Hillary Clinton 4 President

At 101 and 91 years old, Brieger and Hodges were both young when voting rights were passed.

Neither ever expected to see a woman run for president.

"I thank God if he lets me live to see it," Hodges
said. "That's why I'm standing here right now, getting ready to vote
for the first woman president."

Hillary Rodham Clinton addressed a campaign audience in D.C. Monday morning, saying she supports full voting rights for District residents.

Clinton spoke to a small gathering sponsored by the National Council for Negro Women. She said D.C. voting rights are long overdue, adding that it is wrong to disenfranchise those who live in the city.

Gov. Ted Strickland says it would be difficult for Hillary Clinton to win the Democratic presidential nomination without taking Ohio's March 4 primary.

The governor says Ohio and Texas are the most important upcoming states in the primary battle between Clinton and Barack Obama.

Clinton's background also features years of public service. She has been in the Senate since
2001, winning election in New York as she was reaching the end of her time as the nation's first
lady. In addition to what sometimes was characterized as a co-presidency with her husband, during
his two terms in office, she was first lady in Arkansas for 12 years.

She hopes to become the first woman to win a major-party presidential nomination. While her
husband was president, she was one of the most politically involved first ladies in U.S. history.
Her activism on a variety of issues earned her the kind of loyalty and opposition usually reserved
for presidents.