(2003-06-10) — Former House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt, D-MO, today exchanged Sen. Hillary R. Clinton’s new book for a cup of coffee at a local Starbuck’s shop.
“I was so excited when I heard that the former First Lady had praised me in the book,” said Rep. Gephardt. “I told my campaign manager about it, and he said ‘With Clinton’s praise and $3.50 you could buy a cup of coffee’. And he was right… Mmmm good coffee.”
The $28-book includes a brief reference to the Missouri Democrat, noting that “Through position and experience, Gephardt would be a leading voice in any health-care deliberations in the House.”
The passage was, of course, reflecting on Mrs. Clinton’s successful overhaul of the nation’s health care system during the 1990s.

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