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Yes, please. Yeah. Yeah, right. Okay, people go away. Uh huh. What an exciting event you have staged here. As are 96 campaign swings into its final weeks, I can tell you that the Hillary

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for President 1996 campaign feels a lot different than four years ago. Now, back in 92 I felt like a walking contradiction campaigning all day long, but not nominated for a specific office. Just wife, advisor and friend to my husband, as close as I got to having

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an office was first lady all or as some of us preferred in a moment of Eleanor Roosevelt. Inspired revision is, um, first woman. But the changes that have taken place since 1992 feel to me as significant as the tumbling down of the Berlin Wall. And to

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think that we thought 1992 was the year of the woman. But who could have guessed that Bill Clinton's feminism would extend to turning over the second term to me on becoming my chief of staff, I can tell you that even though this country supported by a

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4 to 1 margin turning over the presidency to me, it took a profound act of leadership and courage for Bill to step aside. But I am glad that at least for a while, he was able to fulfill his dream of being president. But and he runs

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this campaign so well. He is a born political animal. I have finally gotten again. Now let's win this election. We cannot afford to leave the leadership of this country in the hands of Maryland quail E. It really was. Let's go out and win this election

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way cannot before the leadership of this country into the hands of Maryland's Wales and the boys. Okay, Okay. Hey, I want to ask a question that I'm asking a lot of people attending these lunches today. Why do you think this was such a success? Was it

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just for Hillary Clinton or in defense of a Hillary Clinton lifestyle? I think it is a vote for Bill and Hillary as the kind of partnership that we admire and the hope that more and more people will do whatever they can if it's a lunch or

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whatever to get him elected, why do you think women caught on to this idea? Is it because of Hillary Clinton or in defense of a woman of women having the choice to lead the kind of lifestyle of Hillary Clinton leads, right? I don't know that. I

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would have to say also, that I think it has more to do with wanting to support the next president of the United States and make sure that he does become the next president of the United States. I think all the other issue, I think all the

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issues that he and his wife have come to represent are probably issues that are close to everyone here at the table. I don't think you can separate it. I think Hillary is a wonderful example of a lot of different things a woman can be today in

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this society, and I think that's understood by many people throughout American. I think the kind of strategy that the Republicans have for downplaying the role of women except within a very narrow channel, is really not plausible. In 1992 right one would have dreamed.

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What about you? What attracted you to it? Well, when I received the invitation, I thought it was amazingly witty and stylish, and I thought the idea of women for Hillary was a good idea. I thought the idea of lunch at any one of these 12 restaurants

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was a terrific thought, and I thought that my own feelings about this election and how I am going to vote had a lot to do with the subject of women and Hillary and women for Hillary. So it was a great confluence of events. Are you? Do

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you feel that Hillary has truly been under attack or Hillary's lifestyle has been under attack? What do you think it is that really seems to be drawing women and particularly professional women? To her? I think Hillary's presence not by anything she's actively sought to do but

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simply by virtue of her existence has an engendered a discussion, if you can call it that on family values on subjects that are inherently anti women, anti underdog, uh, anti family, really, that I think many women feel very sympathetic about and, as a consequence, realized that

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they can no longer in good conscience both the other way. Yeah, right. It was 321 There was no general media publicity about. Today's lunch is on Lee individual invitations. Even so, the event was a sellout in San Francisco. Velvet Davis New Center for okay, 321 There

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was no general media publicity about today's Siris of lunches, only individual invitations. Even so, the event was a complete sellout in San Francisco. Belda Davis New Center for 321 thistles. Belvin Davis coming up on new Center four. Ladies honor Hillary Clinton Yeah! 321 Thistles! Belvin Davis

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coming up on new Center four. Ladies honor Hillary Clinton, but, um, I supposed to say something. After 3 to 1 Thistles. Belvin Davis Women gather for lunch to honor Hillary Clinton That's coming up on New Center four.