In addition to bringing peace to Northern Ireland, Hillary also saw military action in Bosnia.
I certainly do remember that trip to Bosnia... there was a saying around the White House that if a place was too small, too poor, or too dangerous, the president couldn't go, so send the First Lady. Thatâ??s where we went.
I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base. -Hillary Clinton, March 17, 2008
Or, maybe not:
Bosnia was not "too dangerous" a place for President Clinton to visit in early 1996. In fact, the first Clinton to visit Bosnia was not Hillary, but Bill, on January 13, 1996.
Far from running to an airport building with their heads down, Clinton and her party were greeted on the tarmac by smiling U.S. and Bosnian officials. An eight-year-old Moslem girl, Emina Bicakcic, read a poem in English. An Associated Press photograph of the greeting ceremony shows a smiling Clinton bending down to receive a kiss.
You can see CBS News footage of the arrival ceremony
here. The footage shows Clinton walking calmly out of the back of the C-17 military transport plane that brought her from Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany.
According to Sinbad, who accompanied Clinton on the trip along with the singer Sheryl Crow, the "scariest" part was deciding where to eat. As he told Mary Ann Akers of The Post, "I think the only 'red-phone' moment was: 'Do we eat here or at the next place.'" Sinbad questioned the premise behind the Clinton version of events. "What kind of president would say 'Hey man, I can't go 'cause I might get shot so I'm going to send my wife. Oh, and take a guitar player and a comedian with you."
