administrator. she was really surprised about the upheaval about his 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.
not leaving here till you pick up every kernel of that popcorn. from the beginning the 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 teenager. 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 was she like when you would
it s important that you have an updated chemistry lab. and by the way, we re going to have to pay for it as a state. that creates some criticism. there are large numbers of children who are written off at an early age. ultimately what she got done was that arkansas adopted new sets of higher education standards. it meant higher expectations for children across the state, just like the expectations they had for chelsea at home. they treated chelsea almost as an equal. i mean, she was in on all the conversations that they had. i think that s why she is so smart, number one, and interested in everything. i played softball in our local hillcrest league and took ballet and piano. but no matter what chelsea was into, both of her parents were always cheering her on. i think my dad was more the embarrassing one. i would like walk out on the field, and my dad was, yes!
it was extraordinary because it was the white house. it was also pretty ordinary. most of the time we had dinner together every night. it was one of the benefits of what my dad calls living above the store. we just made it more like a real home and her friends were always welcome, we had lots of kids in the white house all the time. amazing memories of being 12 and 13 and playing hide and seek. it was so much fun. my parents were always just like don t break anything but otherwise go forth and play hide and seek. well, this is the green room, and it s one of my favorites. if something did break or there was a mess, hillary made sure chelsea cleaned it up. the kids were watching a movie and hillary went down when it concluded and discovered there were popcorn all over the theater. and she said to them, you are not leaving here till you pick
party time. one of the 82 countries hillary clinton visited as first lady. look, look. you see? with her, 15-year-old chelsea. we have a big problem with people thinking they don t have a future. young women and young men who are very cynical about their future. chelsea was no longer a little girl. she had grown up. and, like her mother, had her own opinions and her own voice. good morning, good morning, how do you do they shared these magnificent and almost life-changing experiences together. experiences that hillary clinton made sure were balanced with a healthy dose of normalcy. well, growing up in the white house i think was really both extraordinary and pretty ordinary.