Hillary Clinton Jokes About Fresh Start With the Press
The presumptive presidential frontrunner for the Democrats told a gathering of journalists she was ready to give up her "zone of privacy."
on March 23, 2015 in Washington, DC.
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton acknowledged her rocky history with the political press on Monday and said she hopes to turn over a new leaf as she heads into a new campaign season as she implored journalists to focus on telling substantive stories.
“My relationship with the press has been, at times, shall we say, complicated,” she said as she addressed an awards ceremony celebrating the late New York Times political reporter Robin Toner. Journalists filled the two-dozen tables at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank, as did a few press-facing current and former White House staffers.