the Clinton health 
     care reform plan. After only a few minutes of conversation 
     with Hillary Clinton, I was delighted to discover that any 
     negative impressions generated by the media's caricature of 
     her were dispelled immediately. I found her to be a woman of 
     great sensitivity, keen intellect, and a delightfully winsome 
     charm. Since I shared the Clintons' desire to bring equitable 
     reform to our health care system, with special attention to 
     the needs of the uninsured, I agreed with the President's 
     suggestion that I moderate a series of forums between the 
     First Lady and the medical profession.
       Convened in several cities across the nation, these forums 
     provided a much-needed dialogue between physicians and the 
     head of the Task Force on Health Care Reform. The medical 
     profession saw first-hand the sincerity and dedication of the 
     First Lady, and they achieved her sympathetic understanding 
     of the ways in which certain provisions of the Health 
     Security Act disturbed the medical profession. She was able 
     to assure the physicians that, as long as the main thrust of 
     reform was not threatened, the language of the reform would 
     be altered to meet their concerns. Hillary Clinton quickly 
     demonstrated that she was able to see the many facets of the 
     President's health care reform plan through the eyes of 
     physicians who were dedicated--above all--to caring for their 
     patients and acting as their advocates.
       I have met no one who has a better grasp of the American 
     health care system--or non-system, which might be a more 
     accurate term--than Hillary Rodham Clinton. Yet, she was 
     already ready to learn more, to accommodate a nuance not 
     clear before, to adjust to a new wrinkle in the complicated 
     tapestry of health care delivery.
       The President's plan failed in Congress for many reasons, 
     but mostly because the nation had not been prepared for 
     changes as sweeping as those proposed. The last major reform 
     health care, the Medicare and Medicaid programs, came in the 
     midst of the reforming zeal of the Great Society, and they 
     were preceded by several years of national education and 
     debate.
       Politics aside, the health care reform plan failed because 
     each of us was being asked to do something for all of us. And 
     each of us may have feared that what was best for all of us 
     was not necessarily best for each of us. It was that simple. 
     It was that complicated.
       The President's plan for health care reform provided a 
     diagnosis of the problems with our health care system, and 
     then it proposed a series of remedies. The Congress and the 
     people may have rejected the proposed remedy, but they have 
     not challenged the diagnosis. No one can fault Hillary 
     Clinton's diagnosis of the health care system's ailments. Her 
     diagnosis was far-reaching, comprehensive, and right on 
     target. Her diagnosis will be the springboard for the next 
     round of the debate on health care reform.
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 Remarks of Philip R. Lee, M.D., Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. 
                Department of Health and Human Services

       Hillary Rodham Clinton is a woman of extraordinary 
     intelligence, understanding, compassion and commitment. In 
     more than thirty years of involvement in health policy at the 
     federal, state, and local levels, I have never met an 
     individual who was able to grasp the complexities of health 
     care organization, delivery, and financing as well as Mrs. 
     Clinton. She not only has this extraordinary ability to grasp 
     complex information, but she was able to communicate it to a 
     range of audiences, professional, and public, more clearly 
     and accurately than anyone in my experience.While these 
     talents are important, even more important is her capacity to 
     listen to individuals and families about their experiences in 
     order to learn fully how the system does and does not 
     operate. Her deep compassion was evident as she listened to 
     individuals and families throughout the country--from tribal 
     chiefs in Montana, to parents in a children's hospital in 
     Washington, to a broad range of citizens in Lincoln, 
     Nebraska, to sick patients in nursing homes, parents of 
     disabled children, and to citizens of the broadest range 
     across the country. She read the thousands of letters sent to 
     her by people from throughout the nation in order to better 
     understand what health care meant to people and what needed 
     to be done to assure everyone in the United States access to 
     a decent level of health care.
       These are all great qualities and ones to be admired, but I 
     think, even more, I admire Hillary Rodham Clinton's integrity 
     and strength of character. She has a clear sense of who she 
     is, what here values are, and what she believes. She does not 
     wet her finger, stick it up to the wind, and determine what 
     she will believe on particular issue at a particular moment 
     in time.
       Finally, Mr. Clinton has been an inspiration for many of us 
     who have had the opportunity to work with her as Presidential 
     employees. When the times are toughest, when the road is most 
     rocky, when the tasks seem insurmountable, she has been a 
     source of not only encouragement, but energy and inspection. 
     While many of us have been beneficiaries, directly and 
     individually, of her support, her knowledge, her 
     understanding, her commitment and her incredible energy, all 
     of the American people benefit from her extraordinary 
     qualities, but most of all from her integrity.

      Remarks of Loretta McLaughlin, Op-Ed Columnist, Boston Globe

       As we honor our distinguished and endearing First Lady, 
     Hillary Rodham Clinton, do not expect faint praise from me.
       I belong to that vast company of Americans, women and men, 
     who are openly admirous of this woman who has such an 
     enormous and difficult job, balancing countless demands on 
     her time and talent along with myriad points of view--and yet 
     who handles it all with uncommon grace and seeming ease.
       People who work on the line in my business--on newspapers, 
     radio, and television--are especially drawn to her.
       She's our kind of person, our kind of woman. An activist. 
     Approachable. Quick-witted, quick study. Absorbing. Serious. 
     Informed. Expressive. We genuinely like her. We honestly 
     respect her.
       And I, from the vantage point of long experience, worry for 
     her. I don't want her hurt needlessly, don't want her 
     feelings trammeled by shallow detractors.
       She simply thrills American women. She appeals to all women 
     who work for wages, women on payrolls, salaried women. Women 
     who earn money in the workplace. And she inspires young 
     professional women who are combining jobs, husbands, 
     children, Parent Teacher Association meetings, dentist and 
     doctor visits, car pools, community activities, and the whole 
     nine yards of today's lifestyles for families trying to cope 
     with everything at once.
       All these women see a small piece of themselves in her. 
     They see her obviously trying hard to do a good job, as they 
     are. They see her performing so well, doing them proud--doing 
     all women proud who are trying to keep a house, hold a job 
     and contribute meaningfully to society.
       They love her because she, like them, went out to compete 
     in the real marketplace and tested her mettle in the way that 
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     work was valued enough to be compensated; she bolstered the family 
     income.
       My daughter-in-law has urged me to ``please tell Mrs. 
     Clinton how much we would like to be like her. She's so 
     articulate. So focused. So prepared. So effective.'' It is no 
     small accomplishment to have a new generation--in your own 
     time--want to become like you. It is the highest of 
     compliments.
       In Mrs. Clinton's case, it is well-deserved. She is new 
     generation. She is tomorrow. More than highly intelligent and 
     finely educated, she is capable and competent and absorbing.
       And she keeps getting stronger as she moves fully into this 
     new role. Two years into the Presidency, she has set a 
     standard of excellence on par with Eleanor Roosevelt for 
     health and social services and civil rights, with Jacqueline 
     Kennedy Onassis for arts and the humanities, and with Bess 
     Truman for honesty and personal loyalty. The nation remains 
     intrigued by Mrs. Clinton.
       The Washington Post calls her ``the first lady of paradox. 
     . . . both old-fashioned and post-modern. . . . a 
     contradiction of perceptions.'' That is her gift; she is 
     sensible and sensitive at the same time.
       However, we should be mindful that she occupies the White 
     House at a time of extreme transition. The paradox of being 
     both old-fashioned and post-modern applies to our society as 
     well. Despite the rock-em, sock-em, depictions of American 
     life that glut our television screens, as a people we remain 
     quite traditional.
       With the dawning of a new age, a new century, a new 
     millennium, we are even more demanding of our leaders on both 
     fronts. We want them to respect and retain the formalities 
     and rituals of office and we want them to master and reflect 
     each new technology, technique and trend that comes along.
       We have empathy for every First Lady--each woman, wife, 
     mother who has to live in full public view in the nation's 
     most scrutinized residence. But history must concede it has 
     fallen to Mrs. Clinton to break new ground. She is a pioneer 
     First Lady, the first to be a credentialed and active lawyer, 
     qualified as a member of the American bar, a professional 
     person fully in her own right.
       She and the President serve at a time when the nation has 
     profound problems that cry out for expert attention. Instead 
     of allowing the Presidency with its vast network of advisors 
     to provide a setting for quiet, thoughtful and comprehensive 
     analysis, the office is constantly being distracted by those 
     who flood the halls of government with foolish partisan 
     themes and empty political ploys.
       Such tactics make it difficult for all of us to concentrate 
     on what we need to do as citizens. And they threaten to blunt 
     the enthusiasm and energy, the resiliency that Hillary and 
     Bill Clinton have brought to the White House. It is shameful 
     that Mrs. Clinton who has sincerely tried to be helpful is 
     made the butt of cheap jokes by rightwing extremists 
     preaching provincialism and zealotry. What the Clintons would 
     have us do is to seek greatness again.
       Others will speak of Mrs. Clinton's work on behalf of 
     children and education and in pursuit of better opportunities 
     to lead productive and useful lives for all Americans. It is 
     for me to speak of
      Mrs. Clinton in connection with health care reform--my 
     favorite issue and one near and dear to her.
       That is the ground upon which she and I first met in Boston 
     and continue to meet. It is the legislative turf that she 
     made most her own during the first half of the Clinton 
     Presidency.
       Since the Congressional election last November, it is 
     considered journalistically chic in many quarters to 
     criticize Mrs. Clinton for what some in the press like to 
     label her failure to enact health care reform.
       But Mrs. Clinton didn't fail at this. She did her job. She 
     researched the problem, pinned down the facts, and outlined a 
     solution. Her recommendations were consistent with the 
     President's oft-expressed view that health care coverage 
     should be universal, comprehensive, job-linked, and cost-
     controlled. He proposed a national health care plan based on 
     a managed competition model. But he and she made it clear 
     from the beginning that the plan was open for negotiation.
       The failure to come to grips with any part of health care 
     reform--not even to grasp the urgent need for it--lies with a 
     very confused and lethargic 103rd United States Congress.
       The immobility of its members was abetted by the multi-
     million dollar lobbying effort staged by health insurers and 
     others on the business end of the health care industry. To 
     maintain the status quo on health care, a trillion-dollar-a-
     year industry in the United States, the lobbyists generously 
     fed campaign kitties around the country for Congressional 
     candidates standing for re-election.
       Mrs. Clinton was clear about what was needed. She made 
     stellar appearances on the Hill, testifying before House and 
     Senate committees more extensively than any previous First 
     Lady.
       We can all agree there is room for differences of opinion 
     on the Clinton-proposed solution as to how best to achieve an 
     equitable and affordable system of universal health care. But 
     we should bear in mind that the facts speak for themselves 
     when we examine the existing patchwork of health care 
     delivery in this country and the vagaries of its funding.
       Mrs. Clinton learned all there is to know about our 
     unevenly delivered and inadequately funded health care non-
     system. And she now knows, as do experts in the field, that 
     it cannot be fixed piecemeal--despite the partisan rhetoric 
     to the contrary.
       What a happy surprise it was to see the front-page headline 
     in the New York Times on a recent Sunday saying that ``now 
     it's Republicans who see a health care crisis looming'' and 
     they now
      want to persuade the public that the crisis is real. Too bad 
     they couldn't see it last year when Mrs. Clinton needed 
     them.
       It comes as no surprise, however, that when Mrs. Clinton 
     looked at the situation she saw as the most serious problem 
     within the heath care dilemma the number (now 41 million) of 
     Americans with no coverage.
       But even at this late date, the Republican majority is 
     obsessed with proposals to trim the Medicare budget. Medicare 
     is the program that pays for medical care for 37 million 
     Americans over 65 years of age or disabled.
       It figures, doesn't it, that the new Newt-onian-style 
     Republican reformers would want to meddle with a group of 
     Americans who already have the most solid coverage. But, as 
     Willy Sutton well knew, that's where the money is. Medicare 
     currently spends about $170 billion a year. While we could 
     agree on the need to conserve Medicare dollars and discuss 
     the pluses and minuses of moving the elderly into managed 
     care plans, the real point is that doing so would also pour 
     billions of Medicare dollars--that now directly buy health 
     care--into the coffers of private health insurance companies.
       This is not what Mrs. Clinton and the President had in mind 
     when they set out to make all Americans medically secure. And 
     I am convinced he and she will yet see that goal achieved. 
     Health care reform remains a top tier concern of the American 
     public.
       Congress's failure to enact health care reform does not 
     mean that the problem has gone away. To the contrary. The 
     most recent analyses indicate that since 1993, every facet of 
     health care coverage continues to worsen. More Americans than 
     ever before are uncovered; and those with coverage are 
     getting less for their money and must spend more out-of-
     pocket for medical care.
       Meanwhile, let us see the First lady in her own light. Let 
     us put away the old vie of First Ladies. You know, the one 
     where she figuratively and actually stands slightly behind 
     and slightly below the President.
       In the wonderful new world of this accomplished couple, let 
     us have the First Lady and the President stand on level 
     ground as all enlightened men and women should. Not in 
     confrontation, but side by side, looking out together from 
     the same perspective but with individual insight.
       In the long run, defining anew the role of First Lady, 
     carefully and distinctively, may prove to be her most arduous 
     but most outstanding accomplishment. I salute you, Mrs. 
     Clinton.
                                                                    ____


              Remarks of Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan

       I was very pleased to be asked to write a few words of 
     dedication about Hillary Rodham Clinton, because it allowed 
     me to express some of my thoughts about a truly remarkable 
     person, who has also become a good friend.
       Hillary Clinton, in many ways, has enhanced the importance 
     of the challenging roles of public servant and First Lady 
     through her unfaltering personal courage and sense of 
     compassion, her unwavering support for social justice and 
     human rights, and her dedication to the welfare of American 
     society, particularly to those whose voices are too seldom 
     heard, such as children. Those qualities, coupled with Mrs. 
     Clinton's education, legal experience and political and 
     social awareness, have enabled her to be an articulate 
     champion of issues of concern to many throughout the world.
       But it is Mrs. Clinton's personal integrity, her 
     intellectual honesty and commitment to dialogue and 
     understanding in international relations that have impressed 
     me most.
       In the past year, Jordan has witnessed some of the most 
     critical and momentous events in its history. In July of 
     1994, the Washington Declaration, signed on the South Lawn of 
     the White House, ended 46 years of conflict between the State 
     of Israel and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Mrs. Clinton 
     was more than simply a gracious and generous hostess; she was 
     a partner in Jordan and Israel's shared hopes for a better 
     future for the Middle East and all its peoples. Like a mirror 
     of her country, the United States, she was our partner in 
     peace.
                                                                    ____

                Remarks of Letty Cottin Pogrebin, Author

       As a professional scribbler, I usually find it hard to 
     write about Hillary Clinton because of the journalistic 
     imperative to avoid superlatives. Thankfully, no such rule 
     applies at the Annual Survey of American Law, which means 
     your tribute book will likely reflect a more authentic view 
     of this remarkable woman than has been evident in the average 
     ``objective'' media profile.
       The fact is, one cannot talk about Hillary Rodham Clinton 
     without using superlatives. The National Law journal listed 
     her among the ``100 most influential lawyers in America'' 
     (one of only four women), and she appears in Best Lawyers in 
     America, Who's Who in American Law, and the World Who's Who 
     of Women. What interests me far more than her professional 
     honors is the way her friends and colleagues talk about her, 
     their recollections of her personal warmth, her lifelong 
     commitment to justice, her breath-taking intellect, the 
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     heart, dazzling eloquence and down-home humor that make this woman so 
     unique.
       Hillary Clinton is not a recent invention of First 
     Ladyhood; she has been who she is for more than 25 years. Her 
     Wellesley classmates remember her as a pre-eminent 
     intellectual but also as the kindest, most principled student 
     leader on campus, totally focused, a gifted mediator, well-
     centered, and mature beyond her years. Several of her Yale 
     contemporaries have told me she was not simply an editor of 
     the Review of Law and Social Action, but the smartest person 
     (not woman, person) at the Yale Law School--and 
     unselfconscious to boot.
       Sara Ehrman, veteran Democratic activities who ran George 
     McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign in south Texas, first 
     met Hillary Rodham when she came to San Antonio as a 
     volunteer. Ehrman remembers being bowled over by the young 
     law student's grasp of arcane election law, but says the 
     reason the two became friends and remain close to this day is 
     because ``Hillary's the best company in the world.'' In 1974, 
     while she was serving on the impeachment Inquiry staff of the 
     Judiciary Committee working on the Watergate proceedings, 
     Hillary Rodham was Sara Ehrman's houseguest for nine months.
       As Ehrman tells it: ``She was brilliant, she was a star, 
     she could have done anything in Washington. When she came 
     home one night and told me she'd decided to teach at the 
     University of Arkansas and make a life with Bill Clinton, I 
     said, `Are you out of your mind going to this godforsaken 
     place to marry this country
      lawyer?!' She just looked at me and said, `Sara, I love 
     him.' So I drove her to Arkansas, which was the most 
     raucous, wonderful journey of my life. We laughed all the 
     way through the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Shenandoah 
     Valley. It took us four days because every 20 miles we 
     stopped to go shopping.''
       Ambassador Mickey Kantor, now U.S. Trade Representative, 
     joined the Legal Services Corporation Board in 1978 when 
     Hillary Clinton was its Chair. ``I can't say enough good 
     things about her,'' he begins. ``She had a tremendous 
     dedication to local programs and a deep commitment to making 
     justice accessible to poor people in everything from spousal 
     abuse cases to landlord-tenant or wage disputes. Plus, she 
     could always balance conflicting interests, ideologies, and 
     personalities on the Board and among the lawyers and staff. 
     The Corporation was never in better shape than when she 
     chaired it.''
       Kantor, a friend for 17 years, believes the media has 
     trouble capturing Hillary Clinton because she is so multi-
     dimensional. He describes her as a terrific wife, mother, 
     daughter, sister, lawyer, public servant, and friend; someone 
     with a great sense of humor, who has contributed so much to 
     her community, is ``extremely well-organized, speaks in 
     perfect paragraphs, knows how to take complicated issues and 
     break them down into manageable pieces, and operates as every 
     good lawyer should--zealously on behalf of the client.''
       Not only has she always been willing to take on intractable 
     issues whether related to the legal system, quality 
     education, or health care, but, Kantor says, by the example 
     of her own strength and dignity ``she is blazing a trail for 
     future First Ladies--or First Husbands. She is a fascinating 
     combination of talents. For once, all the superlatives are 
     true.''
       Elaine Weiss was Executive Director of the ABA Commission 
     on Women in the Profession when Hillary Clinton was its 
     Chair. ``Hillary was instrumental in getting the American Bar 
     Association to take an activist voice in advancing women's 
     status,'' says Weiss. ``She saw women's issues as economic 
     issues. She'd go into a room full of predominantly white guys 
     and their body language bespoke their discomfort. But she had 
     this incredible ability to break down barriers and get men to 
     listen to the problems of women. She came across very 
     mainstream, and sounded so reasonable, and presented herself 
     as a working lawyer just like them. And she got them to 
     embrace change because of her leadership.''
       Under Hillary Clinton, the Commission held national 
     hearings on the status of women in the profession. It 
     published a report on
      gender bias in law schools, government, courtrooms, and Bar 
     Associations. It identified the double barriers 
     experienced by minority women lawyers. It developed policy 
     manuals to guide law firms on how to better deal with 
     parental leave, part-time work, or sexual harassment.
       ``A woman lawyer anywhere in the country, not just a Wall 
     Street magister, could take this manual to a partner and say, 
     `Look, we can work this out.' The Commission really made a 
     difference for me because she was a role model of a 
     successful woman who never sacrificed her family or friends. 
     Working for her was the best part of my life.''
       When Elinor Guggenheimer brought Hillary Rodham Clinton 
     onto the board of the Child Care Action Campaign, on which I 
     also served, I remember thinking Guggenheimer must have 
     recruited her for show, because she was cute, young, blonde, 
     and the wife of an up-and-coming governor. To my surprise, at 
     the first meeting she attended, Hillary Clinton offered the 
     most knowledgeable, clear-headed assessment of this country's 
     child care crisis I'd ever heard in one mouthful. During the 
     years we served together, I developed an abiding respect for 
     her problem-solving skills and her genuine dedication to 
     guaranteeing quality care to every American child.
       ``Hillary always approached the child care problem with 
     passion but not emotionalism,'' says Guggenheimer. ``She's 
     not one of those simplistic `I just love little children' 
     types; she looks at what legislation is needed, what policy 
     changes, what strategies. She brings cerebral power to her 
     caring.''
       To Ellie Guggenheimer, there's much more to Hillary Clinton 
     than her brains. ``I never recognize her when I read about 
     her in the press. They miss her whimsy and her sensitivity. 
     Whenever she stayed over at our apartment in New York, we put 
     her up on a convertible couch. She was First Lady of Arkansas 
     at the time but she refused to be waited on by anyone. My 
     husband Randy fell in love with her and he's a Republican. 
     After one visit, she sent us a picture of herself and Randy 
     on which she'd inscribed, ``Hope the tabloids don't find out 
     about us.''
       Hillary Clinton's eloquence is the eighth wonder of the 
     world. ``She never speaks from notes and she never says er, 
     ah, or um, no matter how complex the subject,'' says 
     Guggenheimer. ``I don't know how she does it.''
       I've marveled at the same phenomenon. In the summer of 
     1991, I organized a week-long series on family issues at the 
     Chautauqua Institute and invited Hillary Clinton to speak on 
     the challenge
      of blending marriage, work, and childrearing. When she took 
     to the podium in front of 5,000 people with not a shred of 
     paper in hand, my heart stopped, but of course she gave a 
     speech of great substance, an inspiring mix of personal 
     experience and policy analysis--and did so, indeed, 
     without a stammer.
       Leon Friedman remembers a recent Eighth Circuit Judicial 
     Conference in Colorado Springs at which the speakers and 
     panelists included Supreme Court Justices Byron White, John 
     Paul Stevens, and Harry Blackmun, plus various Circuit and 
     District Judges, a United States Senator and Congressman, the 
     head of the Central Intelligence Agency, and a passel of 
     professors. Friedman, a Hofstra Law School professor, and 
     Hillary Clinton of the Rose Law Firm, did joint service on a 
     panel on ``Recent Developments in the Area of Civil Rights.'' 
     He took race, age, and disability, and she took sex 
     discrimination.
       ``I was awed by her technical legal experience,'' says 
     Friedman, ``but what really blew me away was the impromptu 
     keynote address she gave earlier in the day when she was 
     asked to stand in for her husband, the Governor, who was 
     called away on state business. She had no time to prepare, 
     yet she got up there and, without a single note, gave a talk 
     that was so perfectly parsed, so well-organized and elegantly 
     presented that Justice Blackmun just kept raving, `Wasn't 
     Hillary wonderful? Wasn't she great?!'
       ``I remember how she summoned this very distinguished 
     audience of 500 lawyers and judges to think about the well-
     being of the nation's children. She said we must start at the 
     bottom, with attitudes and education. She cited a survey that 
     asked Americans and Europeans, `What is more important to 
     your child's success: hard work or innate ability?' The 
     Europeans said hard work, the Americans said innate ability. 
     She speculated that America's sports culture may cause us to 
     give too much credit to innate ability and we must do things 
     at all levels of society to inspire education and hard work 
     so every child can perform to his or her best potential.
       ``Most people are not used to hearing a woman do public 
     policy analysis. Wives, especially, aren't supposed to effect 
     policy. Wives are supposed to be there to open up the garden 
     in the spring. But we lawyers can recognize intellectual 
     excellence when we see it, and you couldn't miss it with 
     Hillary. I came home and told everyone `Watch out for this 
     woman. You're going to hear more from her.' ''
       Hillary Rodham Clinton is a great national resource, a fine 
     legal mind, an inspiration to aspiring women, a model of the 
     loving yet autonomous wife, a consistent champion of 
     children, and a good soul. I look forward to hearing more 
     from her in the years to come.
                                                                    ____

    Remarks of Ronald F. Pollack, Executive Director, Families, USA

       When I was eleven years old, I had the opportunity to 
     listen to a speech by, and then spend precious moments with, 
     Eleanor Roosevelt. As part of the multiple celebrations that 
     year marking the tenth anniversary of the United Nations, my 
     mother organized a remarkable evening for several thousand 
     New Yorkers, featuring Mrs. Roosevelt.
       My mother organized the event on an unpaid, voluntary 
     basis, but she decided to retain two ``perks'' for her 
     family. First, she made sure that her only child would go on 
     stage to present a bouquet of roses to the former First Lady 
     immediately upon the conclusion of her speech. Then, she made 
     sure that we would transport Mrs. Roosevelt from the event in 
     our family car--an arrangement that undoubtedly presaged the 
     need for a tighter and more protective Secret Service.
       That evening, 40 years ago, is etched indelibly in my 
     memory. Mrs. Roosevelt was eloquent and compassionate, 
     dignified and warm, purposeful and friendly. She inspired a 
     genuine sense of goodness about public life.
       Years later, I carefully observed my daughter's reactions 
     when she met--and when she watched television interviews 
     with--another very remarkable First Lady, Hillary Rodham 
     Clinton. My daughter, Sarah, who (unlike her younger 
     brothers) is not particularly awed by famous people, has an 
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     glow when she listens to the First Lady. On one such occasion, during 
     the Presidential campaign, Sarah declared most emphatically: 
     ``Hillary Clinton makes me feel very good!''
       As Sarah later explained to me, Hillary makes her feel good 
     to be a woman. Sarah finds inspiration and reaffirmation from 
     women who are strong and gentle, determined and kind, and who 
     have a finely-tuned, life-affirming social conscience. It is 
     those qualities that Hillary enlivens in Sarah.
       Above the din of shrill acrimony and demonization that 
     passes as political discourse these days, Sarah--through 
     Hillary's example--has gained a much better understanding 
     about the positive potentialities of public service.
       Sarah's perceptions about the First Lady are well grounded. 
     Of Hillary's many fine qualities that abundantly substantiate 
     Sarah's impressions, three are particularly salient for me.
       First, empathy. Although the First Lady's virtuosity in 
     testifying before five Congressional committees on health 
     reform was properly chronicled, her interactions in meetings 
     with ordinary people were, in my judgment, even more 
     impressive. For people experiencing unfathomable emotions 
     watching loved ones bear the direst consequences of an 
     inequitable health system, Hillary was a reassuring presence. 
     She listened. She consoled. She explained. She gave hope. She 
     infused strength, and she seemed to gain strength in return.
       Second, an indomitable spirit. No one can deny that the 
     First Lady has had to confront difficult, and undoubtedly 
     emotional, moments of a profound adversity during the past 
     four years. But, even during the most troubled periods of the 
     campaign, and the denouement of the health reform fight, and 
     this past November's elections, the First Lady demonstrated a 
     resiliency that is truly remarkable. She remains focused. She 
     moves on. Through her example, and with her words of 
     encouragement, she helps us to find the next, highest ground.
       Third, her unswerving support for low-income and other 
     vulnerable constituencies. Time and again, throughout her 
     career and her ascendancy to national leadership, Hillary 
     Clinton has been a steady, reliable and thoughtful voice for 
     people who are poor and deserve a helping hand. At the Legal 
     Services Corporation, in the fight for universal health 
     coverage, as an eloquent spokesperson for America's children, 
     and in the quest for improved educational opportunities, 
     Hillary Clinton has effectively opened doors and championed 
     new possibilities for ``the other America.'' In so doing, she 
     has enriched us all.
       Sarah instinctively knows why I and our family's best 
     friends, felt overjoyed on the night of November 8, 1992. For 
     so many of us, it was an opportunity to dream once again. 
     Although we now know better how difficult it will be to 
     achieve our dreams, Hillary Rodham Clinton's vitality, 
     inspiration and encouragement will keep us going, keep us 
     working, keep us fighting--and keep us dreaming.
                                                                    ____

    Remarks of Robert Rubin, United States Secretary of the Treasury

       Hillary Rodham Clinton is an unusual woman who has spent 
     her life doing extraordinary things.
       She graduated from law school at a time when few women 
     chose law as a profession. Since then, she has balanced with 
     grace the demands of public life with the pressures of 
     protecting and nurturing a child being raised in the national 
     spotlight. And with great effect, she has used her personal 
     and professional experiences as an advocate for women, 
     children, and families, and to advance their rights in the 
     eyes of the law.
       There is no constitutionally defined job description for 
     the role of First Lady. She can look to tradition, to the 
     times in which she lives, to the demands placed upon her by 
     the President and her family. But the women who have made the 
     greatest impact on our nation are the ones who have blazed a 
     trail that is uniquely their own.
       This is the course Hillary Rodham Clinton has followed so 
     remarkably these last two and one-half years.
       As First Lady, she has opened the White House to more 
     Americans than have visited the First Family's residence in 
     our history. On health care, she opened the policymaking 
     process to victims of disease, families haunted by 
     extraordinary health care expenses, and to the community of 
     healers, practitioners and administrators. As a result, we 
     are closer today than ever before to reforming our nation's 
     health care system.
       Most of all, she has opened the minds and hearts of 
     Americans about the role, the pressures and the opportunities 
     that come with being a First Lady, a mother, and a 
     President's partner at this important time in our history.
       As a member of the President's Cabinet, and as a former 
     member of the President's staff, it has been my privilege to 
     know and admire Hillary Rodham Clinton. She is a wise 
     counselor, an enormously sensitive, decent and compassionate 
     person, and someone to whom we have well entrusted the role 
     of First Lady in our national life.
                                                                    ____


 Remarks of Elie Wiesel, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities, 
             Boston University, Nobel Peace Laureate, 1986

       Hillary Rodham Clinton is worth knowing better. The more 
     closely one observes her, the more impressed one is by her 
     intellectual curiosity and human sensitivity.
       A woman with a mind of her own, deeply committed to social 
     values, she sets high standards for others and ever higher 
     ones for herself.
       She does what she says and says what she wants to say--not 
     what others want to hear.
       Whatever she does, she does well, with genuine though 
     subdued enthusiasm.
       Her language is clear, her words precise, her initiatives 
     courageous. She knows what she wants, though she also knows 
     that one cannot obtain everything one wants.
       I wish she were appointed by the President of the United 
     States to the unpaid cabinet position of Secretary for Human 
     Rights--a field in which she could do wonders for all those 
     who need an intercessor.
                                                                    ____

                Hillary Rodham Clinton Biographical Data

       Born: October 26, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois.
       Husband: President William Jefferson Clinton.
       Daughter: Chelsea Victoria Clinton.
       Education: B.A. Wellesley College, 1969; J.D. Yale Law 
     School, Yale University, 1973.
       Law Practice and Professional Associations: Admitted to 
     Arkansas Bar, 1973; U.S. District Court (Eastern and Western 
     districts of Arkansas); U.S. Court of Appeals (8th Circuit); 
     U.S. Supreme Court, 1975; Children's Defense Fund, Cambridge, 
     MA and Washington, D.C., and Carnegie Council on Children, 
     New Haven, CT, 1973-74; Counsel, Impeachment Inquiry Staff, 
     Judiciary Committee, U.S. House of Representatives, 
     Washington, D.C., 1974; Chair, American Bar Association 
     Commission on Women in the Profession, 1987-91; Chair, Legal 
     Services Corporation, Washington, D.C., 1978-80; Member, 
     Board of Directors, 1977-81; Partner, Rose Law Firm, Little 
     Rock, AR, 1977-92.
       Law Teaching: Assistant Professor of Law and Director of 
     the Legal Aid Clinic; University of Arkansas School of Law at 
     Fayetteville, 1974-76; Assistant Professor of Law, University 
     of Arkansas School of Law at Little Rock, 1979-80.
       Publications: ``Children Under the Law,'' Harvard 
     Educational Review, January 1974;
       Hillary Rodham, Book Note, Children's Policies: Abandonment 
     and Neglect, 86 Yale L.J. 1522 (1977) (reviewing Steiner: The 
     Children's Cause) (1976);
       ``Handbook on Legal Rights for Arkansas Women,'' Carolyn 
     Armbrust [et al.], a project of the Governor's Commission on 
     the Status of Women, 1977, 1987 editions;
       ``Children's Rights: A Legal Perspective,'' Children's 
     Rights, Teachers College Press, New York, 1979;
       ``Teacher Education: Of the People, By the People and For 
     the People,'' Beyond the Looking Glass: Papers from a 
     National Symposium on Teacher Education Policies, Practices, 
     and Research, March 1985 and Journal of Teacher Education, 
     January-February 1985;
       ``The Fight Over Orphanages,'' Newsweek, January 1995;
       ``The War on America's Children,'' New York Newsday, March 
     12, 1995;
       ``Investing in Sisterhood,'' The Washington Post, May 14, 
     1995.
       Honors and Awards:
       Honorary Doctor of Law: University of Arkansas at Little 
     Rock, 1985; Arkansas College, Batesville, Arkansas, 1988; 
     Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas, 1992; University of 
     Michigan, 1993; University of Pennsylvania, 1993; University 
     of Sunderland, England, 1993; University of Illinois, 1994; 
     University of Minnesota, 1995; San Francisco State 
     University, 1995.
       Honorary Doctor of Public Service: The George Washington 
     University, 1994; Who's Who in the World, 1995; Who's Who in 
     America, 1995; Who's Who in American Law, 1994-95; Who's Who 
     of Emerging Leaders in America, 1993-94; Who's Who of 
     American Women, 1993-94; International Who's Who, 1994-95.
       Honorary Life Member, The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
       Arkansas Bar Association and Arkansas Bar Foundation Award, 
     1985
       Arkansas Woman of the Year, 1983
       Phi Delta Kappa Award for Outstanding Layman of the Year, 
     1984
       Pulaski County Bar Association Lawyer Citizen Award, 1987
       Gayle Pettus Pontz Award, Women's Law Student Association, 
     University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, 1989
       Director's Choice Award, National Women's Economic Alliance 
     Foundation, 1991
       Outstanding Lawyer-Citizen Award, Arkansas Bar Association, 
     1992
       Lewis Hine Award, National Lawyer and Child Labor 
     Committee, January 26, 1993
       Albert Schweitzer Leadership Award, Hugh O'Brian Youth 
     Foundation, May 10, 1993
       The Iris Cantor Humanitarian Award, July 19, 1993
       1993 Charles Wilson Lee Citizen Service Award, Committee 
     for Education Funding
       1993 Awareness Achievement Award, National Breast Cancer 
     Awareness Month
       Claude D. Pepper Award, The National Association for Home 
     Care, October 19, 1993
       Distinguished Service Award, National Center for Health 
     Education, November 18, 1993
       Healthcare Advocacy Award, National Symposium of Healthcare 
     Design, November 19, 1993
       National Public Service Award 1993, The Bar Association of 
     the District of Columbia, December 4, 1993

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       Fannie Lou Hamer Human Rights Award, Clergy and Laity 
     Concerned, December 16, 1993
       Distinguished Pro Bono Service Award, San Diego Volunteer 
     Lawyer Program, 1994
       Commitment to Life Award, AIDS Project Los Angeles, January 
     27, 1994
       Distinguished Service Health Education & Prevention Award, 
     National Center for Health Education, February 2, 1994
       First Annual Eleanor Roosevelt Freedom Fighter Award, 
     Alachua County Democratic Executive Committee, March 21, 1994
       Social Justice Award, United Auto Workers, March 22, 1994
       Brandeis Award, School of Law, University of Louisville, 
     April 1, 1994
       Benjamin E. Mays Award, A Better Chance, Inc., April 4, 
     1994
       Ernie Banks Positivism Trophy, Emil Verban Memorial 
     Society, April 6, 1994
       Humanitarian Award, Alzheimer's Association, April 11, 1994
       Elie Wiesel Foundation Award, April 14, 1994
       International Broadcasting Award, Hollywood Radio and 
     Television Society, April 26, 1994
       Ellen Browning Scripps Award, Scripps College, April 26, 
     1994
       Legislator of the Year Award, The American Physical Therapy 
     Association, April 27, 1994
       HIPPY USA Award, May 6, 1994
       Women of the Year Award, Yad B'Yad Award, May 7, 1994
       C. Everett Koop Medical for Health Promotion and Awareness, 
     American Diabetes Association, May 17, 1994
       Distinguished Pro Bono Service Award, San Diego Lawyer's 
     Program, May 17, 1994
       Humanitarian Award, Chicago Chapter, Hadassah Medical 
     Organization, May 26, 1994
       Coalition of Labor Union Women 20th Anniversary Award, May 
     20, 1994
       Women of Distinction Award, National Conference for College 
     Women Student Leaders, June 2, 1994
       Mary Hatwood Futrell Award, National Education Association, 
     June 14, 1994
       Woman of Achievement Award, B'nai B'rith Women, June 15, 
     1994
       Claude Pepper Award, National Association for Home Care 
     Board of Directors, June 19, 1994
       Women's Legal Defense Fund Award, June 23, 1994
       Shining Star Award, Starlight Foundation, August 2, 1994
       Martin Luther King, Jr. Award, Progressive National Baptist 
     Convention, Inc., August 12, 1994
       Children's Diabetes Foundation Brass Ring Award, October 
     28, 1994
       Women's Media Group Award, Women's Media Group, November 1, 
     1994
       American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Family Advocate of 
     the Year Award, Greenfield & Murphy, November 4, 1994.
       Woman of Distinction Award, Women's League for Conservative 
     Judaism, November 13, 1994
       30th Anniversary of Women at Work Award in Public Policy, 
     National Commission on Working Women, December 6, 1994
       Boehm Soaring Eagle Award for Excellence in Leadership, 
     National Women's Economic Alliance Foundation, December 12, 
     1994
       National Woman's Law Center Award, 1994
       Award for Excellence in Communication, Capital Speakers 
     Club, January 18, 1995
       National Federation of Black Women Business Owners Black 
     Women of Courage Award to Hillary Rodham Clinton, February 8, 
     1995
       Greater Washington Urban League Award, March 8, 1995
       Golden Acorn Award, Child Development Center, March 9, 1995
       Servant of Justice Award, New York Legal Aid Society, March 
     23, 1995
       Health Educator of the Year Award, The Ryan White 
     Foundation, April 8, 1995
       Golden Image Award, Women at Work, April 9, 1995
       1995 Outstanding Mother Award, National Mother's Day 
     Committee, April 13, 1995
       Eleanor Roosevelt Award, Citizen's Committee For Children 
     of New York, Inc., April 24, 1995
       United Cerebral Palsy Humanitarian Award, 1995
       World Health Award, American Association for World Health, 
     World Health Day, April 24, 1995
       Brooklyn College, Presidential Medal, 1995
       Memberships and Associations:
       Member, Arkansas Bar Association
       Member, Arkansas Trial Lawyers Association
       Member, Pulaski County Bar Association
       Founder and President, Arkansas Advocates for Children and 
     Families, Founder, President and Member of Board of 
     Directors, 1977-84
       Chair, Arkansas Rural Health Committee, 1979-80
       Chair, Board of Directors, Children's Defense Fund, 
     Washington, D.C., 1986-91, Member, Board of Directors, 1976-
     92
       Chair, Arkansas Education Standards Committee, 1983-84
       Yale Law School Executive Committee, New Haven, CT, 1983-
     88, Treasurer, 1987-88
       Member, Southern Governors Association Task Force on Infant 
     Mortality, 1984-85
       Member, Commission on Quality Education, Southern Regional 
     Education Board, 1984-1992
       Member, Youth and America's Future: The William T. Grant 
     Foundation Commission on Work, Family, and Citizenship, 1986-
     88
       Board of Directors, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 1986-92
       Board of Directors, Child Care Action Campaign, New York, 
     NY, 1986-92
       Board of Directors, Southern Development Bancorporation, 
     1986-92
       Chair, Board of Directors, New World Foundation, New York, 
     1987-88, Member, Board of Directors, 1983-88
       Board of Directors, Co-Chair for Implementation, Commission 
     on Skills of the American Workforce, National Center for 
     Education and the Economy, 1987-92
       Board of Directors, ``I Have a Dream'' Foundation, 1988-89
       Board of Directors, Arkansas Children's Hospital, 1988-92
       Board of Directors, New Futures for Little Rock Youth, 
     1988-92
       Member, HIPPY USA Advisory Board, 1988-92
       Board of Directors, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt 
     Institute, 1988-93
       Charter Member, Business Leadership Council, Wellesley 
     College, 1989
       Board of Directors, Children's Television Workshop, 1989-92
       Board of Directors, TCBY Enterprises, Inc., 1989-92
       Board of Directors, National Alliance of Business Center 
     for Excellence in Education, 1990-91
       Board of Directors, Public/Private Ventures, 1990-92
       Arkansas Business and Education Alliance, 1991-92
       President, Board of Directors, Arkansas Single Parent 
     Scholarship Fund Program, 1990-92
       Chair, National Board of the Claudia Company, 1991-93
       Honorary President of the Girl Scouts of America, 1993-
     present
       Member, Visiting Committee, University of Chicago Law 
     School, 1991-92
       Alumnae Trustee, Wellesley College, 1992-93
              dedicatees of annual survey of american law

       1942 Harry Woodburn Chase
       1943 Frank H. Sommer
       1944 Manley O. Hudson
       1945 Carl McFarland
       1946 Robert M. LaFollette, Jr., A.S. Mike Monroney, George 
     B. Galloway
       1947 Roscoe Pound
       1948 Arthur T. Vanderbilt
       1949 Herbert Hoover
       1950 Bernard Baruch
       *1951 Robert P. Pattersonn
       1952 Phanor J. Eder
       1953 Edward S. Corwin
       1954 Arthur Lehman Goodhart
       1955 John Johnston Parker
       1956 Henry T. Heald
       1957 Herbert F. Goodrich
       1958 Harold H. Burton
       1959 Charles E. Clark
       1960 Whitney North Seymour
       1961 Austin Wakeman Scott
       1962 Fred H. Blume
       1963 Laurence P. Simpson
       *1964 Edmond Cahn
       1965 Charles S. Desmond
       1966 Tom C. Clark
       1967 Francis J. Putman
       1968/69 Russell D. Niles
       1969/70 Jack L. Kroner
       *1970/71 Frank Rowe Kenison
       1971/72 Robert A. Leflar
       1972/73 Justine Wise Polier
       1973/74 Walter J. Derenberg
       1974/75 Robert B. McKay
       1976 Herbert Peterfreund
       1977 Charles D. Breitel
       1978 Henry J. Friendly
       1979 David L. Bazelton
       1980 Edward Weinfeld
       1981 William J. Brennan, Jr.
       1982 Shirley M. Hufstedler
       1983 Thurgood Marshall
       1984 Hans A. Linde
       1985 J. Skelly Wright
       1986 William Wayne Justice
       1987 Frank M. Johnson, Jr.
       1988 Bernard Schwartz
       1989 Barbara Jordan
       1990 Harry A. Blackmun
       1991 Martin Lipton
       1992/93 John Paul Stevens
       1994 Judith S. Kaye
       1995 Hillary Rodham Clinton
     *In memoriam.
     

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