Hillary’s Husband
Re-elected:
the Clinton
Marriage of
Politics and Power.
Erica Jong
Hillary Rodham Clinton
The First Lady of
●Arkansas from 1983 to 1992
●USA from 1993 to 2001
 She was the first First Lady to hold a
postgraduate degree & have a
professional career right up until
she lived in the White House
 There were many mixed opinions
about her and her intelligence, most
people didn’t like it
 She’ll be running for president in
2016
Bill Clinton
The 42nd president of USA
3rd youngest president
Took office at the end of the Cold
War & was the first president of the
baby boomer generation
A baby boomer is a person
who was born during the
demographic post-World War
II baby boom between the
years 1946 and 1964
Hillary and Bill Clinton
The two married 5
years after having
first met.
They’re seen as one
of the most political
couples
Bill said during his campaign that if they
elected him, they’d get ‘two for the price
of one’ and get 2 presidents
Our culture treats political women differently to political men.
 The majority of people in the USA didn’t like
Hillary’s intelligence
Most men and also women are often against
women being political
Many political women were given nicknamed ‘Iron
Lady’, most famously for Margaret Thatcher
For Hillary, she was frequently compared to Lady
Macbeth
First Ladies of USA
Hillary was one of the most different First Ladies.
Barbara Bush
Was concerned with
family literacy
Laura Bush
Was concerned with
education and
women’s health
Michelle Obama
Was concerned
military and
working families,
however the media
focuses on her
fashion sense
Re-casting Task
You have been asked to write an entry in Wikipedia about Hillary and Bill Clinton’s
marriage.
Use the information from all of Erica Jong’s article, Hillary’s Husband Re-elected:
the Clinton Marriage of Politics and Power.
You should adapt the source material, using your own words as far as possible but
not using direct quotations from Jong’s article. The text of your entry should be
approximately 300-400 words in length.
In your adaption you should:
• Use language appropriately to address purpose and audience
• Write accurately and coherently, applying relevant ideas and concepts
(25 marks)