Former President Bill Clinton told a rally in Billings, Montana, today that even if his wife drops out of the race for the Democrat presidential nomination, he will take his historic fight to be First Gent “all the way to Denver in August.”
“This isn’t about me,” said Mr. Clinton, “It’s about a glass ceiling that men have not yet shattered. If I give up now, the hopes and dreams of millions of American men would die with my campaign. I owe them one last valiant effort to recapture the true meaning of manhood.”
Mr. Clinton’s voice dropped to his trademark whisper, catching in his throat, as he described an encounter with “a 92-year-old man in who reached across the rope line and gripped my hand in both of his. He told me he’d been married for 70 years, and that his wife had always worn the pants in their family, but that he had never had a dignified title to acknowledge his skill at playing second fiddle.”
A reverent hush fell over the crowd as the former president added, “Then that old man looked into my eyes and said, ‘Mr. President you go get that title for me. Become the First Gent for all of us men in the silent majority.’”
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