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Chelsea Clinton
In the White House: Chelsea (lower right), together with her parents, Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Born (1980-02-27) February 27, 1980 (age 44)
Little Rock, Arkansas
Educationundergraduate degree in history (Stanford University)
Master's degree in international relations (University College, Oxford University)
Height1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Parent(s)Bill Clinton
Hillary Rodham Clinton

Chelsea Victoria Clinton (born February 27, 1980) is the daughter and only child of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and 2008 Presidential candidate and current United States Senator Hillary Clinton. She was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. Her name was inspired by her parents' fondness for Judy Collins's recording of the Joni Mitchell song "Chelsea Morning".

In Arkansas, Clinton attended Forest Park Elementary School, Booker Arts and Science Magnet Elementary School and Horace Mann Junior High School. In Washington, she attended Sidwell Friends School. She received her undergraduate degree in history from Stanford University and a graduate degree from Oxford. She has made few public comments on her upbringing but has said that her parents were "firm but fair."

Teenager at the White House

Chelsea with her parents in the 1997 inaugural parade.

Chelsea Clinton moved into the White House on the day of her father's inauguration on January 20 1993, when she was twelve years old.

Clinton spent her teenage years there and attended the Sidwell Friends School, where she was on the varsity soccer team. Before Chelsea came to Washington, D.C., some people debated over whether the president should choose a public school or a private school for her. Debarah Fallows wrote a 1992 editorial for the Washington Monthly asserting that the Clintons should enroll Chelsea in a public school.

She was a National Merit Scholarship finalist in 1997. Having taken dance classes since she was four years old, Clinton began taking ballet courses at the Washington School of Ballet in 1993. She played the role of the Favorite Aunt in the Washington Ballet's 1996 production of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. During her early schooling years, Clinton participated in Model United Nations conferences.

Generally kept out of the limelight, in August 1998, a few days after President Clinton's address to the nation in which he admitted to an inappropriate relationship with Monica Lewinsky, the teenage Clinton was seen walking prominently between her mother and father as they approached the Marine One helicopter to take them on their family vacation. On February 5, 1999, just before the Senate's vote on impeachment, People magazine ran a cover story on Chelsea Clinton. The cover story irked the First Family, as well as the Secret Service.

Clinton assumed her mother's White House Hostess responsibilities from January 3 to January 20, 2001, the period during which Hillary began her term as a U.S. Senator from New York until the end of her father's presidency. Chelsea did not assume the style of First Lady, generally accorded unofficially to the wives of Presidents who serve or have served as the White House Hostess.

Absorbing criticism

The mainstream media generally saw her as "off limits," with a few notable exceptions. On a 1992 post-election Saturday Night Live, the characters Wayne and Garth compiled a list of 10 reasons they were happy Bill Clinton had been elected. After raving about the Gore daughters — the next item on the list read "Chelsea," regarding whom Wayne said "While it's true that adolescence has been thus far unkind, we think she's gonna be a future fox." SNL producer Lorne Michaels apologized to the Clinton family, as did Wayne actor Mike Myers, and subsequent rebroadcasts were edited to remove that part of the dialogue. Also, on the January 16, 1993 broadcast of the show, actress Julia Sweeney did an impersonation of Chelsea, which mocked her awkward adolescent attributes.

Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh was accused of comparing 13-year-old Chelsea to a dog:

  • On November 6, 1992, three days after her father won the elections, when Chelsea was still in braces, Rush Limbaugh said the following on his television show: "Everyone knows the Clintons have a cat; Socks is the White House cat. But did you know there is also a White House dog?" He then pointed to a video monitor, which switched to a picture of Chelsea. Limbaugh has claimed that it was a technical error.

Chelsea's other press encounters include the following:

  • In 1997 Stanford University senior Jesse Oxfeld was fired from The Stanford Daily for writing an article about Chelsea after the paper stated a policy of not writing about the new freshman unless she did something newsworthy.
  • In 1998, the New York Post ran a story about Chelsea breaking up with her boyfriend of the time and seeking treatment for stress. The White House objected to this level of attention. The Post later apologized.
  • In 1998, Salon.com criticized the mainstream media for not directly quoting an off-color joke made by Sen. John McCain at a Republican fundraiser, in which he ridiculed Chelsea (who was a teenager at the time) along with Hillary Clinton and Janet Reno by saying, "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno".
  • In 2001, as President Clinton was leaving office, The National Review contributing editor John Derbyshire authored a column specifically attacking Chelsea, in which he wrote "I hate Chelsea Clinton because she is a Clinton", and "Chelsea is a Clinton. She bears the taint." Mr. Derbyshire went on to discuss his "dynastic" view of the Clintons, and how he saw Chelsea as part of and party to the dynastic aspirations of her parents.
  • On February 8, 2008, while filling in for Tucker Carlson on MSNBC's Tucker program, MSNBC correspondent David Shuster questioned whether Hillary Clinton had been "pimping out" Chelsea Clinton to personally speak with undecided Democratic primary delegates. As a result, Hillary Clinton's campaign reportedly may consider withdrawing from the MSNBC debate scheduled for February 26, 2008 in Cleveland, Ohio. Shuster was subsequently suspended by MSNBC for the comment.

Life after the Clinton Presidency

Proudly seeing her mother Hillary Clinton sworn in as United States Senator, January 3, 2001.

Clinton turned down Harvard, Yale, and Princeton to attend Stanford University. She had declared a major in chemistry with an interest in medicine before switching to history after two years. In 2001, she graduated with distinction from Stanford; her undergraduate thesis topic was her father's mediation of the 1998 Northern Ireland peace agreement. She went on to earn a Master's degree at University College, Oxford, in international relations.

In 2003, Clinton joined the consulting firm McKinsey & Company in New York City; she was the youngest person hired in her class, hired alongside those holding MBAs.

In the fall of 2006, she left McKinsey and went to work for Avenue Capital, a hedge fund run by Marc Lasry, a loyal donor to Democratic causes generally, and heavy supporter of the Clintons.

The 2004 film Chasing Liberty was said to be inspired by a photograph of Clinton at a Stanford basketball game, trying to blend in with other students.

Chelsea Clinton speaking during a campaign stop at Cal Poly for her mother in February 2008.

Until Hillary began her presidential campaign, the younger Clinton had never publicly commented about any of her parents' policies or public statements. Chelsea did, however, begin to rally support for her mother and speak publicly on her behalf. On May 15, 2006, Hillary Clinton apologized to Chelsea for critical remarks she made about young people's work ethic, after the younger Clinton privately took exception to her mother's comments.

Since 2005, Chelsea Clinton has lived in the mid-Manhattan west side neighborhood of Chelsea. The neighborhood north of it, Hell's Kitchen, has been referred to as "Clinton" by real estate agents (before Ms. Clinton moved there). The two Midtown West neighborhoods are sometimes known as "Chelsea-Clinton". There was a local weekly newspaper for the area called "Chelsea Clinton News". As of 2006, Chelsea had moved to a building in the Gramercy area of Manhattan (just east of Chelsea). During the November 2006 mid-term election, in which her mother was running for re-election to the Senate, attention was drawn to her residence when it was discovered that an error at her 20th Street polling station had resulted in her name not being on the voting books. Clinton was allowed to vote via a paper ballot.

Chelsea Clinton speaking to students on behalf of her mother's campaign at the University of Missouri in January of 2008.

She serves on the board of the School of American Ballet. She has also served as co-chairwoman of a fund-raising week and for her father’s Clinton Foundation.

In December 2007, Chelsea campaigned for her mother's Democratic presidential primary in Iowa, greeting potential voters at Palmer's Deli in Des Moines, joined by her mother. In January 2008, she made several campaign stops in California, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Nevada, Arkansas, Missouri and Utah. During February 2008, Chelsea made more campaign stops in California, New Mexico, and Nebraska.

References

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  2. Fallows, Debarah (December 1992). "First choice: why Chelsea Clinton should attend a public school". Washington Monthly. Retrieved 2007-06-25.
  3. King, John (1999-02-05). "Secret Service concerned over Chelsea Clinton cover story". CNN. Retrieved 2007-06-25.
  4. Schlussel, Debbie (2001-01-30). "No Chelsea treatment for you". WorldNetDaily. Retrieved 2007-06-25.
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  6. Roberts, Roxanne (1996-02-27). "16 Candles for Chelsea". Washington Post. pp. D1. Retrieved 2007-06-25.
  7. Ivins, Molly (May/June 1995). "Lyin' Bully". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2007-06-25. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. "Stanford student columnist fired; broke 'Clintonian' rule". CNN. 1997-09-30. Retrieved 2007-06-25.
  9. Hentoff, Nat (1997-10-15). "The First Daughter and the Press". Village Voice. Retrieved 2007-06-25.
  10. Kurtz, Howard (1998-11-26). "Open Season On Chelsea? Tabloids Say She's Now Fair Game". Washington Post. pp. C1. Retrieved 2007-06-25.
  11. Corn, David (1998-06-25). "A joke too bad to print?". Salon.com. Retrieved 2007-06-25.
  12. Derbyshire, John (2001-02-15). "Be Very Afraid: Clinton's legacy". National Review. Retrieved 2007-06-25.
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  14. ^ Jodi Kantor, Primed for a Second Stint as First Daughter, The New York Times, July 30, 2007. Cite error: The named reference "NYT073007" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
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  16. "Sen. Clinton Apologizes To Chelsea". AP. 2006-05-15. Retrieved 2007-06-25.
  17. Barron, James (2006-11-08). "Mother's on ballot, but daughter's not in voting book". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-06-25. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  18. "Chelsea Clinton Guards Her Words". CNN. 2007-12-31. Retrieved 2008-01-01.
  19. Chelsea Clinton steps into California spotlight to rally for mother
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