AMES, Iowa — Campaigning for his wife in the 2008 campaign’s leadoff caucus state, former President Bill Clinton said Monday that when they were starting out, he was so struck by her intellect and ability that he once suggested she should just dump him and jump into her own political career.
“I thought it would be wrong for me to rob her of the chance to be what I thought she should be,” Clinton told an Iowa crowd. “She laughed and said, ‘First, I love you and, second, I’m not going to run for anything, I’m too hardheaded.’ ”
The former president opened a two-day swing through Iowa on behalf of Hillary Rodham Clinton, packing nearly 500 people into a theater on the campus of Iowa State University. “She has spent a lifetime as a change agent when she had the option to do other things,” he said.
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