Hillary Clinton, the candidate we know so well - and don't
Longggg article. -- Don
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By JOCELYN NOVECK
Jul. 16, 2016 3:49 AM EDT
When she was about 14, Hillary Clinton says, she wrote to NASA volunteering for astronaut training. NASA's reply was simple and definitive: No girls.
"It was the first time I had hit an obstacle I couldn't overcome with hard work and determination, and I was outraged," she would write in her book, "Living History."
More than a half-century later, and after much hard work, much determination, and most of all, many, many obstacles — some undeniably of her own making — Clinton is no closer to actual space travel. She may have to settle for becoming the first female leader of the free world.
Her journey — more than three decades in the public eye, and counting — has been unlike any seen in American politics: a story of great promise, excruciating setbacks, bitter scandal, stunning comebacks, and especially reinvention — of her own life, and as a result, of the role of women in government. It's one that has fascinated not just her own country, but the world.
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http://bigstory.ap.org/article/2db2d1384e9246d7a83890013e10ed63/hillary-clinton-candidate-we-know-so-well-and-dont
