Posted on 11/08/2018 9:42:15 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
On the two-year anniversary of Election 2016, Mary Steenburgen recalls the poignant solace she tried to offer her longtime friend Hillary Clinton after she lost that year’s bruising presidential race.
“As long as we’re privileged to draw breath, life is a grace and none of us know what’s around the bend,” Steenburgen, 65, told Clinton, according to an essay the Book Club actress wrote for #StillWithHer by former White House photographer Barbara Kinney. (The book, out Nov. 1, was produced in collaboration with PEOPLE’s Sandra Sobieraj Westfall.)
Steenburgen, a close personal friend of Hillary and Bill Clinton dating back to when they all lived in Arkansas, also reflects on the significance of Clinton’s presidential campaign.
In the book, she remembers the first time she thought that Hillary Clinton could be president. It was the late 1970s and Steenburgen and the Clintons were eating cookies in the kitchen of the Arkansas governors’ mansion. At some point, the then-Arkansas governor and his wife discussed ways to provide health insurance for children.
“They were on fire with this idea. It happened a lot with them,” Steenburgen writes. “And I loved the idea, too. But as I watched them try to figure out ways to change the world, I remember thinking, Wouldn’t it be amazing if Bill could be president someday?”
She continues, “Then I looked at [Hillary] and I gasped to myself. Oh, my god. What if she could be president?”(continued)
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If I got knocked down 7 times, I think I would only get up 7 times. I'm not sure why you'd get up 8 times. Maybe Dorothy fell on her own a lot like her daughter, or maybe they are talking about voting.
“poignant solace” from Mary Steenburgen...
The thought of it just makes my skin crawl.
>>but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession.”
governor’s wife appointed to the board of directors at Wal-mart.
What a laugh
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