Profile: Bill Richardson Story aired: Friday, April 13, 2007
What was the governor of New Mexico doing this week in North Korea? Bill Richardson was formally there to collect the remains of six U.S. soldiers killed during the Korean War. He also had a say in negotiations over North Korea's nuclear program.
But Governor Richardson, a Democrat, is also running for president of the United States. And his trip can't help but remind voters that he also was a congressman from New Mexico for 14 years, and President Clinton's U.N. ambassador and energy secretary.
Today we begin a series of profiles of presidential candidates, starting with Richardson.
Not everyone knows that the 59-year-old is the son of a Boston banker and a Mexican woman, as a child both played in the dusty streets of a Mexican barrio and attended high society lawn parties as well as the private Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts.
To tell us a little bit more about the man who hopes to be the first Hispanic president of the U.S. is Thom Cole, investigative reporter for the Albuquerque Journal, who co-authored a lengthy five-part biographical series on Richardson.
