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Hillary Gaffes Again: Don't Forget Pat Nixon!

by Jarrett Martineau | March 27, 2008 at 08:56 am

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Clinton needs to start paying a lot more attention to what she's saying and who she's saying it to. The media will check the facts...whether it's dodging sniper fire and claiming you were the first first lady since...well, here's the case in point:

"I was the first first lady taken into a war zone since Eleanor Roosevelt."

--Hillary Clinton, press conference, March 25, 2008.

The Clinton campaign has cited newspaper accounts, including one in The Washington Post, to bolster her claim that her now famous March 1996 trip to Bosnia was the first visit to a "war zone" by a first lady since World War II. She is overlooking a trip to Saigon by Pat Nixon at the height of the Vietnam war as well as a trip by Barbara Bush to Saudi Arabia two months before the launching of Desert Storm.

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at 13:52 on March 30th, 2008

Jarrett Martineau, I like this story. It's good stuff. Yes Pat Nixon visted a Moble Sugical Team in Vietnam in 1969 where she had to avoid sniper fire and did a landing on a Huey or Ch-46 Source is Pat Nixon: the Untold Story by He daughter in 1986 I think. Today, we have to be very careful as everything is recorded and lots of fact finders. When John McCain said, "I don't know much about the economy". When Obama called for Imus to be fired but gives a pass to his paster. It is a digital world