Bill Clinton on White House Role: ‘I Like This Economic Business’

Likely Democratic presidential nominee and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has already made it clear that she doesn’t expect her husband to sit around the White House baking cookies and having teas, but plans instead to “put him in charge of revitalizing the economy.” While campaigning in the Virgin Islands Monday night, NBC News caught up with former President Bill Clinton and asked him about that possible role, and Clinton gave an encouraging response, both on a policy and a matrimonial level:

I’ll do whatever I’m asked to do. Although I like this economic business.

Good answer, Mr. President. While Donald Trump has been trying to make Bill Clinton’s personal history an issue, the Clintons seem to be hewing closely to that famous War Room sign: It’s the economy, stupid.

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