Chelsea Clinton

Chelsea Victoria Clinton (born February 27, 1980) is the only child of President Bill Clinton and United States Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Chelsea was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. Her name was inspired by her parents' fondness for the Judy Collins recording of the Joni Mitchell song "Chelsea Morning". ^*

Teenager at the White House

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. She spent her teenage years there and attended the elite private Sidwell Friends School. She was a National Merit Scholarship semifinalist in 1997. Having taken dance classes since she was four years old, she 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, Chelsea participated in Model United Nations conferences and can be considered a Model UN veteran.

Although she was generally kept out of the public eye, there were a few notable exceptions. In August 1998, a couple of days after President Clinton's address to the nation in which he admitted to an inappropriate relationship with Monica Lewinsky, Chelsea was placed prominently between her mother and father as they walked towards the Marine One helicopter to take them on their family vacation. On a separate occasion 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.^*

She assumed her mother's White House Hostess responsibilities from January 3 to January 20, 2001, which was the period from her mother's becoming a U.S. Senator from New York to the end of her father's presidency. Clinton 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.

As a child, her Secret Service codename was "Energy."

Absorbing criticism

The Mainstream Media generally saw her as "off limits," with one notable exception. On a 1992 post-election Saturday Night Live, the characters Wayne and Garth listed her in a "babe countdown" where — after raving about the Gore daughters — they referred to her as a "babe in development" SNL producer Lorne Michaels apologized to the Clinton family, as did Wayne actor Mike Myers [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/01/22/DDGJO4EJ9U1.DTL, and subsequent rebroadcasts were edited to remove that part of the dialog.

Clinton's critics have strayed from the rule on multiple occasions.

On November 6, 1992, three days after her father won the elections, in a reference to who is moving in and out of White House, Limbaugh made a reference to Chelsea and Millie, the dog of outgoing President George H. W. Bush. At the moment where Limbaugh said "cute kid," the picture of Millie appeared onscreen. Limbaugh apologized during that show and gave a lengthier apology a few days later.

Throughout the 1990s speculation circulated among some Clinton critics that Chelsea was the love child of Hillary and Webster Hubbell (less often, Vince Foster). Senator John McCain also circulated a joke that Chelsea's "real father" was Janet Reno, for which he later apologized personally to the President. [http://www.salon.com/news/1998/06/25newsb.html

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 New York Post later apologized.

Contrary to the mainstream media, the tabloids, such as The Globe, have not extended her a zone of privacy. They have not apologized.

Life after the Clinton Presidency

Chelsea graduated from Stanford University with a degree in history in 2001; her undergraduate thesis was on her father's mediation of the 1998 Northern Ireland peace agreement. She went on to earn a Master's degree at University College, Oxford University in international relations.

In 2003, she joined the consulting firm McKinsey & Company in New York City, reportedly earning a six-figure salary ^*.

Living under the shadow of Bill and Hillary Clinton

Chelsea has never publicly commented about any of her parents' policies or public statements. On May 15, 2006, Hillary Clinton apologized for remarks she made about young people's work ethic, after Chelsea privately took exception to Hillary's comments ^*.

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Teenager at the White House

Absorbing criticism

Life after the Clinton Presidency

Living under the shadow of Bill and Hillary Clinton