Hillary Clinton ducks object thrown at her during Las Vegas speech 
 
 Hillary Clinton, addressing the annual Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries convention at Mandalay Bay Thursday, knew she would be following in the footsteps of George W. Bush, who spoke at the convention two years ago, but she was surprised to join the former president as the target of a shoe attack. “My goodness, I didn’t know that solid waste management was so controversial,” she added, referring to what she was talking about when the protester took action around 1:52 p.m. “Thank goodness she didn’t play softball like I did.” 
 
 The audience of more than 1,000 people attending the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries’ annual convention applauded Clinton’s gumption and some stood, giving her a standing ovation. She was escorted out of the convention by convention center security and Secret Service officers, and convention organizers said police would be called. The woman did not yell anything out, and immediately walked briskly to the ballroom exit. “We have to be stronger about going after countries in the WTO, like China, now like Russia, like any others who try to put those barriers up,” Clinton responded. The thrower declined to give her name, but said she threw her shoe and "dropped" some papers. She did not use the stage to announce her plans for the 2016 presidential race, but did mention her book due out this summer chronicling her four years as secretary of state. Jerry Simms, the outgoing chairman of the scrap metal recycling trade group, started the Q-and-A by apologizing to Clinton for what he called “that crude interruption.” 
 
 Clinton, a former U.S. senator from New York and President Barack Obama’s first secretary of state, was asked about a range of issues, several centered on whether the administration was robust enough in its responses to international crises.
– Hillary Clinton had to be fast on her feet during a speech in Las Vegas today. A woman in the audience chucked a shoe that whizzed past her head, reports the Las Vegas Sun. "Good thing she didn't play softball like I did," said Clinton, drawing laughter. The unidentified woman apparently threw a stack of papers, too, before being escorted from the convention to face arrest, reports the Review-Journal. Clinton was speaking before the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, and the woman wasn't part of the convention, says a spokesperson. It's unclear at this point what prompted her protest. "My goodness, I didn’t know that solid waste management was so controversial,” said Clinton. (Click to see George W. Bush's famous close call with a shoe in Iraq.)