into the office. i think she had some other business. she wanted to see me. she comes in and we have dinner together and she says, bill s thinking of running for president. now this is 1988. this is 14 years after the conversation we had in the car and bill clinton at this point i think is 43 years old. he was born in 46. how old was he in 1988? he s 42. 42. he s 42 years old in 1988. and she s the same age. no. she s a year younger. she s about 41. she was born in 47. he s thinking of running for president and she doesn t want me to commit to support anybody else. i said, my support for anybody makes any difference makes no difference so i say to her very tentatively, i said, well, hillary, i know we discussed this in the past, something like that, but he may be kind of young. 42 years old. to run for president. john kennedy ran when he was 42, 43. she says, well, he s deciding. just don t support anybody else. okay. i m not supporting anybody. a week later i get a c
what s the common thread? that can t happen without town halls a national dialogue. intimidation is always, always to skip that part. back to my latino south. i think what clicks for me was i will never be one. i think it would be very unfair to think that i m just in arab. i grew up in the south. i grew up in the bible belt. being in south carolina really played a role in terms of who i am and my values, and being an american, being a woman. those type of identities are strong. the only time i was able to have the every me was when i just embrace multiculturalism. and accepted that it s consistently shifted. then i had a much stronger level of comfort with myself. khaled, given your background and experience, not only the dialogue within the kennedy, but with other minorities, i know this has been an area you have tried to work on but how, not only the benefits of coalition building, but how does this benefit us?