Obama recognizes Clinton Administration's achievements

Politico's Carol Lee provides the context for the Obama-Clinton session in the White House briefing room today, and she shares Obama's remarks upon leaving the former president in charge:

“I thought, given the fact that he {President Clinton} presided over as good an economy as we've seen in our lifetimes, that it might useful for him to share some of his thoughts,” Obama said before turning the podium over to Clinton. “I'm going to let him speak very briefly, and then I've actually got to go over and do some – just one more Christmas party. So he may decide he wants to take some questions, but I wanted to make sure that you guys heard from him directly.”

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