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In reply to the discussion: Do you believe HRC, if elected President, will rein in Wall Street and regulate it properly? [View all]TBF
(35,174 posts)"As First Lady of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992 with her husband as Governor, she led a task force that reformed Arkansas's education system. During that time, she was on the board of directors of Wal-Mart and several other corporations." - from wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Rodham_Clinton
From the NYTimes:
Mrs. Clintons six-year tenure as a director of Wal-Mart, the nations largest company, remains a little known chapter in her closely scrutinized career. And it is little known for a reason. Mrs. Clinton rarely, if ever, discusses it, leaving her board membership out of her speeches and off her campaign Web site.
Fellow board members and company executives, who have not spoken publicly about her role at Wal-Mart, say Mrs. Clinton used her position to champion personal causes, like the need for more women in management and a comprehensive environmental program, despite being Wal-Marts only female director, the youngest and arguably the least experienced in business. On other topics, like Wal-Marts vehement anti-unionism, for example, she was largely silent, they said.
Her years on the Wal-Mart board, from 1986 to 1992, gave her an unusual tutorial in the ways of American business a credential that could serve as an antidote to Republican efforts to portray her as an enemy of free markets and an advocate for big government.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/us/politics/20walmart.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
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