It was hilarious. Clinton came here in '99, and half of the people demonstrating against him were local hard left denouncing "Yankee imperialism" and the other half were travelling Freeper-alike Americans calling him a rapist.
In fact, I think we weren't willing to allow armed USSS agents here back in 1996, explicitly saying no allowance would be given even if Clinton came. Our politicians and public figures have an annoying habit of ignoring the US as if you were Austria - far away, (to NZ) inconsequential. The last sitting US President to pay an official visit to NZ before Clinton was LBJ and he was the first.
But, but....Clinton just scathingly told Peter Jennings that he was even MORE loved by the international community at the end of his terms! ;^)
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