We were skeptical Saturday night when New York Sen. Hillary Clinton told Iowa Democrats gathered at the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner that she'd spent Veteran's Day night at Washington, D.C.'s Walter Reed Army hospital comforting wounded soldiers just back from Iraq.
After all, there wasn't a single media report on the former first lady's Florence Nightingale moment. And even Walter Reed's in-house newspaper, which covered other visits by prominent congresspersons last week, made no mention of Mrs. Clinton's ministering to the troops.
Yet somehow nobody noticed as, by her own description, Sen. Clinton "went from room to room and bed to bed, seeing young men who had lost arms and legs, who had head injuries that, at least as for now, prevented them from knowing their names and remembering where they came from."
After blaming President Bush for the carnage, the former first lady told the crowd, "I knew that I was seeing the best that America has to offer."
A call to Walter Reed's public affairs office Monday morning cleared up the mystery - to some extent, anyway - over why nobody seemed to notice when the world's most famous woman materialized out of the blue to cheer up the troops.
Asked about Mrs. Clinton's visit, a hospital spokeswoman initially had no recollection of the episode, telling NewsMax.com, "Most of us were off for Veteran's Day."
But after some checking, she returned to the line to confirm that the New York senator had indeed made the pilgrimage, but did so on her own, without any entourage and without notifying the public affairs office.
When asked if Walter Reed was in the habit of admitting non-relatives, who hadn't cleared their visit with hospital authorities, to barge in and wander through the sick wards at will, the spokeswoman replied, "When you're the wife of the ex-president, yes."
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