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Saturday, June 02, 2001

If you really wanted to improve education, you would turn off the televisions

"He's minding the store and puttering around the house, fixing things up, reading and talking to his friends making speeches. He's done some great interviews with kids in the neighborhood. You know they come in and interview him for school projects. You know they sell Girl Scout cookies, and he buys 20 boxes. It's been fun."

Poughkeepsie Journal. In an extensive interview with the editorial board, Senator Hillary Clinton discusses education spending, Senator Jefford's defection to the Democrats, energy planning, her agenda for her Senate term, airport congestion, the lifestyle change that comes with no longer being first lady and what her husband's up to: "He's always going downtown to the diner or Starbucks, or the library or hardware store to find more hooks for hanging paintings because he's the person in charge of hanging things on the wall. We are having a really good time. It so odd, people say, 'What a change, what a switch.' We were both raised in pretty simple surroundings so being back in our own house, having to take care of it and figuring out what to do from day to day, that's the way we spent most of our lives, even though we had this unusual experience of living in a very, very nice public house for a long time. It's a good feeling to be back in your own home."'

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