Bill Clinton: “Thank you very much. Kerry, you did a terrific job on the tour and just now with the introduction. I do want to say…”

“Thank you very much. Kerry, you did a terrific job on the tour and just now with the introduction. I do want to say, since a lot of you made comments about the basketball game, if it had come out the other way, I probably would have been in the Montgomery County Hospital as a patient today--[laughter]--rather than just someone trying to learn. I want to thank my good friend Bob Jordan for what he said and for his long friendship and support for me. And I thank Congressman Hefner for representing you so well and faithfully, as well as for being fairly restrained last night. [Laughter] I brought all my North Carolina staff members and all the people that work at the White House who went to Duke to the game last night. And so in our little box there were more people ``agin'' me than for me--[laughter]--but it was a wonderful occasion. This morning before we came here, I met with Kerry and some other folks who are here who helped to talk to me a little bit about some of the medical problems that you face here in this county and in similar places throughout our country. I'd just like to ask them to stand and be recognized, because I want you to know that I was with them before I came here, and a lot of what I have to say responds to what they said: Jim Bernstein, the director of the North Carolina Office of Rural Health and the president-elect of the National Rural Health Care Association; Dr.…”