and when Bill Clinton has prepped his wife on how to handle his own death to maximum political advantage, I have little doubt he's also pre-planned how to maximize political advantage when any of the other former presidents die.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/bill-clinton-urges-hillary-clinton-to-take-maximum-advantage-of-his-death-new-book-reveals/article/2550057
Excerpts from the link,
Starting on page 276, Klein begins by quoting the former president:
Im worried how my health will affect your campaign, he said. I have to do all I can to prepare the campaign playbooks, but I also have to accept the fact that if I fall by the wayside, you have to continue without me and make a positive thing out of it.
Obviously, you have to have a big state funeral for me, with as much pomp and circumstance as possible, he said. Im thinking maybe I should be buried at Arlington [National Cemetery] rather than at my library in Little Rock. After all, I was commander in chief for eight years and have every right to be buried at Arlington.
Im going to plan this thing out in detail. . . Wear your widows weeds, so people will feel sympathy for you. Wear black for a decent mourning period and make my death an asset. The images on television of the funeral and the grieving widow in black will be priceless. When Im gone, people will think only of my good points and forgive, if not forget, the bad. Ill be remembered in a positive light more in death than I was in life. That always happens. Everybody knows that. So youll have to take maximum advantage of my death.
It should be worth a couple of million votes, he said.