your daughter to dinner or a movie or whatever we were doing. i think he loved that intimidation factor. what about your mom? what would she do when you would bring boys home? she already knew them. i m so close to my mom. she had already asked me and grilled me on anything she felt she needed to know. i remember one stage she brought and he was going through that stage where he would wear a baseball cap all the time. i finally said you have to take that baseball cap off. we re in the white house, we re having dinner and you cannot sit at the table with that baseball cap on. so it was just being a regular mom. another regular mom moment, when chelsea graduated from high school and left the nest, fall 1997. she was teary almost every day that her child was going away to college. my mom just i think couldn t
effect. whenever she appeared, the gap between her mother and obama seemed to shrink. i need to go tell anyone and everyone who may have an iota of interest in listening to me why i m so passionately supporting my mom as a daughter, as a democrat, as an american. oh, i think she ll be more than the voice of change. the tide slowly started to turn, but there was not enough time to catch up. june 3rd, 2008, the last day of democratic primaries. clinton took south dakota. i will be the democratic nominee. but obama won enough delegates to clinch the nomination. it was over. hillary clinton responded with the speech of a lifetime. although we weren t able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it s got about 18
think at that point that s who was keeping them together, chelsea. chelsea. yeah. there s no program. it s the president s birthday. the president and first lady have shown little affection following the grand jury testimony. this is a family that s got some healing to do. how difficult was it to go through something so private, so personal under the glare of the spotlight of the first lady? it was really hard. it was painful. and i was so supported by my friends. my friends just rallied around. they would come, they would try to make me laugh, they would recommend books to read. we d go for long walks, we d hang out, you know, eat bad food. just the kinds of things you do with your friends.
while barack obama engaged young voters in a new way, clinton s campaign seemed stuck in the 90s. there was a scriptness about hillary in the early part of the campaign. too measured. there was a lot of debate among her strategists about exactly how to humanize her, how to make her more accessible to people. in fact, there was a lot of debate among her strategists about everything. it wasn t just good old fashioned healthy debate. there was some infighting. you know, but you know, campaigns under stress have that. it s true. the race was tight as they approached the all-important iowa caucuses, so the campaign turned to its secret weapons. so i wanted to introduce you to my mom and my daughter. an ad called dorothy hit the airwaves. what i would like people to know about hillary is what a good person she is. and chelsea joined her mother
clintons asked the press to steer clear of chelsea. she and president clinton were adamant about maintaining a zone of privacy around chelsea. hillary had spent a lot of time talking to jackie kennedy onassis about that, about how to raise young children in the white house. and how to raise a teen-ager. imagine having your date pick you up at the white house and your father is the president. my father would intimidate them, as i think any father, oh, just, you know, kind of quite sternly standing there at the top of the stairs as they had to walk up and say i m here to take your daughter to dinner or a movie or whatever we were doing. i think he loved that intimidation factor. what about your mom? what would she do when you would bring boys home? she already knew them. i m so close to my mom. she had already asked me and grilled me on anything she felt she needed to know.