Bill Clinton: “California October 25, 1998 Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for your wonderful welcome, I'm…”

“California October 25, 1998 Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for your wonderful welcome, I'm delighted to be here with so many great supporters of Barbara Boxer. I want to thank Mark and Susie and my longtime friend Dick Fredericks, all the others who are responsible for this event today. I am delighted to see Senator Cranston here, and thank you, sir. And I'm so glad that Gray Davis was able to come--another way station on his way to victory in a few days. You know, I have had a great time at this event listening to other people speak, first of all because, believe it or not, I'm a little afraid to speak today because I still haven't had much sleep since the end of those peace talks. And I gave a couple speeches for Barbara yesterday in southern California, and I told everyone that before I got off the plane--my staff gives me these typewritten things, see, like this, and I always ignore them; I just stand up there and talk. So because I was up for 39 hours in a row at the end of the Middle East peace talks, and then had to come out here, and my system is a little-- you know, I mean, I'm 52 years old. [Laughter] And I didn't even do that in college. So my staff said, ``Please read the cards today.'' [Laughter] And then Hillary called me to tell me to tell Barbara hello and to say how sorry she was she wasn't here. And she said, ``Better read those cards today.'' [Laughter] So I've got these cards up here; I'll do my best to do it.…”