Hillary Clinton makes book tour stop in Boston

BOSTON -- Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton returned to Boston Tuesday to promote her memoir.

Clinton spoke to the sold out crowd at the Boston Opera House about her historic win as the first woman nominated for president by a major party, as well as the heated presidential campaign and her devastating loss.

“Everyone gets knocked down in life,” Clinton said. “What matters is whether you get up and you keep going.”

Speaking about resilience and overcoming a painful loss, Clinton also made light of how she coped.

“I’ll admit, there were times when I was tempted to just pull the covers over my head,” Clinton said. “But I spent time with my family and friends. I read a lot, especially mystery novels, because you get the bad guy in the end. I like those stories.”

In her memoir, ‘What Happened,’ Clinton blames her failed bid for president on her own mistakes, as well as what she claims were false accusations by Donald Trump, the email scandal she says she sets straight in the book, Russian interference in the election and what she considers the public’s reluctance to embrace a female president.

“The only way we will get sexism out of politics is to get more women into politics,” Clinton said, adding that the country accepted her in supporting roles as First Lady and Secretary of State, but wasn’t ready to elect her to the nation’s highest office.

But Clinton insisted she is more focused on the present and future, calling out Republicans on a tax plan she calls an abomination and a president she says is weak on Russia.

“Don’t let anybody get away with saying to you, ‘Oh, this Russia thing, it wasn’t a big deal,’” Clinton said. “No foreign power in American history has attacked us with so few consequences. And that puts us all at risk.”

Clinton’s next stop on her book tour is Philadelphia, where she accepted the Democratic nomination for president.

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