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CONCORD, N.H. A political action committee supporting Hillary Rodham Clinton is sending staff members to visit New Hampshire next week to begin organizing support in case the former first lady and secretary of state decides to run for president in 2016.

Ready For Hillary is hosting events with state Democrats on Tuesday and Wednesday. New Hampshire holds the nation's first presidential primary and is a key state for every candidate since an early win can help build momentum.

Clinton won the primary in 2008, edging out then-Sen. Obama. The state was also friendly to her husband: Bill Clinton earned the moniker "The Comeback Kid" after scoring a surprisingly strong second-place finish here in 1992.

Three Ready for Hillary staffers will meet with New Hampshire legislators for a private lunch Tuesday in Concord, then attend house parties in Nashua, Keene and Durham. On Wednesday, they'll attend a house party in Manchester. State lawmakers and executive councilors are among the featured guests at the house parties, a hallmark of the state's hands-on politicking.

As a super PAC, Ready for Hillary can raise and spend unlimited amounts of money but cannot formally coordinate with the Clinton family or its representatives.

Ready For Hillary has done similar outreach in another bellwether state, visiting Iowa in January. Iowa has the first caucuses of the campaign season. Clinton finished third in Iowa in 2008.

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In one of the thousands of Clinton administration papers released Friday came a hint of what is to come if Hillary Rodham Clinton decides to run for president in 2016.

In a January 1996 memo to White House communications director and speechwriter Don Baer, President Clinton's political advisor Paul Begala wrote that in the upcoming State of the Union address its imperative that the president defend the honor of the first lady tonight, with the whole country watching.

The Republicans are attacking her without compunction, in part because they know the Democrats are too ... to retaliate, Begala wrote, including a term -- omitted here -- rooted in his Texas upbringing.

The memo does not mention why she was being attacked but the fact that there were so many options explains why even many Democrats are wary of a Clinton restoration.

In just that one month, January of 1996, dual Clinton scandals were confounding the White House and greatly complicating the presidency. House and Senate hearings featured gavel-pounding displays of anti-Clinton fervor; also revolving around the first couple were independent counsels -- visible threats to the familys political viability:

The travel office firings:

Four months after Bill Clinton took office in 1992, the White House announced that it was firing all seven employees of the in-house travel office, which arranged trips for the media. Officials blamed the employees for gross financial mismanagement but the move took on another cast when the administration sought to replace them with a travel agency from Arkansas.

Hillary Clinton insisted in a 1995 deposition that she had no role in the firings. But an investigation by independent counsel Robert W. Ray found that there was overwhelming evidence that she had played a role. Still, he said in a report released in the fall of 2000, only months before the Clintons left the White House, there was not sufficient evidence to prove that she had lied under oath about what she had done.

"Mrs. Clintons input into the process was a significant -- if not the significant -- factor influencing the pace of events in the travel office firings and the ultimate decision to fire the employees, Ray concluded.

As one of the first moves made by the Clinton administration, the travel office brouhaha helped craft an impression of the new White House couple as, at best, willing to run roughshod over employees in order to install loyalists. Ultimately, the administration admitted the firings were a mistake, and five of the employees were rehired. The former travel office director, a well-known and popular figure at the White House, was acquitted of criminal embezzlement charges.

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Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has declared that achieving equality for women and girls is 'the great unfinished business of the 21st century.'

The potential 2016 presidential candidate galvanised the UN commemoration of International Women's Day, repeating her resounding declaration as first lady at the 1995 UN women's conference in Beijing that 'human rights are women's rights - and women's rights are human rights.'

Clinton said that important progress has been made, citing the increasing number of girls in school and women in elected office, and the repeal of many discriminatory laws.

'Yet for all we have achieved together, this remains the great unfinished business of the 21st century,' she said.

In the nearly two decades since Beijing, Clinton said, 'no country in the world has achieved full participation, and women and girls still comprise the majority of the world's unhealthy, unfed and unpaid.'

She called for greater opportunities for women and girls and urged the UN to include gender equality at the forefront of its new goals to promote development.

'When women succeed the world succeeds,' Clinton said. 'When women and girls thrive, entire societies thrive. Just as women's rights are human rights, women's progress is human progress.'

Clinton said the goals must ensure that women everywhere have the right to find a job, to own and inherit property, to have a valid and legal identity, to have gender parity in primary and secondary education, and help end violence against women and child brides.

She stressed that there can be no progress 'without safeguarding women's reproductive health and rights,' saying the platform agreed to by 179 countries at the 1994 UN population conference in Cairo which ensures these rights 'must be the starting point for work today.'

'If we get it right, we can put the world on the path to less poverty and more prosperity, less inequality and more opportunity,' Clinton said.

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