Bill Clinton: Life After the White House

Bill Clinton: Life After the White House

 

 

By the end of a three-day jaunt through Peru and Colombia to check up on programs sponsored by the William J. Clinton Foundation, I realized how familiar the trip felt — not because it resembled the travels he made as president but because it resembled the ones Hillary Clinton made as first lady. As a White House correspondent at the time, I accompanied her to Africa, Europe and Latin America. She typically would make a courtesy stop at a palace for a brief meeting with the head of state, but the trips were built around round-table discussions or visits to far-off villages to explore how people confronted the challenges of their world. That’s what Bill Clinton was doing now. The next day he would wake up in Lima, fly to Barranquilla on Colombia’s northern coast and then to Medellín before settling into a hotel in Cartagena. When I later made the observation to him, he said with a laugh, “We’ve reversed roles.”