March 26, 2008

Hillary Wrong Again, Pat Nixon Visited War Zone

Via Nixonblog:

Sen. Clinton erred again today even as she admitted she misspoke about her experience in Bosnia as First Lady:
Clinton backpedalled Tuesday, saying that she had “made a mistake in describing it. “We were … very much told by the Secret Service and the military that we were going into a war zone and that we had to be conscious of that,” Clinton told an audience. “I was the first first lady taken into a war zone since Eleanor Roosevelt during World War II.”
But as the article points out, Pat Nixon was the last first lady to visit a combat zone. And less safe circumstances than Hillary.

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