Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton: on Government Reform

Hillary Clinton: 1970s: Worked on 18-year-old voting Amendment

Joining Hillary on the dais at the League of Women Voters was Marian Wright Edelman, later the founder of Children’s Defense League, the convention’s keynote speaker and a women who would become one of Hillary’s most important and influential friends. After graduating from Yale Law School in 1963, Edelman had become the first black woman admitted to the bar in Mississippi, and she was a tireless worker for children’s rights. A few months earlier, Hillary had also met Edelman’s husband, Peter, a Harvard Law School graduate who had clerked for Justice Arthur J. Goldberg of the Supreme Court. The Edelmans were lobbying Congress to pass an amendment to the Constitution that would lower the voting age from 21 to 18. Hillary endorsed the change: “If young people were old enough to fight, they were entitled to vote.” Source: Her Way, by Jeff Gerth & Don Van Natta, p. 41 Jun 8, 2007

The above quotations are from Her Way The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton, by Jeff Gerth & Don Van Natta Jr. . Click here for definitions & background information on Government Reform. Click here for other issues (main summary page). Click here for more quotes by Hillary Clinton on Government Reform. Click here for more quotes by Bill Clinton on Government Reform.
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