Posted on 07/21/2004 6:53:52 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker
Former President Bill Clinton spent three days in Aspen before heading to a Denver bookstore Tuesday to sign copies of his memoir "My Life."
In Aspen, Clinton attended a fund-raiser Saturday at a private residence on Red Mountain where he campaigned for his wife's U.S. Senate run in 2006. The price to have lunch with he and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y.: a minimum $1,000 donation, insiders said.
The fund-raiser was held at the home of Michael Goldberg, president of Aerolease International, a Miami-based airline leasing company. Goldberg hosted similar events when Clinton was president, as well as one for Democrat presidential hopeful John Kerry last month.
Later that night, Clinton led a panel discussion that examined whether the United States will maintain its role as the world's leading economic, social and military power 100 years from now. The discussion was part of an annual four-day program - which Clinton has attended in the past - hosted by infoUSA CEO Vin Gupta. Other panelists included ChoicePoint CEO Derek Smith, DigiKey Corp. President Mark Lawson and Hotwire CEO Carl Peterson.
The 41st president sent a buzz through town when he and Hillary were spotted hanging out and eating at Boogie's Diner. Looking slimmer than he did during his days in the Oval Office, Clinton and a large dinner party feasted Monday night at Goldberg's sushi restaurant, Matsuhisa. Several Secret Service agents accompanied Clinton during his stay.
On Tuesday morning he headed to Denver, where Republicans and Bush supporters joined Democrats as hundreds of people crowded into a downtown Denver bookstore to get Clinton's autograph.
Clinton swept into the Tattered Cover Book Store's third-floor room to an outburst of applause from about 150 people at the front of the line, which flowed down staircases and swelled into a standing-room only crowd on the expansive bottom floor.
Hundreds were sure to go home disappointed; Clinton was scheduled to stay only three hours. He was due later at a fund-raiser in suburban Littleton for a memorial to the victims of the 1999 Columbine school shootings.
Publisher Alfred A. Knopf said ''My Life'' sold 400,000 copies nationwide its first day, the biggest debut ever for a nonfiction book.
Odd. I'd have thought it would have been the Sticky Pages Book Store.
Who's "Aspen?" Does Hillary know about this one?
I think "Aspen" is slang for "cocaine with Dan Lasater."
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