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Hillary Clinton's mother dies at 92

Dorothy Howell Rodham, the mother of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, and mother-in-law of former president Bill Clinton, died early Tuesday morning at George Washington University Hospital. She was 92.

Clinton had canceled a trip to London and Istanbul to be with her mother. Dorothy Rodham had overcome years of struggle to become a powerful influence on her daughter. Her remarkable life is chronicled in The New York Times.