President Barack Obama hosts Hillary Clinton for lunch on Monday, welcoming his former secretary of state back amid speculation that she will make a White House run in 2016.
Obama’s press office announced the luncheon meeting, but there will be no media access. It was unclear what the two would discuss.
Even barely past the halfway mark in 2013, “Hillary 2016” rumors have swirled around Washington — notably because of the possibility that this could pit her against Vice President Joe Biden.
“I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America,” Biden recently told GQ. “But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.”
The magazine described Biden as being “a Hillary Clinton away from the White House.” That’s a nod to the loose inside-the-Beltway consensus that he won’t run in 2016 if she does.
Hillary stepped down as America’s top diplomat Feb. 1 after serving out Obama’s entire first term. She has been giving speeches around the country, some of them handsomely paid, others for free.
Rumors that she might be looking to make Bill Clinton the first husband have stoked partisan political passions. There is a “Ready For Hillary PAC” encouraging her to run and a “Stop Hillary PAC” that, well, the name is a bit of a clue.
And NBC has decided to produce a four-hour miniseries based on Hillary Clinton's life from 1998 onward, starring Diane Lane in the lead role. That would likely start the story arc with the country in the grips of the scandal over Bill Clinton's affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
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