license plate, and evidently that made people furious. bill clinton loses the election and goes into a total depression. a heartbreaking end to a year that began with pure joy. back in february, hillary had given birth to their little girl, chelsea victoria clinton. the next two years are very important years for our child s development. you know, they re really pivotal years. i m grateful that i m going to be able to spend some more time with her. more time with their daughter and more time to figure out where to go from here. hillary decides that the only way to restore and have their life is if she can bring him back. so what does she do? she takes over. hillary constructed a political comeback plan. step one, bill s apology tour. you betcha i m asking for a second chance. i m proud of it. i asked hillary for a second chance more times than i care to remember. step two, hillary s new name.
sometimes two people showed up, sometimes 1,200 people showed up. some called it the chelsea 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
smart, number one, and interested in everything. i played softball in the local hillcrest league and i took ballet and piano. but no matter what chelsea was into, both of her parents were always cleheering her on. my bad was the embarrassing one. i would walk on the field and my dad would say, yes! so my mom would cheer with just as much enthusiasm, but probably more appropriate intervals. rutherford spent many evenings cheering on their daughters from the softball stands but in the summer of 1991, clinton had something else on her mind. we started talking about presidential politics and i was promoting the fact and saying, well, i don t think the democrats have a chance in 1992. there s just entitled no wabsol. i remember she looked at me and said, what the democrats need is
i believe is the right thing to do. i don t know anything else to do other than to be me. but do you ever see a version and say who is that person? all the time. i read things about me and i say, i wouldn t like her either. i mean, really, who is this person? it s so clear to me who my mother is. she s kind, hilarious, compassionate, warm, loving. she does have, i think, the best laugh. i wish more people could see that. and i wish more people in the kind of public advocacy side could recognize kind of her lifelong commitment to children and to families and that really has been the core thread of her life. the core of her life and the core of her mission. to break that final glass ceiling. please welcome chelsea clinton. that moment when your daughter was on stage and introduced you as her mother and the first female presidential nominee of a major party, what was that like for you? oh, my gosh.
name. it is one of the reasons he might have lost the governorship after one term. after only two years in office voters kicked bill clinton out of the governor s mansion in a stunning defeat. i regret that i will not have two more years to serve as governor. bill clinton raised the price of their car tax for their license plate, and evidently that made people furious. bill clinton loses the election and goes into a total depression. a heartbreaking end to a year that began with pure joy. back in february, hillary had given birth to their little girl, chelsea victoria clinton. the next two years are very important years for our child s development. you know, they re really pivotal years. i m grateful that i m going to be able to spend some more time with her. more time with their daughter and more time to figure out where to go from here. hillary decides that the only