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MSNBC / TwitterHillary Clinton: The Reagans, particularly Nancy, helped start "a national conversation" about HIV and AIDS. https://t.co/7sZp8X53fb
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) March 11, 2016
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HILLARY CLINTON HAS apologised for praising Nancy Reagan’s work on HIV and AIDS, saying she ‘misspoke’.
The funeral of former US First Lady Nancy Reagan was held today but Clinton has been forced into an embarrassing apology after facing a backlash over her comments.
Earlier today, Clinton had said that Reagan and the former President had ‘started a conversation about AIDS’.
Speaking on MSNBC, Clinton said:
It might be hard for your viewers to remember how difficult it was for people to talk about HIV/AIDS in the 1980s. And because of both President and Mrs. Reagan, in particular Mrs. Reagan, we started a national conversation when before no one would talk about it, nobody wanted to do anything about it.
But her comments sparked bewilderment among people who remembered gay activists finding it difficult to secure federal funding to help fight the disease.
There was a perception at the time that Reagan’s reluctance was a hesitation in being seeing to help something that was seen as an issue for gay people.
People online were not slow in pointing out Clinton’s error.
Chad Griffin / TwitterWhile I respect her advocacy on issues like stem cell & Parkinson's research, Nancy Reagan was, sadly, no hero in the fight against HIV/AIDS
— Chad Griffin (@ChadHGriffin) March 11, 2016
A few hours later, Clinton issued an apology, saying she misspoke.
Hillary Clinton / TwitterHillary Clinton’s statement on her comments about the Reagans' record on HIV and AIDS: pic.twitter.com/RtIs0zpJfk
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) March 11, 2016
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Two separate tracks.
Goods from the cargo train fell off and hit the passenger train which was traveling in the opposite direction. Looks like it was high winds that caused this.
@Brian Henoll: how did you deduce this oh mighty Sherlock? Oh right, it said exactly that in the article. So, not so much deduction as reptition.
Lots of Irish people travelling this route in the next days.
@Thomas Meaney: Why would lots of Irish people be travelling this route in the next few days? RIP to all involved.
@Thomas Meaney: how come mate.
If Carlsberg did train crashes…..
If Carlsberg did train crashes…..
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