navy blue silks. they 22nd, 2008 and in the homestretch of the very long race of the democratic nomination along the way she had run into a phenomenon a first term senator from illinois half white and half african-american named barack obama. davis leave first called the first black president watched the black community hillary and bill had seen old friends like mexico governor richardson endorse obama. but despite many setbacks the delicate helped was close -- the delegate count was close she had a strong argument where she was a strong candidate but again she needed delegates. one week later hillary clinton and did her presidential race in front of hundreds of supporters in washington d.c. hers was not the first presidential campaign and could not be thou last which is a topic of this book. so what i call the good old days when parties control the nominations. we forget some of our great presidents eisenhower end at eisenhower were nominated in convention. nobody voted for these guys. with rose and