washingtonpost.comRuth Bader Ginsburg, Bill and Hillary Clinton reminisce about her nomination
Robert Barnes
“If you worried about my age, it was unnecessary,” she said. Ginsburg is now 86 and entering her 27th year on the court. She and the Clintons reminisced about the old days at an annual lecture named for her.
Bill Clinton repeated that he knew within 10 minutes of interviewing then-Judge Ginsburg that he would offer her the job, although his first choice was New York Gov. Mario Cuomo.
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Hillary Clinton said she liked to think she had something to do with Ginsburg’s nomination as well. “I may have expressed an opinion or two about people he should move up” the list of possibilities, she said.
McLarty Family Establishes Hillary Clinton Fellowship
Clinton Fellowship
A research fellowship at the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security is being established in Hillary Clinton’s name by Thomas F. “Mack” and Donna McLarty along with their sons, Mark and Franklin, Franklin’s wife, Gabriella and their daughter, Brianna.
Established through the McLarty Global Fellowship program, it will provide one year of funding for a graduate of the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service.
Hillary Clinton and the McLartys are longtime friends.
Mack McLarty served as President Bill Clinton’s first White House Chief of Staff and Donna McLarty has worked with Hillary Clinton on a variety of issues in Washington and Arkansas, including the founding of Vital Voices Global Partnership. Vital Voices Global Partnership is an international non-governmental organization which invests in and trains emerging women leaders.
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