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Iowa - Just as mega-star Oprah Winfrey began trying to woo thousands of people across three states to vote for Barack Obama, his main rival, Hillary Clinton, brought a surprise guest to the campaign trail yesterday - her daughter Chelsea.

more stories like thisIt was the first time that the famous former first daughter had been seen anywhere in public campaigning for her mother's presidential bid. She joined her grandmother, Dorothy Rodham, who also showed up for the first time during the race Friday night in Des Moines.

Chelsea Clinton, 27, wore a broad if somewhat frozen smile and waved briefly as her mother introduced her to 75 people shivering in an unheated airport hangar here.

After a few minutes on stage, she led her grandmother to sit down, while the New York senator spoke about her plans for care for the elderly.

Encouraging voters to bring a "buddy" to the Jan 3. caucuses, Hillary Clinton called her mother and daughter her buddies.

"This has got to be multigenerational; we all have to work together," Hillary Clinton said, about the challenges the nation faces.

Although the Clinton family has guarded Chelsea's privacy over the years, she appeared frequently on the trail when her mother ran for the Senate in 2000. So political observers have been speculating about whether she would be deployed as a secret weapon when Hillary Clinton hit a bump in the road or when her image needed extra humanizing.

This weekend, the candidate could use a little of both, as polls increasingly suggest that her prospects for winning the first-in-the-nation caucus are shaky, and as Winfrey stepped in for Obama as perhaps the most valuable celebrity endorsement in America.

But the Clinton campaign kept Chelsea's visit to Iowa a secret and did not try to replicate the glitz of Oprah's stadium appearances before thousands of people. Chelsea Clinton first showed up yesterday morning at a Des Moines deli, then hit the road to two campaign stops. The first, here in rural Madison County, was a particularly modest Clinton campaign event with a small crowd in a tiny, barebones airport with just a few propeller planes outside.

The daughter, who works at a hedge fund in New York, didn't speak publicly but shook hands and chatted with voters.

"Is there anything I can tell you that would put you over the edge for my mom?" she asked a woman in Des Moines who called herself undecided.

Clinton spokesman Jay Carson contended Chelsea's Iowa visit was scheduled based on her other time commitments, not in response to Winfrey's campaign swing. He said she would appear again as her schedule permits.

"She's excited to get out and see Iowa and spend some time with her mom," Carson said. "She's a very busy woman with a very time-consuming
Chelsea Clinton
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Chelsea Clinton

In the White House: Chelsea (lower right), together with her parents, Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Born February 27, 1980 (1980-02-27) (age 27)
Little Rock, Arkansas
Education undergraduate degree in history (Stanford University)
Master's degree in international relations (University College, Oxford University)
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Parents Bill Clinton
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Chelsea Victoria Clinton (born February 27, 1980) is the daughter and only child of former US President Bill Clinton and 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, Chelsea attended Forest Park Elementary School, Booker Arts 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."

Contents
1 Teenager at the White House
1.1 Absorbing criticism
2 Life after the Clinton Presidency
3 References
4 External links



[edit] 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.[1]

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.

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 placed prominently between her mother and father as they walked towards 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.[2]

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.


[edit] 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."[3] SNL producer Lorne Michaels apologized to the Clinton family, as did Wayne actor Mike Myers,[4] and subsequent rebroadcasts were edited to remove that part of the dialogue. Also, on the January 16th, 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 compared 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?"[5][6] 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 for writing an article about Chelsea for The Stanford Daily, after the paper stated a policy of not writing about the new freshman unless she did something newsworthy.[7][8]
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.[9] 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.[10]
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", and "Chelsea is a Clinton. She bears the taint."[11]

[edit] Life after the Clinton Presidency

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 majored in chemistry with an interest in medicine before switching to history after 2 years.[12] 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.[12]

In 2003, Clinton joined the consulting firm McKinsey & Company in New York City, reportedly earning a low six-figure salary; she was the youngest person hired in her class, hired alongside those holding MBAs.[13][12]

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.[12]

She dated Ian Klaus and they broke up in 2005.[14] She is currently dating Marc Mezvinsky, a Goldman Sachs employee and a graduate of Stanford University. He is the son of disgraced former Congressman Edward Mezvinsky (D-Iowa) and Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, also a former member of Congress from Pennsylvania.[12][15]

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.[4]

Clinton has never publicly commented about any of her parents' policies or public statements. 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.[16]

Since 2005, Clinton had 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 attempting to avoid the neighborhood's traditionally poor image.[citation needed] The two Midtown West neighborhoods are sometimes lumped together by real estate agents as "Chelsea Clinton" and there was a local weekly newspaper "Chelsea Clinton News" before she became the famous first daughter. 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.[17]

She serves on the board of the School of American Ballet.[12] She has also served as co-chairwoman of a fund-raising weekend for her father's Clinton Foundation.[12]

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.


[edit] References