Former President Bill Clinton appeared by remote video tonight to speak to the annual dinner for volunteers at the Clinton Presidential Center and said he’d tested negative today for COVID-19, which prevented him from traveling to the event.
He said he felt fine and thought he might have picked up the virus in a trip to a funeral in England or a stop in Canada. He said he’d have been a hypocrite to make the trip after testing positive and having encouraged others to be careful.
He said he was hopeful about politics, despite the deep divisions in the country. He encouraged people to build bonds across political aisles on issues on which there is 70 percent agreement.
Potential news: He and other speakers talked of coming expansion of the Clinton Library to add papers of Hillary Rodham Clinton and an expansion of the student body of the Clinton School for Public Service next door. No details given.