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  As a Director, Clinton Moved Wal-Mart Board, but Only So Far
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Last EditedCBlock941  May 21, 2007 09:04am
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News DateMonday, May 21, 2007 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionIn 1986, Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart, had a problem. He was under growing pressure from shareholders — and his wife, Helen — to appoint a woman to the company’s 15-member board of directors.

So Mr. Walton turned to a young lawyer who just happened to be married to the governor of Arkansas, where Wal-Mart is based: Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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