Benazir Bhutto with Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton after a dinner reception in Pakistan in 1995. (Photo credits: Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Hillary Clinton and Benazir Bhutto met in Islamabad in March of 1995.(Photo credits: Reuters)
The Washington Post’s Anne Kornblut reports from the campaign trail on Hillary Clinton’s response to Benazir Bhutto’s death:
LAWTON, Iowa, Dec. 27 -- As the news of Benazir Bhutto's death reverberated through the presidential campaign, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton paused to remember a woman whom she knew personally on the world stage and who had recently offered her advice on running as a female candidate.
LAWTON, Iowa, Dec. 27 -- As the news of Benazir Bhutto's death reverberated through the presidential campaign, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton paused to remember a woman whom she knew personally on the world stage and who had recently offered her advice on running as a female candidate.
Today the world once again is reminded of the dangers facing those who pursue democracy and free elections, in Pakistan and elsewhere in areas that are rife with conflict and violence and extremism and anti-democratic forces at work," Clinton said at the start of a campaign event here in western Iowa. "I have known Benazir Bhutto for a dozen years and I knew her as a leader. I knew her as someone willing to take risks.
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