Since Sunday it is official: Hillary Clinton, the wife of the former president of the USA Bill Clinton, wants to become president of America in the 2016 presidential election. Hillary Clinton was born in Chicago in 1947 and served alongside her husband in the White House between 1993 and 2001 First Lady in the White House. Now she wants to move there again, but this time as president. It is already Clinton’s second candidacy for the office of U.S. president. She had already applied for this office in 2008, but she lost to the current president, Barack Obama, at the Primaries. In 2001, Clinton made it into the US Senate. There she was a senator until 2008 when she was Secretary of State appointed in the administration of President Obama. She held this office until 2013.
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Hillary Clinton As The First Woman In The White House
Hillary Clinton would be the first woman to hold the office of U.S. President. Although since the first president of the USA, George Washington, 227 years have passed, no woman has ever managed to reach the highest political office in the US. She has already proven that she is a good politician in the office of Secretary of State. During her tenure, she visited more than 100 countries, and her main goal was to improve relations between Russia and the U.S., but she did not succeed.
Clinton Wants To Become The President Of Hardworking Americans
In a 2-minute video Clinton posted on her Homepage website on Sunday, she sides with the hardworking Americans who make the country great and successful. In doing so, she hopes to get workers, Retired, and families to vote for her if they want a happy life in the future, Clinton said.
Explanation Of Difficult Words
The USA is an abbreviation for “The United States of Amerika” in German.
First Lady is the name given to the wife of a president in the USA.
In the USA, several candidates per party can always stand for election. In the primaries, one of them is then selected by-election to run as a candidate for his party in the presidential campaign.
The U.S. Senate is a part of the U.S. Congress, i.e. the Parliament. Its members are sent to the Senate from the individual states of the USA and help decide on laws, for example.
The Secretary of State is responsible for a country’s foreign policy, including relations with other countries.
George Washington was the first president of the USA from 1789 to 1797.
“Homepage” is the English word for “Internet page”.
A pensioner is a person of advanced age who no longer works.
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