WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama met privately Thursday night to talk about uniting the Democratic Party.
“Senator Clinton and Senator Obama met tonight and had a productive discussion about the important work that needs to be done to succeed in November,” their campaigns said in joint statement.
The statement included no details, as pressure mounted for Obama to invite Clinton to become his running mate. Robert Gibbs, an Obama spokesman, would not say where the former rivals met, except that it was not at Clinton’s home in Washington, as had been widely reported.
Reporters traveling with Obama sensed something might be happening between the pair when they arrived at Dulles International Airport after an event in northern Virginia and Obama was not aboard the airplane.
Asked at the time about the Illinois senator’s whereabouts, Gibbs smiled and declined to comment.
