--- title: This Is What Hillary Clinton Might Call Bill If Elected description: The candidate hasn't quite settled on a title for her husband canonical: https://time.com/4102755/hillary-clinton-bill-clinton-election/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-06T14:49:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T12:24:35.687Z article:section: Politics og:title: This Is What Hillary Clinton Might Call Bill If She’s Elected og:description: The candidate hasn't quite settled on a title for her husband og:url: https://time.com/4102755/hillary-clinton-bill-clinton-election/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a848df70393c0b4/69886feb5f570f66d8b1e335/hillary-clinton-jimmy-kimmel.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: hillary-clinton-jimmy-kimmel og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Is What Hillary Clinton Might Call Bill If She’s Elected twitter:description: The candidate hasn't quite settled on a title for her husband twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a848df70393c0b4/69886feb5f570f66d8b1e335/hillary-clinton-jimmy-kimmel.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # This Is What Hillary Clinton Might Call Bill If She’s Elected by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Nov 6, 2015 2:49 PM UTC  Randy Holmes—ABC/Getty Images by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Nov 6, 2015 2:49 PM UTC Should Bill Clinton return to the White House in his capacity as spouse, what will people call him this time around? When Jimmy Kimmel posed the question to Hillary on Thursday, she had a few suggestions: “First Dude, First Mate, First Gentleman.” Admittedly, the abbreviations FDOTUS, FMOTUS and FGOTUS don’t have that ring that FLOTUS has. But the presidential candidate says she’s still not sure exactly what title would be best for the guy who’s used to walking around the White House as “Mr. President.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4102755/hillary-clinton-bill-clinton-election/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4102755/hillary-clinton-bill-clinton-election/"},"headline":"This Is What Hillary Clinton Might Call Bill If She’s Elected","datePublished":"2015-11-06T14:49:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:24:35.687Z","description":"The candidate hasn't quite settled on a title for her husband","url":"https://time.com/4102755/hillary-clinton-bill-clinton-election/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a848df70393c0b4/69886feb5f570f66d8b1e335/hillary-clinton-jimmy-kimmel.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a848df70393c0b4/69886feb5f570f66d8b1e335/hillary-clinton-jimmy-kimmel.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"hillary-clinton-jimmy-kimmel","caption":"","creditText":"Randy Holmes—ABC/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4102755/hillary-clinton-bill-clinton-election/","name":"This Is What Hillary Clinton Might Call Bill If She’s Elected"}}]}] ```