Welcome to the free library in philadelphia, thank you very much for being here. Im laura kovacs and im honored to be here. Hillary clintons chief of staff huma abedin begin as an intern for the former first lady in 1996. In the interim she has served in u. S. Senate as Senior Advisor to secretary clinton, worked as a traveling chief of staff to clintons 2008 president ial campaign, was the deputy chief of staff in the u. S. Department of state. In her candid new memoir she emerges from the wings of american political history to take command of her own story. Tonight she will be joined in conversation with awardwinning journalist, tracey matisak. Thank you both so much for being here. The screen is all yours. It is a very special cd in my family. In fact, as i write in the book my parents were both immigrants. My father came from india, there were both fulbright scholars of university of pennsylvania and it almost didnt happen because my mother was picking between university of pennsyl
I might not have seen my pal for 25 years, but we picked up like it was yesterday. It was pretty grueling. I think of those relationships as forged in fire. My memory is of all those years of the Bush Administration are very vivid. They dont fade, at least not yet. Some of the bad ones, i hope fade. It is actually funny, i am sure you probably get asked, im going back into an Administration One day, i am too old for that. That is a Young Persons job. I said that several times. I am so old i go back to the reagan administration. At one point when bush 41 was president , i got to work in the u. S. Trade representatives office. It was a fantastic job. Absolutely fantastic job. I mercifully found some work in the private sector. Would you ever go back . No, not doing that. Mary madeline and i wear chair people, freds outlet friends go back into government. [laughter] right . And then 43 took office. God bless him. Would you ever go back, absolutely not. I was spoiled. It was her greatest j
In the interim she has served in u. S. Senate as Senior Advisor to secretary clinton, worked as a traveling chief of staff to clintons 2008 president ial campaign, was the deputy chief of staff in the u. S. Department of state. In her candid new memoir she emerges from the wings of american political history to take command of her own story. Tonight she will be joined in conversation with awardwinning journalist, tracey matisak. Thank you both so much for being here. The screen is all yours. It is a very special cd in my family. In fact, as i write in the book my parents were both immigrants. My father came from india, there were both fulbright scholars of university of pennsylvania and it almost didnt happen because my mother was picking between university of pennsylvania and berkeley and she almost picked berkeley that she picked penn and from my earliest memories my parents would bring us back to philadelphia, tell us about the house on Chestnut Street and, in fact, in the book the