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There are those who believe that women will propel Hillary Clinton to the presidency in November, seizing the opportunity to put the first of their kind in the White House.
This time, 96 years after women nationwide were given the constitutional right to vote, she will become the first woman ever nominated for the White House by one of the major political parties.
PHILADELPHIA — With his white-knuckle approach to speechwriting — making changes in the text until the final millisecond — Bill Clinton as president always courted disaster. And then transcended it.
Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, Vice President Joe Biden, and Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders will all give testimonials sure to highlight Clinton’s strengths.
There is some symmetry to the Clinton and McGinty campaigns. Clinton would be the first woman president. McGinty would be Pennsylvania’s first woman senator.
And if Trump gets to the White House, they say, a Vice President Pence can be counted on to be a terrific middle man between a president without any government experience and a House GOP Conference
Together, we will lead our party back to the White House and we will lead our country back to safety, prosperity and peace.
] The trouble really started just before the convention, when it became clear that forces in Trumpville were battling each other to force the Donald’s hand on whether to pick Pence or former House
“And, just last week, … Clinton Democrats in the Senate blocked a bill aimed at eradicating that virus before it can spread,” he said. “And, they weren’t finished.
That would be even more Reaganesque than Ronald Reagan, whose 1980 Republican convention speech hammered Jimmy Carter’s America but lacked a little bit of the sunny polish he later had in the White House
He did talk of the need to win back the White House, and he used Trump’s “Make America Great Again ” slogan. But, tellingly, Sullivan never said Trump’s name. Sen.
The House will take up legislation to overhaul the criminal justice system in September, Speaker Paul D. Ryan said.
Clinton administration.
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette: The Detroit Free Press reported that Schuette said he will speak at the convention.
, former President Bill Clinton.
Republican lawmakers and aides, for their part, often describe a 44th president and White House staff that often is unwilling to compromise and unskilled at finding common ground when it tries.
Maloney offered his amendment again on the energy and water appropriations bill the House took up the following week.
Why, after all the white male candidates who have lived in the White House and sat in the Oval Office, are so many Americans trying to pretend it’s nothing to see here when it comes to acknowledging
Once she was Senator Clinton of New York, a White House run seemed almost inevitable with the only question being which year.
Verrilli was a deputy White House counsel when Obama nominated him as solicitor general in January 2011 amid the controversy of the administration declining to defend the Defense of