Allies Remember a Driven Hillary Rodham During '72 Texas Visit (photo of Bill with a beard)

[TexasTowelie]

This photo, courtesy of the William J. Clinton Presidential Library's Clinton Historical Collection, shows Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham in New Haven, Conn., in 1972.

WASHINGTON — As Garry Mauro drove up to Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern’s Texas headquarters in October 1972, a young couple burst out of the office, begging for a ride to the Austin airport.

Mauro, who would serve as state land commissioner from 1983 to 1999, obliged, racing the tall, bushy-haired Democratic operative and the 24-year-old law student from West Sixth Street east to the Robert Mueller Airport.

“We gotta get to New Haven because we gotta register late for law school,” Mauro, now 67, recalled Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham saying.

It was a frantic moment that followed an impetuous decision by the Yale Law School students to come to Texas for a doomed political endeavor in the middle of their studies.

Read more: http://www.texastribune.org/2015/05/16/clintons-take-texas-1972/

[BeyondGeography]

1. Great read

I'd like to buy Betsey Wright a drink or two and listen to her for as long as she could talk.

[hobbit709]

2. Remember the infamous "I didn't inhale"?

He came to the 'Dillo at least once while in Austin. Unless he didn't breathe inside, he inhaled.

[leftofcool]

3. That is the coolest photo of Bill and Hillary.

[NBachers]

4. This would be a good article for the "ex-Goldwater Girl" snipers to read.