Hillary Clinton Quotes
When a new president comes in, a new president gets to clean house.
Clinton, Hillary Rodham. "Remarks on the Firing of U.S. Attorneys." Congressional Record, 2007.
The South at the time had a virtual caste system with a few families in each area controlling and leading. Many Unionists from the argued that the lower and middle class whites had to be given more power and education about their rights. Of course the controlling families had a strong vested interest to see that Reconstruction failed and the “Yankees” were hated. Anti-Negro racism was just a part of the motivation. Maintaining the elite families power of the pre-war political culture was also critical. The Northern Reconstuctionists were therefore twice dangerous.
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is an American politician, diplomat, lawyer, writer, and public speaker who served as the 67th United States secretary of state from 2009 to 2013, as a United States senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, and as First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Clinton became the first woman to be nominated for president of the United States by a major political party when she won the Democratic Party nomination in 2016. She was the first woman to win the popular vote in an American presidential election; however, she failed to win the Electoral College.