Hillary and Bill Clinton in January 2018.Photo: Kevin Mazur/Getty
Bill Clintonis getting ready for another season of festivities in the Big Apple.
“Hillary says I’ve always been our family’s Christmas elf,” the 75-year-old former president tells PEOPLE during an interview about hisnew video lecture serieswith MasterClass.
This year, Clinton and his wife — former Secretary of StateHillary Clinton— will continue a tradition of decamping from theirChappaqua, New York, hometo spend the holiday in New York City with daughterChelsea, her husband, Marc Mezvinsky, and their three children: Charlotte, Aidan and Jasper.
“We always go down on Christmas Eve, spend the night and have Christmas Day with them,” Clinton says. “And I think it’s the right thing to do, intergenerationally. And then we normally go to the train display at the Bronx Zoo. It’s great.”
The holiday season has long been a special time for the Clintons. Hillary, her husband says, took special pride in how the family tree (kept on display in the upstairs residence) was decorated when the two lived at the White House.
“Even when we were in the White House, and they have that huge Christmas tree, she took responsibility every year for how it would be decorated and what we would do at Christmas,” he says. “One of the most valuable things that came out of that was her effort to get American artists and craftspeople to contribute to Christmas.”
Bill (left) and Hillary Clinton.AP Photo/Mark Duncan
“It’s down at the library and we’ve always got parts of it on display,” he says.
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Clinton is close-lipped on what he’s getting his wife this year, though he says his track record with gifts includes a few big winners.
“Every now and then I had a home run,” he says. “I gave her a ring once after we had been married for 25 years, and she liked that a lot.”
source: people.com
