Aide: Obama, Bill Clinton to meet

WASHINGTON, June 30 (UPI) -- A top aide to Hillary Clinton says former President Bill Clinton and likely U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama will soon meet.

Terry McAuliffe, campaign chairman for the former Democratic presidential candidate New York senator said Senator Obama, D-Ill., and Bill Clinton will get together in the next few days, CNN reported Monday. The network said the meeting would put to rest reports the two party giants are feuding after the bruising primary election battle between Obama and Senator Clinton.

"(Bill Clinton) was angry that these ridiculous stories were out here, and these supposed close friends of the president -- none of the close friends ever got called," McAuliffe told CNN, referring to anonymous sources quoted in some stories. "What happens a lot of time is people like to pretend they're close so they can tell the reporters that they're close, but, you know, they're just talking."

McAuliffe told the network he spoken to Bill Clinton Sunday morning after the former president had returned from a trip to Europe.

The comments came after Obama and Hillary Clinton appeared together Friday in New Hampshire where Clinton expressed support for Obama's presidential bid.