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LEADERSHIP SECRETS OF HILLARY CLINTON

You taught me so much, you made me laugh, and . . .
you even made me cry. You allowed me to become
part of your lives. And you became part of mine.
I will always remember the single mom who had
adopted two kids with autism, didn’t have health
insurance and discovered she had cancer. But she
greeted me with her bald head painted with my name
on it and asked me to fight for health care.
I will always remember the young man in a
Marine Corps T-shirt who waited months for med-
ical care and said to me: “Take care of my buddies; a
lot of them are still over there . . . and then will you
please help take care of me?”
I will always remember the boy who told me his
mom worked for the minimum wage and that her
employer had cut her hours. He said he just didn’t
know what his family was going to do.
I will always be grateful to everyone from all fifty
states, Puerto Rico, and the territories, who joined
our campaign on behalf of all those people left out
and left behind by the Bush Administration.
To my supporters, my champions—my sisterhood
of the traveling pantsuits—from the bottom of my
heart: Thank you.

And then she came back with a charge to the troops to
get Barack Obama elected in order to address these chal-

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