[Imc-chicago-audio] Hillary for Class President at InTheseTimes.com

[In These Times]

Press Contact: Joel Bleifuss
Phone: 773.772.0100
Fax: 773.772.4180
Email: jbleifuss at inthesetimes.com

This Week's Featured Article at InTheseTimes.com:
"Hillary for Class President: Chocolate Chip Cookies and Her Eighth Grade 
Campaign," by Betsy Vandercook

Contrary to popular belief, Hillary Clinton has run for president before. 

The year was 1960, when Clinton was a junior high student in the Chicago 
suburb of Park Ridge. In a special feature published today on In These 
Times' web site (http://ent.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j=208344150&u=2137773), Betsy Vandercook, a former classmate 
of Clinton and supporter of her campaign for class president, recalls that race - 
and another campaign for the White House:

"She later told me that she lost because all the boys in the class-and a few of 
the girls- believed a girl couldn't be president.

That campaign was our bonding experience-I joined Hillary's circle. We ate at 
the same lunch table, and together in the late fall of 1960, we experienced 
another presidential race -between John Kennedy and Richard Nixon.  

For all of us, being Republican and Protestant (Hillary and I were both Methodists 
with dangles of Sunday-school pins to prove it), only one person was qualified 
to win that election-and he wasn't Catholic."

As Barack Obama and Clinton head toward yet another - possibly final - 
showdown in North Carolina and Indiana Tuesday, take a few minutes to enjoy 
Vandercook's account, at http://ent.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j=208344150&u=2137774, of another momentous 
presidential election 48 years ago.

"This is Hillary Rodham," she said, "Calling from Emerson Junior High School in 
Park Ridge. I want you to tell Mayor Daley that it was wrong of him to steal the 
election, and that Richard Nixon should have won!"

Then we went back to our table, and finished our milk and shared our cookies. 
We knew that we had just been a part of something out of the ordinary-that 
for a moment we weren't powerless teenage girls."

Read the piece, titled "Hillary, Cookies and Campaigns: The Presidential Prequel," 
at http://ent.groundspring.org/EmailNow/pub.php?module=URLTracker&cmd=track&j=208344150&u=2137775. 


Betsy Elich Vandercook, like Hillary Rodham Clinton, left the Chicago suburbs long 
ago. But unlike Hillary, she returned to Chicago, where she raised a family, 
worked as an environmentalist and wrote occasional commentary for the Chicago 
Tribune. Currently, she serves as a chief of staff to Democratic alderman Joe 
Moore in Chicago's 49th Ward. She has no higher political aspirations.

Betsy Vandercook can be reached at (312) 339-4781.





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