article_snippet.sent: Clinton met Tuesday with  Mary Louise Hancock, the grand dame of New Hampshire liberal politics and a woman who wields enormous grassroots organizing power in the Granite State .
article_snippet.sent: Clinton's first afternoon meeting came at the home of Mary Louise Hancock, the 95-year-old grand dame of New Hampshire Democratic politics.
article_snippet.sent: The significance of the get-together is real: Democrats seeking any major office in the Granite State have sought Clinton counsel and kissed Clinton ring for decades.
article_snippet.sent: Clinton's first afternoon meeting was an hours-long affair at the New Hampshire Democratic Party headquarters, which hosted Clinton while a crowd of reporters and photographers waited in vain for Clinton to answer questions.
article_snippet.sent: IN CONCORD: Clinton smiled after a roundtable conversation with students and faculty of New Hampshire Technical Institute, the community college local to CONCORD, New Hampshire .