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Hillary Clinton enters womens’ hall of fame

NASA’s lone female commander Eileen Collins and ex-secretary of state Madeleine Albright join her

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NEW YORK: Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said she was extremely proud to enter the National Women’s Hall of Fame on Saturday, joining other distinguished women such as NASA’s lone female commander Eileen Collins and ex-secretary of state Madeleine Albright.

“I am extremely proud to help highlight the contributions of women to our great nation throughout our history — not just the heroines who blazed the trail before us, but also the women whose stories have yet to be told, who are holding families together, lifting up communities and performing heroic acts everyday across America,” Clinton told reporters. 

One of the most popular Democratic politicians, Clinton has not said if she will run for the presidency in 2008, but she is currently seen as one of the clear frontrunners. With what is widely thought to be an eye to 2008, Hillary has already been toning down her ultra liberal image, seeking out the middle ground on contentious issues like abortion.

She leads her party in opinion polls for the 2008 presidential election, with 42 percent saying they would vote for her. According to the Marist poll, Clinton leads a field of likely Democrats, beating both former challenger John Kerry and his running mate John Edwards. Democrats including Delaware senator Joseph Biden, New Mexico governor Bill Richards and Iowa governor Tom Vilsack are in a crowded pack of potential candidates with single digit support, said the poll.

A Yale law school-trained lawyer, Clinton was in private practice from 1977 until 1992, becoming an expert on children’s rights. After her husband’s election as president, she initially played a visible role in his administration, co-chairing the task force that proposed changes in the US health care system. She was less publicly involved in policy issues after that program failed to gain support. She won US sympathy for her support of her husband during the Lewinsky scandal.

In 2000, Clinton won an election as a Democrat to the US senate from New York, becoming the first wife of a president to win an election to public office. She is also the author of It Takes a Village and the memoir Living History.

The National Women’s Hall of fame was founded in 1969 in Seneca Falls, New York. The foundation has inducted more than 200 women including writer Harriet Beech Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin and actress Ann Bancroft.

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