NORWALK,
Iowa – She was a young attorney at one of Little Rock’s most
prestigious law firms when she became pregnant, but as Hillary Clinton
recounted to a small group of voters here on Wednesday, she didn’t dare
tell any of her co-workers. Her firm didn’t offer maternity leave.
“I got pregnant, and nobody said anything to me, and I didn’t say
anything to them. We didn’t know what to say to each other. So I walked
down the hall going to the conference room or the library or something,
and I would see one of the partners coming, and he’d go, ‘Ohhhhhhhh,’
and look away,” Clinton recalled with a chuckle.
Seated around her at a table inside a sterile corner of a fruit
wholesale warehouse here in the Des Moines suburbs, six Iowans — four
women and two men, handpicked to join Clinton at her second official
event as a 2016 presidential candidate — laughed, too, at the image of
the pregnant lawyer waddling past her awkward employer.
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