"The most difficult decisions I have made in my life were to stay married to Bill and to run for the Senate from New York," Hillary Clinton writes in her autobiography "Living History". Almost eight years after she ran for Senate, Clinton can add a third decision to her list: running for president. As first lady she traveled to 83 countries, chaired the Task Force on National Health Care Reform, and raised awareness of health issues for Americans around the country, though her time is remembered mostly for the ambitious universal healthcare initiative that failed in Congress. Clinton, then Hillary Diane Rodham, spent her childhood in Illinois, attended Wellesley College and met Bill Clinton at Yale Law School. She ran and won the seat of the longest serving senator in New York's history, and won reelection in 2006 in a landslide. She announced her presidential ambitions in January of 2007 becoming the first former first lady to run for the White House.