Bill Clinton Re-Signs a Letter He Wrote When President

Former President Bill Clinton got a blast from his past at a campaign stop in Iowa City today, when a young supporter presented him with a letter penned and signed by the president from when he was in office.

Julius Goldberg-Lewis, 22, told a crowd of just over 450 people of his first interaction with Clinton via snail male when he was only 6 years old.

"He knows Hillary, and he knows what it takes to be president of the United States. He did it twice," Goldberg-Lewis said. "But that didn't stop me from giving him some unsolicited advice back in the late 1990s."

"I won't get into the specific details of my plan for dealing with such a nuanced international incident," he said jokingly. "But I'll let you know it's exactly what you would expect from a 6-year-old boy or possibly even a Republican presidential candidate."

When Clinton took the stage, he assured the crowd that he did in fact pen a response to Goldberg-Lewis' letter and personally signed it. The president also signed and dated that 16-year-old letter again today.

"Thanks for writing me then and for caring now and helping Hillary," wrote Clinton to Goldberg-Lewis.

Similarly in 1985, a 5-year-old Chelsea Clinton wrote President Reagan a letter which read, "Dear Mr. President, I have seen the Sound of Music. The Nazis don’t look like very nice people. Please don’t go to their cemetery."

"She's 5 years old. She put her very best stickers on it and all that, and she never got an answer. And she never got over it, and I never forgot it," Clinton said. "So that's why Julius got his letter."

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