Bill Clinton: “Thank you. This is one clever man. I want you to watch this. You see this? He took the watch again. [Laughter] Thank…”

“Thank you. This is one clever man. I want you to watch this. You see this? He took the watch again. [Laughter] Thank you, Jonathan. Thank you, Christopher. I want to thank Andy and Jeff and Elizabeth and all the others who were cochairs tonight. I want to thank Sandy Thurman and Richard Socarides and Marsha Scott, who've done a lot of great work for me and on my behalf with so many of you. And I want to thank Brian Rich for serving as a White House volunteer. The whole place runs on volunteers, believe it or not, to an astonishing extent. I want to thank Steve and Len and all fine people here from the DNC, and all of you for being here. Last night we were with some people, and a person who's lived here for many years said, ``You know, the last sitting President to visit Long Island was William McKinley--the eastern end of Long Island-- William McKinley.'' And everybody laughed. They didn't exactly see me as a natural successor to William McKinley. We don't think of him in the same terms that I'm frequently painted these days. But I'll tell you an interesting thing about William McKinley. He was the last of a line of either four or five generals, Union generals from Ohio, to be elected President between 1868 and 1896, that included Ulysses Grant; his successor, Rutherford Hayes; James Garfield, who, unfortunately, was assassinated and lived only a few months; Mr. McKinley--Mr. Harrison might have been from Ohio; I'm not sure.…”