Former President Bill Clinton on Queen Elizabeth II: "She was an amazing woman"
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"It was wise not to underestimate her," former President Bill Clinton said of Great Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, who died Thursday at the age of 96. "She was a smart person. She knew what she was doing. And she believed that the life she had devoted to preserving the British monarchy was not a wasted life."
Clinton, like almost every other president since Dwight Eisenhower, made it a point to see – and be seen with – Queen Elizabeth.
Correspondent Rita Braver asked, "Why did American presidents time after time carve out time to do this, to meet with someone who really didn't have any actual power?"
Nothing says a warm day quite like the beach, but beyond the shore lies a number of dangers, from rip currents and strong waves to shark attacks and bobbing jellyfish. Onshore, however, you will likely find a flag warning you of potential dangers, and whether it's purple, yellow, red or blue can tell you which hazard could be lurking in the waters.
A woman died while hiking in western Colorado on Monday as a heat dome blanketed pockets of the American West and drove up temperatures in a number of states. Marsha Cook, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was pronounced dead after collapsing around the two-mile mark of a hiking trail at Colorado National Monument, officials said Wednesday. She was 54.
Embattled aircraft giant Boeing Wednesday argued to the Justice Department that the company has upheld its end of a 2021 deferred prosecution agreement, and pushed back at federal prosecutors who wrote last month that the plane manufacturer has violated the deal and risked being prosecuted, two people familiar with the discussions confirmed to CBS News.