South Florida welcomed former President Bill Clinton as part of the 85th United States Conference of Mayors, Saturday.
Speaking at the four day-event, which is being held this weekend at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach, the former commander in chief praised the conference’s host city. “The city adopted a whole new motto and a commitment to inclusion and to working together,” he said.
"@mayorlandrieu did a gutsy thing, took a lot of grief for taking down statues of confederate war heroes." – @billclinton #uscm2017 pic.twitter.com/TZu9DvDaz3
— U.S. Mayors (@usmayors) June 24, 2017
Clinton also addressed the hot-button topic of climate change. “All this controversy about America getting out of the Paris Agreement, you can get out of it or in it, but the water’s going to keep rising,” he said. “The politics have almost no influence on science, in case you hadn’t noticed, or nature.”
The annual summer gathering brought together more than 250 mayors from across the country to the U.S., Latin America and the Caribbean to discuss a wide range of issues.
It’s the first time Miami Beach has hosted the event since 1962.
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