Obama to host Hillary Clinton at White House lunch

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President Obama will host Hillary Rodham Clinton, his one-time campaign foe who later served as his secretary of state, at lunch Monday at the White House.

Obama and Clinton will meet for a lunch in the president’s private dining room, the White House announced Sunday. Their meeting will be closed to the press.

Clinton stepped down on as secretary of state on Feb. 1, after serving for four years as the nation’s top diplomat. In the weeks following her departure from the State Department, Obama hosted Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, at a private dinner at the White House.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/07/28/obama-to-host-hillary-clinton-at-white-house-lunch/

[morningfog]

1. Curious of the subject. The extent Obama will campaign for her in 2016, perhaps?

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2. Well, thinking about it now, I think he will.

If she runs and gets the Nom.

And he will do things like this for her, now and then, regardless.

[AtomicKitten]

4. I think Joe B gets first dibs.

[Beacool]

3. I have been wondering the reason for this lunch.

I heard on the radio this morning some WH correspondent (I didn't catch which one) saying that he thought it was in relationship to the problems in Egypt, Syria, etc.

He added that he didn't think that there would be a presser after the lunch since it was private.