It isn't everyday that we get a
visit from a U.S.
Senator and former First Lady.
So it was a special treat when
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton visited the Nott Memorial on Wednesday, Feb. 18, to
host a Community Renewal Leadership Symposium with upstate New
York mayors to talk about how cities can obtain
grants through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Renewal.
After arriving in a small motorcade at the east door of
the Nott, Clinton
met with students, at one point remarking that her office has benefited from a
number of interns from Union College.
She also was taken with the architecture of the Nott Memorial.
After the event, Clinton
was interviewed in the Nott for a segment on CNN's The Dobbs Report.
And later that day, the Nott was
the setting for a talk by environmental advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who made
his case for the stewardship of the environment and the fight against
polluters.
Said one student after Kennedy's
talk, “In my four years here, this is the best program I've seen.”
What only a few knew was that the
College nearly scored what one staffer called a “Democratic trifecta.”
Presidential hopeful John Edwards considered a campaign stop on
campus earlier this week. Instead, he visited a Green
Island manufacturing plant.