Rarely able to sleep in, hillary Clinton got up early one February morning in 1995 and glanced at stories on the front page of The Washington Post. Nothing too exciting: a federal crackdown on telemarketers, a marathon swimmer setting a record. Then a headline caught Hillary's eye. The Defense Department was attempting to slash $150 million for breast-cancer research that had been tucked into the Pentagon budget. The First Lady was furious. For years she'd worked to raise awareness about the disease and fund efforts to find a cure. Now her own administration was cutting back. She quickly called hertop staffers: this is wrong, she told them.
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