Hillary: 'I Like the Name President'
If New York Sen. Hillary Clinton doesn't like that fact that
reporters keep asking her if she's running for president next year, maybe she
should stop telling her constituents how much she'd like to be called Madame
President.
"I like the name 'interim president,'" she told a Manhattan audience
recently. "I like the name 'president' even better."
Sen. Clinton was referring to the "interim president" of Roosevelt Hospital,
who had just introduced her to the group. Her "I like the name president"
comment was first reported Monday by the New Yorker Magazine, buried deep inside
a profile headlined "THE STUDENT; How Hillary Clinton set out to master the
Senate."
In two interviews with the New Yorker, Sen. Clinton also denied that her
husband was trying to get her to run for the White House in 2004 - even though
Mr. Clinton told a California audience last month that he thought New Yorkers
wouldn't mind if she jumped into the race.
Sen. Clinton also insisted that she was merely joking when she told
fund-raisers last month that she wanted them on board "for my next campaign,
whatever that may be."
If any of the nine Democrats currently in the race found Mrs. Clinton's
remark funny, they did a good job of stifling their
laughter.
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