MICHELLE R. SMITH, Associated Press
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton has paid tribute to a longtime friend who died last week.
Bill and Hillary Clinton attended the service for Mark Weiner Tuesday at the Temple Beth-El synagogue in Providence, Rhode Island. Weiner was a major Democratic donor and fundraiser.
In the eulogy, Bill Clinton said Weiner was fiercely competitive in business and politics and would do anything for his friends, as well as for complete strangers. Clinton remembered Weiner as “forever young.”
Weiner died in Newport after a long battle with cancer. He was 62.
The Clintons departed with the family. Hillary Clinton appeared upset and nodded to people as she left.
Weiner has been friends with the Clintons since 1976, when he worked with Hillary Clinton on Jimmy Carter’s presidential campaign.
