Bill Clinton has ‘no earthly idea’ whether Hillary will run in 2016

Published September 23, 2012 4:14am ET



Former President Bill Clinton is just as in the dark as the rest of the political world about whether Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will run for president in 2016.

“I have no earthly idea what she’ll decide to do,” Clinton said of his wife’s plans in an appearance Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

Hillary Clinton has “worked hard for 20 years” during the Clintons’ eight years in the White House, the same amount of time representing New York in the Senate and four as secretary of state “and she’s tired,” the former president said.

“She’s done a fabulous job, I’m very proud of her,” he said. “But she wants to take some time off, kind of regroup, write a book, I hope we’ll be working together” on the Clinton Global Initiative and other projects.

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