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The Washington Post Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was paid $300,000 to speak to UCLA students and faculty in March.

When officials at the University of California at Los Angeles began negotiating a $300,000 speech appearance by Hillary Rodham Clinton, the school had one request: Could we get a reduced rate for public universities?

The answer from Clintons representatives: $300,000 is the special university rate.

That e-mail exchange and other internal communications, obtained this week by The Washington Post under a Freedom of Information Act request, provide a rare glimpse into the complex and meticulous backstage efforts to manage the likely 2016 presidential candidates lucrative speaking career.

At UCLA, efforts to book Clinton and then prepare for her visit were all-consuming, beginning almost immediately after she left her job as secretary of state on Feb.1, 2013, until she delivered her Luskin Lecture for Thought Leadership speech on March5, 2014.

The documents show that Clintons representatives at the Harry Walker Agency exerted considerable control over her appearance and managed even the smallest details from requesting lemon wedges and water on stage to a computer, scanner, and a spread of hummus and crudit in the green room backstage.

Top university officials discussed at length the style and color of the executive armchairs Clinton and moderator Lynn Vavreck would sit in as they carried on a question-and-answer session, as well as the kind of pillows to be situated on each chair. Clintons representatives requested that the chairs be outfitted with two long, rectangular pillows and that two cushions be kept backstage in case the chair was too deep and she needed additional back support.

After a lengthy call with a Clinton representative, UCLA administrator Patricia Lippert reported to campus colleagues, She uses a lavalier [microphone] and will both speak from the audience and walk around stage, TED talk style. We need a teleprompter and 2-3 downstage scrolling monitors [for] her to read from.

During a walk-through of Royce Hall five days before the lecture, the e-mails show, Clintons team rejected the podium planned for her use during her 20- to 30-minute speech, setting off a scramble on campus to find a suitable podium and rent a new university seal to match.

In the nearly twoyears since stepping down as secretary of state, Clinton has made dozens of paid appearances across the country at industry conventions and Wall Street banks as well as at universities. Her UCLA fee, like those at other universities, went to the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, the familys nonprofit group.

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A rare backstage glimpse into Hillary Clintons paid speaking career

After lengthy deliberations over the shape, colour and upholstery of the chairs to be used at the event on state at the universitys Royce Hall, Mrs Clintons representatives specified the two long, rectangular pillows with two more kept backstage in case she needed additional back support.

The Lecture on Thought Leadership is one scores of paid speaking engagements that Mrs Clinton has performed since leaving office in 2009, with her fees going to support the Clinton Foundation, the Clinton family philanthropy arm.

Although Mrs Clinton does not personally profit from the events, there has been increasing scrutiny on the Clintons jet-set lifestyle in the run-up to the announcement ? expected early next year ? that she will run for president in 2016.

On a campaign visit to Iowa earlier this year for the Harkin Steak Fry political fundraiser, documents showed that event organisers had paid $50,000 [GBP31,500) just to fly the Clintons in to the state.

The idea that Mrs Clinton might be losing touch with the ordinary voter came back to the fore this year when she complained to an interviewer that she and her husband, Bill Clinton, were dead broke when they left the White House ? a remark that attracted widespread scorn.

It emerged from the documents that Mr Clinton had delivered the same Luskin lecture at UCLA in 2012, but only charged $250,000 [GBP160,000] causing one university official to exclaim Wow! She gets $50K more than hubby! When the University asked if Mrs Clinton could give them a discount given their status as a public institution, they were informed that $300,000 was the special university rate.

The University decided to award Mrs Clinton the UCLA Medal in recognition of her achievements. The former First Lady accepted but stipulated that it should not be hung around her neck, but presented in a box.

Chancellor Block has agreed to accommodate Hillary Clintons request to have the medal presented in a box, confirmed another official in the emails obtained by the Washington Post.

With Mrs Clintons time being so valuable, guests paid up to $2,000 for a pair tickets and a photograph with the potential future president as organisers tried to claw back some of her huge fee, reducing the number of free tickets available to students to 413.

The number of photographs was limited to a total of 50 clicks including two group photographs another university official wrote, twice urging that the groups needed to be ready and waiting for Mrs Clinton. She doesnt like to stand around waiting for people, the official warned.

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Cushions and crudites: the demands of Hillary Clinton

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A fantastical remark by Hillary Clinton went virtually unnoticed last week, especially by the mainstream media. By Monday, when President Obama let Ferguson, Missouri, burn to the ground by failing to deploy national guard troops to the city ripped by racial strife, the remark had been long forgotten.

But not here. At a black-tie event at the posh Mandarin Oriental Hotel in New York on Friday, the multimillionaire former first lady said something spectacular about the presidents executive order to grant amnesty to some 5 million illegal aliens.

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We should all remember that this is about peoples lives. This is about, I would venture to guess, the people who served us tonight, who prepared our food tonight, and those who perform construction jobs, she said to applause. These are the lives of people who are, in many instances, longtime residents and workers who have not only raised children, but made contributions.

Yes, the former Secretary of State, whose last job required the utmost skill in diplomacy, said that the dozens of food servers and chefs at the exclusive hotel all had illegally sneaked into America (tossing in all construction workers for good measure). Yes, Hillary just assumed that her Hispanic waiter, filling and refilling her wine glass, bringing her a delightful chocolate treat after she gorged on a five-course meal, was an illegal who scaled the fence by Laredo, Texas, and now lives with 17 relatives in an overpriced apartment in Brooklyn.

The remark was stunning. The tin-earred Hillary had, in front of hundreds of one-percenters, also charged that the Mandarin Oriental Hotel employed illegals, which (in case everyone has forgotten) is a crime. The hotel, needless to say, was none too happy.

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Mandarin Oriental, New York does not knowingly employ illegal and/or undocumented immigrants, the hotel said, using a euphemism for illegal aliens (immigrants to America are, by definition, legally admitted into the country). We require all employees to provide proof of their eligibility to legally work in the U.S., said Tammy Peters, a spokesperson for the hotel, in an email to the Weekly Standard. All wait staff and catering staff are employed through our hotel and we do not use outside contractors for such services.

Awwwwkward. But what was more interesting was the assumptions the former top diplomat made not just about the wait staff at the hotel, but all Hispanics. In her speech she referred to those she believed the Obama executive order would help: waiters and cooks and construction workers, of course, but also fruit pickers and maids.

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