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Clinton raises $1 million at fundraiser

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Ann Sanner, Associated Press Writer

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton says her presidency would not be a one-way street, but rather one where citizens will help her achieve the goals of universal health care, energy conservation and education reform.

"There will be work for every one of us to do," the New York senator and presidential candidate said Thursday night at a fundraiser. "In the America that we will live in, there is a place at the table and there is a burden to bear in order to give back to this country that has given every one of us so much."

Clinton delivered crowd-pleasing lines for the partisans in attendance, including a vow to end the war in Iraq.

"Because there is no military solution, we cannot leave our brave young men and women to be the referees of the Iraqi civil war," she said.

Author John Grisham served as master of ceremonies for the holiday-themed event at Union Station, which raised $1 million from some 1,200 people, organizers said. Donors paid between $250 and $2,300, while families could attend for $1,000.

Supporters drank hot chocolate and munched on cookies while children did crafts and made holiday cards, played with dreidels or had their pictures taken with either a snowman or reindeer character.

Clinton appeared at a fundraiser with Grisham, the best-selling author of legal thrillers, in September in Charlottesville, Va. Grisham was a former Democratic state legislator in Mississippi before his literary career blossomed in the early 1990s.

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