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*​**Correct The Record Friday October 10, 2014 Afternoon Roundup:*

*Tweets:*

*Correct The Record* @CorrectRecord: .@ShellyPorges
<https://twitter.com/shellyporges> says @HillaryClinton
<https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton>'s CHARGE initiative will "break down
barriers" to educating girls. http://www.cnbc.com/id/102077692
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<https://twitter.com/CorrectRecord/status/520624109152403456>]

*Correct The Record* @CorrectRecord: .@GeneralClark
<https://twitter.com/GeneralClark> on @DRshow <https://twitter.com/drshow>:
"It would be a great thing ... if we elect @HillaryClinton
<https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton> to be our next president"
https://www.youtube.com/v/uD9pOyUwe3I?start=1536&end=1599 …
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*Correct The Record* @CorrectRecord: .@HillaryClinton
<https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton> successfully fought to improve mental
health benefits for veterans #MIAW
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/MIAW?src=hash>#HRC365
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/HRC365?src=hash> #TimetoTalk
<https://twitter.com/hashtag/TimetoTalk?src=hash> http://1.usa.gov/1sl3sVs
<http://t.co/oF7Yw56GCw>[10/9/14, 2:58 p.m. EDT
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*Headlines:*

*CNBC opinion: Shelly Porges: “Let's tear down barriers to educating girls”
<http://www.cnbc.com/id/102077692>*

“Last month, at the 10th annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting, Hillary
Clinton announced a $600 million effort called CHARGE, which will help 14
million disadvantaged girls throughout the world attend secondary school.”

*Associated Press, via Lexington Herald-Leader: “Hillary Rodham Clinton to
campaign for Grimes”
<http://www.kentucky.com/2014/10/10/3473757_hillary-rodham-clinton-to-campaign.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&rh=1>*

“The Kentucky Democrat's campaign says the former U.S. secretary of state
and potential presidential candidate in 2016 will campaign for Grimes next
Wednesday night in Louisville.”

*Politico: “Clinton Library releases final batch of secret files”
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/clinton-white-house-records-release-111777.html?hp=f3>*

“The last batch in a series of previously-undisclosed Clinton White House
records went public Friday, spilling secrets on the creation of the Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell policy, high-profile controversies involving Whitewater and
the White House Travel Office, and then-First Lady Hillary Clinton’s
unsuccessful health care reform drive.”

*Associated Press: “Clinton Offers Themes That Could Shape 2016 Bid”
<http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_HILLARY_CLINTON?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT>*

“Clinton has announced no decisions about her political future but she is
beginning to describe themes that could animate a future campaign.”

*Associated Press: “Former ‘SNL’ Cast Member Jan Hooks Dies at Age 57”
<http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBIT_JAN_HOOKS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT>*

“Besides impersonations that included Bette Davis and Hillary Rodham
Clinton, Hooks won laughs for original characters such as Candy, half of
the bouffant-haired Sweeney Sisters lounge act.”

*Articles:*

*CNBC opinion: Shelly Porges: “Let's tear down barriers to educating girls”
<http://www.cnbc.com/id/102077692>*

By Shelly Porges, national finance co-chair for Ready for Hillary

October 10, 2014

Expanding economic participation is one of the most effective tools we have
to strengthen the economy and create jobs. So why do we continue to leave
out women, half of the world's population? By empowering women economically
— harnessing this untapped resource and growing the global economy —
everyone benefits. But first, we have to educate them. As the saying goes:
If you educate a man, you educate a person, but if you educate a woman, you
educate a whole nation.

As we've seen here in America, when women are given access to education,
they soar. While we continue the fight to empower women economically here
in the U.S. — through equal pay and other measures — we also recognize how
far we've come, with women making up 57 percent of the workforce, 60
percent of our college graduates and 70 percent of our high school
valedictorians.

But in the developing world, the fight is just beginning.

Today, over 30 million girls don't attend secondary school, 80 percent of
whom live in Sub-Saharan and West Africa. In these areas, the barriers
preventing girls from getting an education seem insurmountable. Girls are
discouraged, if not forbidden, from attending school, and for those who can
attend, the quality of education is low and the safety risks are high.

We realized just how high the risks were when 300 Nigerian girls were
kidnapped by the terrorist organization Boko Haram recently. The tragedy
received international attention. Using the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls,
millions of people expressed their support for the kidnapped girls and
encouraged their safe return.

The benefits to societies of educating girls are well-documented and
include lower birth rates, better health, lower infant mortality, fewer
teenage marriages and pregnancies, and greater economic well being not only
for women, but for the entire community in which they live.

Boko Haram translates to "Western Education is Forbidden" and serves as a
reminder of the barriers preventing girls in the developing world from
getting an education, becoming economically empowered, reaching their full
potential, and strengthening the economy for us all. And it has spurred
some to take action to break down those barriers.

Last month, at the 10th annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting, Hillary
Clinton announced a $600 million effort called CHARGE, which will help 14
million disadvantaged girls throughout the world attend secondary school.
CHARGE – the Collaborative for Harnessing Ambition and Resources for Girls'
Education – will work to break down the barriers that are preventing girls
in the developing world from completing secondary education.

CHARGE was developed with five main goals in mind: To keep girls in school,
ensure schools are safe, improve the quality of learning for girls, support
transitions into and out of school, and to support girls' education leaders
and workers in developing countries to fulfill these goals.

When making the announcement, Hillary Clinton said, "We know that when
girls have equal access to education in both primary and secondary schools,
cycles of poverty are broken, economies grow, glass ceilings crack, and
potential is unleashed."

Let's educate our girls. Let's unleash their potential. Let's strengthen
the economy. And of course, let's bring back our girls.

*Associated Press, via Lexington Herald-Leader: “Hillary Rodham Clinton to
campaign for Grimes”
<http://www.kentucky.com/2014/10/10/3473757_hillary-rodham-clinton-to-campaign.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&rh=1>*

[No Writer Mentioned]

October 10, 2014

LOUISVILLE, KY. — U.S. Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes is getting
help from another Clinton — this time from Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The Kentucky Democrat's campaign says the former U.S. secretary of state
and potential presidential candidate in 2016 will campaign for Grimes next
Wednesday night in Louisville. Grimes spokeswoman Charly Norton said Friday the
event is open to the public, and free tickets will be available at
Democratic headquarters in all 120 Kentucky counties.

Clinton's husband, former President Bill Clinton, has made two trips to
Kentucky this year to makes pitches for Grimes in Louisville, Lexington and
Hazard in eastern Kentucky. Bill Clinton carried Kentucky both times he won
the White House in the 1990s.

Grimes is challenging Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in one of the
nation's mostly closely watched campaigns.

*Politico: “Clinton Library releases final batch of secret files”
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/clinton-white-house-records-release-111777.html?hp=f3>*

By Josh Gerstein

October 10, 2014, 1:04 p.m. EDT

The last batch in a series of previously-undisclosed Clinton White House
records went public Friday, spilling secrets on the creation of the Don’t
Ask, Don’t Tell policy, high-profile controversies involving Whitewater and
the White House Travel Office, and then-First Lady Hillary Clinton’s
unsuccessful health care reform drive.

The Clinton Presidential Library, which is run by the National Archives,
released nearly 10,000 pages of records online detailing confidential
advice given to President Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and other top aides
as they handled a myriad of sensitive policy issues and battled
Congressional and criminal independent counsel investigations into the
scandals and perceived scandals of the 1990s.

The legal authority relied on to withhold the records expired in January
2013, 12 years after Bill Clinton left office. However, none of the records
were released until February of this year, after POLITICO reported that the
long-secret files were in limbo.

The records releases have been closely watched by political operatives and
journalists alike, since the files could shed light on Hillary Clinton’s
White House activities and fuel questions she faces about aspects of her
record as she prepares for a possible bid for the presidency.

Three days after POLITICO inquired with the President Barack Obama’s White
House in February about why none of the so-called previously withheld
records had been released, White House lawyer David Sandler emailed the
Archives, approving the release of thousands of pages of documents,
Archives records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show.

The very next day, Clinton representative Bruce Lindsey signed off on
disclosing the same batch of records — a trove so large that it has taken
the library months to organize and post online.

Either Obama or Clinton could have moved to prevent disclosure of some of
the records. Despite the lengthy review process, neither did, according to
an Archives spokeswoman.

However, the release Friday of the final set of previously-restricted
records does not mean all the Clinton-era White House records are now
available for public view. Far from it.

Tens of millions of pages and millions of e-mails have yet to be processed
by archivists. In addition, some of the records that have been processed
remain off-limits to the public on national security or privacy grounds. It
also appears that some legal advice given to the Clintons has been deemed
to be personal records, not covered by the Presidential Records Act.
Records related solely to political matters can also be put off limits
under the same rationale.

*Associated Press: “Clinton Offers Themes That Could Shape 2016 Bid”
<http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_HILLARY_CLINTON?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT>*

By Ken Thomas

October 10, 2014, 12:46 p.m. EDT

As she explores another presidential campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton often
says anyone who seeks the White House needs a compelling message and an
agenda for the country.

Clinton has announced no decisions about her political future but she is
beginning to describe themes that could animate a future campaign.

At a Thursday night rally for Tom Wolf, the front-running gubernatorial
candidate in Pennsylvania, Clinton described a Democratic Party that
"stands for families, stands for working people, stands for fairness and
justice."

Pointing to equal pay for women, a boost in the minimum wage and stronger
family leave policies, she declared, "a 20th century economy will not work
for 21st century families. It is past time for a fresh start."

Wolf, who faces Republican Gov. Tom Corbett in next month's election, has
used the "fresh start" tagline during his campaign but Clinton adopted it,
an indication of how she might campaign during President Barack Obama's
final two years. It was Clinton's first appearance at a public campaign
rally this fall and came before about 1,000 Democrats at an event near
Philadelphia's Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence was
adopted and the U.S. Constitution was signed.

As Democrats try to maintain their Senate majority and win governors'
races, Clinton has embarked on an extensive campaign schedule on behalf of
her party. She is helping several Democratic women on the ballot, including
those in states where Obama remains unpopular like North Carolina's Sen.
Kay Hagan and Senate candidates Alison Lundergan Grimes of Kentucky and
Michelle Nunn of Georgia.

She'll headline events next week in Colorado, Nevada, Kentucky and Michigan
and travels to New Hampshire in early November to boost Sen. Jeanne Shaheen
and Gov. Maggie Hassan in the nation's first presidential primary state.

During her summertime book tour, Clinton stumbled over questions about her
family's wealth, at one point telling an interviewer that she and former
President Bill Clinton were "dead broke" when they left the White House
because of legal bills. Mrs. Clinton can now command $200,000 and more for
paid speeches, even though she says many of the events have benefited her
family's philanthropic foundation.

Liberals often question whether Clinton is too close to Wall Street from
her days as a New York senator and worry she might not champion an agenda
targeting economic inequality, themes expressed by Massachusetts Sen.
Elizabeth Warren and others. But on Thursday, the former first lady offered
glimpses of how she might address those concerns.

In her speech, Clinton, a newly-minted grandmother, said a nurse working at
the hospital where baby Charlotte was born thanked her for advocating for
paid maternity leave, which she says resonated with new mothers trying to
balance work and family.

"You should not have to be the grandchild of a president to get a good
education, to get good health care," Clinton said, urging that "we give
every child in Pennsylvania the same chance that I'm determined to give my
granddaughter."

Her speech included critiques of Republicans who seek to encroach on female
reproductive rights and opponents of gay marriage.

Clinton, whose family foundation has received millions from corporate
sponsors, said corporations "seem to have all of the rights but none of the
responsibilities of people."

While the event aimed to mobilize female Democratic voters for Wolf,
anticipation about Clinton's future was a recurring theme. Clinton beat
Obama in the 2008 Democratic primary in Pennsylvania and Philadelphia is
vying to stage the 2016 Democratic National Convention, where Clinton could
potentially become the first female presidential nominee of a major party.

"She's been a leader for all of us," Rep. Allyson Schwartz, D-Pa., told the
crowd. "And she's not done."

*Associated Press: “Former ‘SNL’ Cast Member Jan Hooks Dies at Age 57”
<http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBIT_JAN_HOOKS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT>*

[No Writer Mentioned]

October 10, 2014, 11:39 a.m. EDT

Former "Saturday Night Live" cast member Jan Hooks, whose impressions
ranged from Nancy Reagan to Sinead O'Connor to Tammy Faye Bakker during a
five-year stint on the show, has died.

The 57-year-old Hooks died Thursday in New York, according to her agent,
Lisa Lieberman. She had no other details.

Hooks, a Decatur, Georgia, native, moved into prime time in 1991 as a cast
member on the sitcom "Designing Women." She later did an Emmy
Award-nominated turn on "3rd Rock From the Sun."

She also appeared in 1992's "Batman Returns" and voiced convenience store
owner Apu's wife on "The Simpsons" for several years.

On "SNL," she was part of a 1986 cast infusion that included fellow
standouts Dana Carvey and Phil Hartman that helped the show after the
previous season's ratings dive.

"I was 15 years old when I first saw Jan Hooks on SNL. All of her
characters spoke to me. She was one of the greats," SNL alum Amy Poehler
said in a statement.

A former member of the influential comedy troupe The Groundlings, she had
been rejected twice before for a spot on the NBC comedy institution.

Besides impersonations that included Bette Davis and Hillary Rodham
Clinton, Hooks won laughs for original characters such as Candy, half of
the bouffant-haired Sweeney Sisters lounge act. But being on a live weekly
broadcast proved hard on the comic actress.

"The show changed my life, obviously. But I have horrible stage fright,"
she said in an oral history of "SNL." While other performers wanted to "get
in there and do it," she said, "I was one of the ones that between dress
(rehearsal) and air was sitting in the corner going, `Please cut everything
I'm in.'"

She jumped at the chance to move into prime time when asked to join the
sitcom "Designing Women," appearing in the 1991-93 final seasons.

Born April 23, 1957, in Decatur, Georgia, Hooks studied for a time at the
University of West Florida in Pensacola before leaving to begin her acting
career, which included the 1985 movie "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure."

Her screen work became much more sporadic after the 1990s. On "30 Rock" in
2010, she played the avaricious mother of Jane Krakowski's character, Jenna
Maroney.