Very important meeting, reassuring the Democrats. The fact that it was not more stage-managed suggests to me they really did want to keep it quite private, and they weren't quite certain going in whether it would be a cordial meeting.
Gergen discusses the significance of the meeting between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party.
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