Chelsea Clinton will testify to her mother’s credentials
At her father’s 1992 nominating convention, a campaign aide suggested that Chelsea, then 12, introduce her dad after the biographical video with a simple: “Ladies and gentleman, the next president of the United States, my dad, Bill Clinton”.
One daughter loves and knows her parent for who she is; the other seems to view him as a distant figurehead who tells, not shows.
It would appear that politics are simply too pervasive (and vital) right now to not slip into the previously neutral friendship.
Clinton calmly ripped into the Republican National Convention, saying she found most offensive the party’s “open embrace of conversion therapy” – a controversial treatment program meant to change a person’s sexuality. “I got a lot of both”. As Life put it in early 1945, “Daddy’s girl is running Daddy”.
ET was with Hillary in May, when she said that she’ll definitely have a nursery in the White House for her grandchildren should she win the election in November! Figuring out what she could do, who she could call.
Anna Roosevelt was the exception. But she grew up in front of America, in front of reporters and photographers who documented her father’s successful presidency and disastrous extramarital affairs.
“I think Chelsea could play a really great role in connecting with me as a young female, without children, and the issues that are most important to me”, said Crystal Moore, a Sanders delegate from Cambridge.
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While Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton promise to take the country in vastly different directions, the two women auditioning to be Anna Roosevelt’s successor have much in common. “A children’s summit. Maybe just a daughter summit”. “We all hope for a better tomorrow”, the narrator (who is, by coincidence, Morgan Freeman) says. “She told me one time her parents left her overnight by herself; she was 3 or 4 years old”, Clinton says.
She has become a key asset to her mother’s campaign, with a unique ability to make a personal pitch, softening and humanizing Hillary Clinton’s image to that of a mother and grandmother.
“My mom is a listener and a doer, a woman driven by compassion, by faith, by kindness, a fierce sense of justice and a heart full of love”.
But now, after trying to straddle a delicate balance of her own path and yet still upholding her familial obligations, she has returned to the starring role of political daughter.
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