Apparently it went well.
In Hillary Clinton's new memoir, she describes her secret meeting with then Illinois senator Barack Obama before the 2008 Democratic National Convention as "two teenagers on an awkward first date." The quote comes courtesy of CBS News, which obtained a copy of Hard Choices days before its June 10 release.
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