New York, April 19 – A typical Monday for Bill and Hillary Clinton – she was working, he was talking. At Borders bookstore, where Senator Hillary was signing copies of the just-released paperback version of her gazillion-selling book, Living History, she laughed when we told her she had our votes.

That evening at the Waldorf for a panel discussion, Bill thanked his hosts, the Center for Middle East Peace and Economic Cooperation, for giving him a break from working on his forthcoming book: “I feel like an inmate in prison who just got out on parole, because I have been working at home on my book. I have a deadline, and I’m almost through, and most nights I work till 3 or 4 o’clock in the morning, so I feel like I got at least a furlough to come out into the real world and see people. Thank you very much for that… We joke every day, the young people who are working with me on my book, that we feel that we’re characters in the movie Groundhog Day. You remember that movie? For those of you who didn’t see it, Bill Murray gets up every day and it’s the same day every time. That’s the way I feel.” (This was his segue into talking about the Middle East conflict – that nothing has changed. We’ll leave that to the newspapers.)