Bill Clinton: “Evan Bayh December 1, 1997 Thank you very much. Governor, Senator Bayh, Lieutenant Governor Kernan, Senator Kerrey…”

“Evan Bayh December 1, 1997 Thank you very much. Governor, Senator Bayh, Lieutenant Governor Kernan, Senator Kerrey, Senator Torricelli. Ladies and gentlemen, first, thank you very much for being here for Evan Bayh tonight. You could probably tell that--you might have told a lot of things looking at that. You could probably tell we were good friends. When you heard him speak, you might have been thinking, ``There is Joe DiMaggio; why is he introducing Lou Gehrig?'' [Laughter] And then he started talking about what was on Jefferson's gravestone; I thought, my God, it's not-- bad enough that he's younger and better looking, now he's about to write my epitaph. [Laughter] But I was spared. Evan and Susan Bayh have been very close friends of Hillary's and mine for a long time now. I do remember when he was elected the youngest Governor in America, a position that I once held. And I remember how well he served. I remember when Senator Kerrey and I used to sit in the Governors meetings and think about how crazy things were in Washington, and we couldn't imagine how people lived and worked here, what strange decisions were made. We don't have any excuse for being here, Senator Kerrey and I. [Laughter] Senator Torricelli was always in the Congress; he didn't know any better. [Laughter] We were actually out there in the real world with Evan Bayh. And here is he about to jump off the same cliff.…”