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Bill Clinton: Thank you very much. I'm always uneasy when Hillary is up here about to introduce me. I never know what is really going…

On the recordSeptember 20, 1997
Thank you very much. I'm always uneasy when Hillary is up here about to introduce me. I never know what is really going to be said. [Laughter] You know, we--it's the world's worst-kept secret that we took our daughter to Stanford over the weekend--[laughter]--and bid her goodbye yesterday. And so, from, like, 6 o'clock on, Hillary and I are officially overseeing one of America's empty nests. [Laughter] And I've been thinking about how I was going to fill it. I was thinking about maybe I would get a dog to go with Socks, you know. [Laughter] When I heard Hillary talking, I thought that Willie was going to move in with us. [Laughter] Mayor, I love you, but they need you here. They need you. [Laughter] I love to come to San Francisco. I love the community. It was wonderful; we got off the highway and were coming up from--we came up from Palo Alto and were coming up through the streets, and I now know-- I've made that trip so many times from the airport that I know every block. And there's a little marker on every block, and I see the neighborhoods change. And I look for the people to change in the street. And I can always sort of measure how I'm doing by whether it's the same good response in every block, and then when I'm not doing so good there's a difference. [Laughter] And once I was doing so poorly, there was no difference in any of the neighborhoods the other way.…
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