Hillary Returning to White House for Arts Event Next Week
Former Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton is set to make a rare public appearance at the
White House, attending an arts event next week with first lady Jill
Biden.
The White House
announced that Clinton is scheduled to appear Tuesday to help honor the
2023 winners of the Praemium Imperiale, a global prize awarded annually
by the Japan Art Association for lifetime achievement in the art
Praemium Imperiale laureates were first celebrated at the White House by President Bill Clinton and the then-first lady in 1994.
Bill Clinton had lunch
with Biden at the White House in May 2022, a month after former
President Barack Obama returned to the White House for the first time
since the end of his administration for an event celebrating his
signature health care law.
Hillary Clinton, a
former New York senator who served as Obama's secretary of state from
2009 to 2013, lost her 2016 bid for the presidency to Donald Trump
The White House announcement means next Tuesday's event is set to go
forward despite the first lady testing positive for COVID on Monday. She
is recuperating in Delaware, and White House press secretary Karine
Jean-Pierre said Wednesday that "the first lady is doing well."
