WHAT HILLARY AND GHWB HAVE IN COMMON

Interview: 'People Are More Hopeful' (Jon Meacham, Newsweek, 3/14/05)

A lot of people were surprised to see you and President Clinton get along so well. . . .

[GHWB:] I'll give you one example of the courtesy he showed me. There is one bedroom on that plane—a government 757. There's a kind of VIP bedroom with its own bathroom. Then the next room has two tables and eight seats. He decided ahead of time that we want President Bush to have the front room, which was heaven for me, because if I don't stretch out, lie flat, I really hurt my body these days—spoiled—so anyway, he was going to have the other room. Well, he got in there and he wanted to play cards at night, and the next morning I got up and stuck my head in and I found him sound asleep on the floor of the plane. We could have switched places, each getting half a night on the bed, but he deferred to me. That was a very courteous thing, very thoughtful, and that meant a great deal to me.