Coughing Clinton Plans To Fix Up "This Old (White) House"
Hillary Clinton made her way to New Hampshire today, where she called on all Americans to help advance the energy plan that she began laying out on Monday in Iowa.
She was joined onstage in Nashua by former "This Old House" host Bob Vila, who has endorsed her campaign and is an advocate for making people's homes more energy-efficient. "When we take back the White House there's going to be a lot of fixing to do," Clinton joked.
Halfway into the speech, Clinton began to cough. Her voice failing her, the former first lady started whispering. "I sound like Tallulah Bankhead," Clinton noted, to laughter from the crowd. Bankhead, as cinephiles know, was an actress in the 1930's. She was known to drink and smoke in excess and had a very husky voice.
Clinton's voice, however, was due to fatigue: She's been campaigning for a week straight and her vocal cords began failing her during her last swing through Iowa.
Clinton continued coughing as someone in the crowd yelled "hang in there!" The former first lady replied, to applause, "One thing you know about me, I hang in there." She cut her speech short and let Vila take over, then got some tea and was able to continue.