senate candidate hillary rodham clinton raises her arms at the beginning of a campaign rally   in brighton, n.y., on nov. 6, 2000. | ap photo by andrew glass 10/30/16 11:55 pm edt on this day in 2000, president bill clinton campaigned in new york city for his wife, hillary clinton, who was running for the senate. this was the first time a first lady had sought a u.s. senate seat. the seat was being vacated by democratic sen. daniel patrick moynihan , who urged her to run. that evening, bill clinton spoke at a dinner that hillary also attended at the fitzpatrick hotel in new york, sponsored by an irish-american association. although he cited his own role in brokering peace talks between protestants and roman catholics in northern ireland, the main thrust of his remarks was to try to persuade new yorkers to vote for his wife. story continued below at the time, the presidential couple had just purchased a home in suburban westchester county, where they intended to move when his term ended on jan. 20, 2001. bill told the group that while he had known many politicians over the years, <u+201c>of all the people i<u+2019>ve known, she has the best combination of brains, compassion, determination and ability to get people together and get things done. she will be a fabulous senator.<u+201d> he went on to extol his wife<u+2019>s involvement in social issues, particularly her contribution to the irish peace process. as a member of a women<u+2019>s group called vital voices, hillary had visited northern ireland in 1995 to seek a solution to decades of sectarian violence. bill recounted how she had told him, <u+201c>if we can just get all these [irish] women together, they<u+2019>d figure out a way to get over this problem.<u+201d> bill told the irish-american audience that hillary was one of those <u+201c>troublesome women going around upsetting apple carts everywhere [who] don<u+2019>t like it when troglodyte males keep wars going on.<u+201d> despite never having resided in new york prior to the campaign, hillary became the first woman elected to the u.s. senate from that state. in both her unsuccessful 2008 bid for the democratic presidential nomination and the current presidential contest, her husband has reiterated many of the same broad themes he first raised in 1999. 2016 by gabriel debenedetti on nov. 7, 2000, hillary clinton, having overcome allegations of carpetbagging, won the race with 55 percent of the vote to 43 percent for her republican opponent, rep. rick lazio. she went on to be easily reelected in 2006 before resigning her senate seat in 2009 to accept an offer from barack obama, the president-elect and her main 2008 primary rival, to join his cabinet as secretary of state. source: <u+201c>a woman in charge: the life of hillary clinton,<u+201d> by carl bernstein (2007) by bill scher by thomas wright by joshua zeitz by jack shafer
president bill clinton stumps for his wife, oct. 31, 2000 - politico
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