Versailles, Indiana wasn’t built in a day so the Little Rock dynasty of Bubba-Rodham may yet take its place next to Romanov, Bourbon and Saxe-Coburg.
June 8, 2008
The Long Road to a Clinton Exit
By PETER BAKER and JIM RUTENBERG
WASHINGTON — By the time the campaign tracked down the small-city Indiana mayor, Bill Clinton was in a lather. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton had lost the North Carolina primary that evening and was eager to offset it with a win in Indiana. But a vote-counting delay in one county threatened to rob her of a prime-time victory speech.
The Clinton campaign called a supporter for help. “I’ve got an angry president here and a candidate who wants to know whether or not she won,” a local campaign representative told the mayor, Thomas McDermott Jr. of Hammond, Ind. Mr. McDermott could hear Mr. Clinton railing in the background. “It’s not very often you basically have a former president yelling at you to get the numbers out,” he recalled.
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