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A peek into Hillary Clinton's calendar as first lady


A peek into Hillary Rodham Clinton's calendar as first lady:

_At least five meetings from the summer of 1993 until the end of that year aimed at helping her husband win congressional approval of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which she now criticizes and says she wants changed. Some of these meetings also concerned her health care reforms. In one, on Nov. 10, 1993, her schedule shows her speaking about NAFTA to 120 people in a closed meeting.

_June 8, 1993: According to her schedule, the date of her last meeting with close friend and White House adviser Vincent Foster, who killed himself July 20, 1993. Her schedule says she was in California the day of his suicide, and lists no public events the day after.

_Frequent meetings pushing her ultimately unsuccessful health care initiative.

_A July 1993 trip to Japan for G-7 meetings, during which she spent most of her time with wives of leaders and ambassadors while visiting a Tokyo incineration plant for a lecture on the environment. Her campaign aides note that the schedules released Wednesday do not reflect phone calls or unscheduled events or meetings and are not an exhaustive guide to her work.

_May 6, 1994: On the day that Paula Jones' sexual harassment suit was filed against President Clinton, Hillary Clinton addressed Navy nurses in Virginia and a women's health care event on the South Lawn.

_A January 1994 visit to Russia with her husband, her schedule again focused on events with political wives. She sat in on a birthing class at a hospital, toured a cathedral and had lunch with prominent women.

_A September 1995 speech at a U.N. conference in China where she declared "women's rights are human rights."

_Aug. 21, 1996: Hillary Clinton was part of the public face of presidential bill signings. In the stage directions for the signing of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, the calendar states: "HRC will not have a role but will be seated in the front row."

_A Dec. 19, 1998, holiday dinner in a pavilion on the South Lawn, the evening of Bill Clinton's impeachment by the House on two articles of perjury and obstruction of justice arising from his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. The schedule says: "Upon conclusion of dinner, the President and First Lady have the first dance (optional)."

_When Senate voted to acquit Bill Clinton on impeachment charges on Feb. 12, 1999, Hillary Clinton met privately that morning with the Tanzanian first lady and the country's ambassador to the U.S. She also held other private meetings throughout the day.

_A week after the Senate acquitted her husband on impeachment charges, Hillary Clinton had a private lunch with New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who had announced he would not seek another term in 2000. In February 2000, she announced she would run for the Senate seat.

_A May 1999 trip to Macedonia, where she urged Macedonia's president and prime minister to keep the border open for refugees from Kosovo.

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