FIRST LADY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON - EPHEMERA SIGNED - HFSID 274856

HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON. Ephemera signed: "Hillary R Clinton". Unopened plastic packing (6½x9½x1½) containing 4¼-inch long Hot Wings Collectors Edition model of Air Force One on a 6-inch strip of runway. Signed in felt tip on front plastic cover. Hillary Rodham, graduate of Wellesley College and Yale Law School, married William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton in 1975. Their daughter Chelsea was born in 1980. While actively practicing law herself, she spent 12 years as First Lady of Arkansas (1978-1980, 1982-1992). Since 1982, she has preferred to be called by her married name. As First Lady during the Presidency of Bill Clinton (1993-2001): she set several firsts, including: first with a postgraduate degree, first to have practiced law, and, in 2007, the first to be elected to public office on her own. She was elected US Senator from New York in 2000, and re-elected in a landslide in 2006. As First Lady, Hillary Clinton took an active role in public policy, beginning by chairing the National Task Force on Health Care Reform. While the Clinton health care proposals were defeated in Congress, and probably contributed to the Republican take-over of the Congress in 1994, she had more success on other issues, including successful advocacy of the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997. In the Senate, Clinton sits on five committees, including Armed Services, and Environment and Public Works. As a Senator, she has worked hard to prove herself a moderate, able to work effectively across party lines, but many public perceptions of her nationally - not in New York - hardened in the 1990s and have proved difficult to change. On January 20, 2007, she launched an exploratory committee for her own Presidential bid, declaring: "I'm in, and I'm in to win." Fine condition.