3/30 Bill C campaigns in NYC-Recalls How the Irish Were Key to His Success in New York
well--lets just say---Bill is always on the stump mode.
Mar.30
6:37 pm ET By Amy Chozick
Bill Clinton Recalls How the Irish Were Key to His Success in New York
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/03/30/bill-clinton-recalls-how-the-irish-were-key-to-his-success-in-new-york/?ref=politics
Bill Clinton, with his wife, Hillary, speaking at Wall and Nassau Streets in Lower Manhattan during his campaign for the presidency on April 2, 1992.Credit Edward Keating/The New York Times
As Hillary Clinton courted African-Americans in Harlem on Wednesday, across Central Park, in the gilded ballroom at the Metropolitan Club, former President Bill Clinton sipped a pint of Guinness and addressed the Irish, another critical constituency as the Democratic contest descends on New York City.
Accepting a lifetime achievement award at the Irish America Hall of Fame luncheon for his role in bringing peace to Northern Ireland, Mr. Clinton, wearing a green tie, didn’t mention his wife’s presidential campaign. Instead, he talked about his own 1992 campaign, when, as governor of Arkansas, he tried to learn how to win a New York primary.
“What happened to me — and it sort of happened to me — began here in this city, late at night, almost exactly 24 years ago when I was trying to win the New York primary,” Mr. Clinton explained.
Back then, a group of powerful Irish Americans and sympathizers, including the Clinton adviser Harold M. Ickes and former Representative Bruce Morrison of Connecticut, had assembled to talk to Mr. Clinton about the fighting that plagued Northern Ireland and what the next president could do.
“They were grilling me about all matter of things, and I think they were surprised I was prepared,” he said.
Mr. Clinton won the bitterly contested New York primary in 1992, catapulting him to the nomination.......................
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