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Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., coughs as she conducts a roundtable discussion at the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, Conn., Monday, Feb. 4, 2008. Generally a stalwart campaigner, Clinton showed signs of strain during the roundtable at one point coughing uncontrollably. "It comes and goes," she said, wiping her eye and sipping water to get her cough under control. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., coughs as she conducts a roundtable discussion at the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, Conn., Monday, Feb. 4, 2008. Generally a stalwart campaigner, Clinton showed signs of strain during the roundtable at one point coughing uncontrollably. "It comes and goes," she said, wiping her eye and sipping water to get her cough under control. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola) (Elise Amendola - AP)
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., gets emmotional as she speaks about her time as a volunteer at the Yale Child Study Center, Monday, Feb. 4, 2008, in New Haven, Conn., during a round table discussion. Clinton volunteered at the center while she was a law student at Yale in the 1970's. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., gets emmotional as she speaks about her time as a volunteer at the Yale Child Study Center, Monday, Feb. 4, 2008, in New Haven, Conn., during a round table discussion. Clinton volunteered at the center while she was a law student at Yale in the 1970's. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola) (Elise Amendola - AP)
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., listens as she is introduced at a roundtable discussion at the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, Conn., Monday, Feb. 4, 2008. Clinton volunteered at the center while she was a law student at Yale. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., listens as she is introduced at a roundtable discussion at the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, Conn., Monday, Feb. 4, 2008. Clinton volunteered at the center while she was a law student at Yale. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola) (Elise Amendola - AP)
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., conducts a roundtable discussion at the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, Conn. Monday, Feb. 4, 2008. Clinton volunteered at the center while she was a law student at Yale in the 1970's. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., conducts a roundtable discussion at the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, Conn. Monday, Feb. 4, 2008. Clinton volunteered at the center while she was a law student at Yale in the 1970's. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola) (Elise Amendola - AP)
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., listens during a roundtable discussion at the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, Conn., Monday, Feb. 4, 2008. Clinton volunteered at the center while she was a law student at Yale in the 1970's. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., listens during a roundtable discussion at the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, Conn., Monday, Feb. 4, 2008. Clinton volunteered at the center while she was a law student at Yale in the 1970's. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola) (Elise Amendola - AP)

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By BETH FOUHY
The Associated Press
Monday, February 4, 2008; 8:43 PM

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton had an emotional reunion Monday with a colleague from the early days of her legal career as a child advocate. The moment came as she revisited her law school days while hosting a campaign event at the Yale Child Study Center where she first pursued her interest in child advocacy.

Penn Rhodeen, a New Haven public interest lawyer who worked with Clinton as a student, recalled her showing up on his doorstep wearing purple bellbottoms.

"It was so 1972," he recalled, praising Clinton for her longtime interest in helping children.

"Here is the abiding truth we know _ you have always been a champion for children. Welcome home, dear friend. We are so proud of you," he said.

Clinton responded emotionally to Rhodeen's praise, at one point wiping her eyes with her hand. But unlike her teary-eyed moment in Portsmouth, N.H., her voice never broke and she tried make light of her emotion.

"I said I would not tear up. Already we're not on that path," Clinton replied to laughs.

Some credited her New Hampshire display of emotion _ during a discussion of how she is affected by campaigning for president _ with aiding her comeback in that state from an earlier defeat by rival Barack Obama in Iowa.

Generally a stalwart campaigner, Clinton was showing signs of strain Monday _ at one point starting to cough uncontrollably in the middle of an economic round-table with a dozen women voters.

"It comes and goes," she said, sipping water to get her cough under control.

It was the first event in a packed schedule the last campaign day before Super Tuesday, when voters in 22 states were headed to the polls. With polls showing the former first lady in a tight race with Obama across several states holding contests, Clinton was making stops later Monday in Massachusetts and in New York, where she was taping the Letterman show and hosting a 90-minute town hall meeting to be broadcast live on the Hallmark Channel.


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