Bill Clinton: “Maryland April 27, 1999 Thank you very much. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, this has been an atypical and thoroughly…”

“Maryland April 27, 1999 Thank you very much. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, this has been an atypical and thoroughly enjoyable fundraiser. [Laughter] First of all, when I was introduced, Father, to you, I thought to myself, how did the conversation go when Tommy Boggs asked you to come and pray over all these politicians, lobbyists, and fundraisers? And I think it must have gone something like this: He asked you, and you said, ``Well, if I can pray over you, Tom, I can pray over anybody.'' [Laughter] Let me say--we were having a conversation here at the table, and I was telling Pat Kluge, Tom, how much I liked your whole family and how much I admired your late sister Barbara and treasured the brief occasions I had to be with her, how I will always cherish the fact that I was with your remarkable father on the last weekend of his life, in San Antonio, Texas, when I was a very young man--and I was completely enamored of him--and how your unbelievable mother took me under her wing and didn't shed me when a lot of other people were, in 1992. [Laughter] And now she represents me to the Pope--[laughter]--and is maybe the only person on the Earth-- [laughter]--who could convince the Pope that I am worth dealing with. [Laughter] So, anyway--so I love the Boggs family. [Laughter] And I understand that one of the things that Lindy's going to do before she leaves the Vatican is to nominate you for sainthood, Barbara.…”