Eulogizing Ed Koch, Bill Clinton Recalls His Friendship With Hillary

This is the first Monday in a long time that we cannot look forward to some news about our girl.   We really do not even know where she is - whether she remains in DC or has made her way home to NY.   Her good friend, Mayor Ed Koch passed away the same day she said good-bye at the State Department.   President Clinton was in Japan when President Obama asked him to represent him at the funeral.

Walking to the lectern, he carried a blue folder.  He explained to the crowd in the temple that those papers were not his speech but were every letter Ed Koch had written to him.  He began his eulogy as he ended it, talking about the friendship between Ed and Hillary.  Koch supported Hillary in her Senate campaigns and met with her regularly when she served in the Senate.  The last letter came during the holiday season when Hillary was recovering from a series of health issues and Koch himself was in and out of the hospital with congestive heart failure.  Koch asked about Hillary and Bill Clinton told him, "She misses you."

Bill Clinton recalls Ed Koch as a mayor—and a pen pal

By Holly Bailey, Yahoo! News
NEW YORK—Former President Bill Clinton offered a funny and moving eulogy to former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, praising him as someone who truly understood and tried to help “real people.”

Speaking at Koch’s funeral on Monday morning, Clinton praised Koch as someone who “had a big brain but an even bigger heart. ... I don’t think I’ve known anyone in our line of work who understood the impact of what government was like on real people. He could imagine what life was like for people.”

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