Bill Clinton recounted how he met his wife, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, to a crowd in Iowa on Thursday, saying he "kept kind of ogling her" until they eventually spoke one night at the Yale Law School library.
Clinton said he thought his future wife looked like an "interesting woman" when they first met, and he was shy about speaking to her at first because he thought this "may not be a temporary deal."
"I saw Hillary in a class that I am embarrassed to tell you I attended infrequently in law school, and I saw her and I thought, ‘Boy, that's an interesting woman,’" Clinton said. "And I got as close as I am almost to this microphone at the end of class, and I didn't tap her on the shoulder. I said I'd better be careful, this may not be a temporary deal.
"And I just kept kind of ogling her, and one night in the Yale library, which is a long, skinny room ... Hillary's at the other end, and I'm not paying attention ... I was staring at her. All of the sudden, she closed her law book, walked the entire length of the library, walked to me and said, 'Look, if you're going to keep staring at me, and I'm going to keep staring back, we at least ought to know each other's name. I'm Hillary Rodham, what's your name?' At the moment, I'm not sure I could remember my name, but anyway, that's how this started."