NYT: Pennsylvania Ties Could Help Clinton (Links to home movie clips from Hillary's childhood.)

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Pennsylvania Ties Could Help Clinton
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
Published: March 10, 2008


(Price Family)
A young Hillary Rodham in an old home movie.

SCRANTON, Pa. — She is about 3 1/2 years old, a prim little blonde in a light dress, road-testing her white anklets and Mary Janes. Her mother, slim and stylish in a 1940s fitted suit, hat and strapped white heels, clutches her hand and guides her down some outdoor steps.

Then the daughter breaks free and rushes exuberantly toward the camera, an uninhibited assertion by little Hillary Rodham that she is ready for her close-up.

The scene unspools in a grainy black-and-white home movie, circa 1951. Hazel Price, 82, who used to live next door to the Rodhams here on Diamond Street, recently dug it up, providing fresh evidence of the Rodham roots in Northeast Pennsylvania. It is destined, no doubt, for wider distribution in advance of next month’s Pennsylvania Democratic presidential primary between Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.

When Mrs. Clinton comes to Pennsylvania on Monday, her first visit to the state after winning Ohio and Texas last week, her first stop will be Scranton, where her familial ties extend deeper than they do in Park Ridge, Ill., the Chicago suburb where she grew up. Look for the image shapers to link the values of this gritty region — where her grandfather, descended from Welsh coal miners, raised his family — to her character and especially her perseverance.

“She’s tough,” Christopher Doherty, Scranton’s mayor, said in an interview. “That’s a real Scranton trait. That’s an anthracite trait.”...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/10/us/politics/10scranton.html?ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=all

NOTE TO THE HILLARY GROUP: Our family is divided in our support, and Hillary supporters are among my closest and dearest loved. I know you're outnumbered here, and I appreciate your staying through all of this. Hold your heads high: you support a great, groundbreaking woman! If she is the nominee, our divided family will unite in enthusiastic support for her.

I regret that the contest between two candidates has caused such division on our board.

Best regards,

DMM

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1. Thanks for the post

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2. Oh, thank you, DMM, for your thoughtfulness in posting this here.

You remain one of the most decent people on DU who posts lots of very helpful and informative articles. Thank you so much.

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3. That's a really cute pic of our gal there. Folks-go to the NYT page and click on the video...

...on lower left. See the exuberant little 3-year-old Hillary in action!

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4. Kick for something positive for Hill in the NY Times! nt

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5. Thanks DMM

I appreciate your sense of fairness in presenting informative pieces on all our candidates. :hug:

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6. Kick!

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7. How wonderful of you to post this here, DMM!

Thank you for your thoughtfulness.