The Clintons Celebrate Oktoberfest In Munich

05 October 2018, Bavaria, Munich: Bill Clinton, former US President, and a guest (unknown) hugging each other in the Kaefer tent at the Oktoberfest. The biggest folk festival in the world runs between 22 September an... 05 October 2018, Bavaria, Munich: Bill Clinton, former US President, and a guest (unknown) hugging each other in the Kaefer tent at the Oktoberfest. The biggest folk festival in the world runs between 22 September and 07 October. Photo: Tobias Hase/dpa (Photo by Tobias Hase/picture alliance via Getty Images) MORE LESS

BERLIN (AP) — More than 6 million visitors, 7.5 million liters of beer, 124 rotisserie oxen and Bill Clinton in lederhosen; another Oktoberfest in Munich has come and gone.

Festival organizers say good fall weather helped attract 100,000 more people to the annual event than last year; in all, 6.3 million from about 70 countries. That’s despite this year’s Oktoberfest, which ended Sunday, last only 16 days — two fewer than in 2017.

Former U.S. President Clinton and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton showed up Friday night — he dressed in traditional Bavarian garb and she in a trademark pantsuit.

Security guards confiscated 101,000 liter-size beer mugs from sticky-fingered guests seeking souvenirs. Munich authorities cleaned up 95 tons of garbage during the festival.

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  1. Wish you were here!

    Love,

    Bill

  2. Avatar for aiddon aiddon says:

    I can dig it

  3. “Ich bin ein Bier Trinker!”

  4. Kavanaugh would love it there. The level of drinking is insane.

  5. I am a regular defender of their right to be seen and heard, but if either of them are in lederhosen, I am drawing the line.

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