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How Hillary Clinton built her packed political resume

Hillary Clinton insists she did not consider running for anything until 2000, as her husband's time in the White House was winding down. But in Jan. 2007, two months after winning a second term as U.S. senator from New York, she announced she intended to be president. Her team expected a “coronation,” one journalist said in the last of our series on Clinton’s story. And then came Barack Obama.