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 and grandmother on the stump and in the diners. just laughing a lot with my grandmother and mother because my grandmother was really excited about the egg salad sandwich that she said was like the best egg salad sandwich she d had in, i don t remember, 20 or 30 years. to show voters more of her humor and humanity, hillary clinton started to talk less about policy and more about people. my mother had a difficult childhood but worked hard to provide a loving home for us. but it was too late. obama beat her badly in iowa and looked likely to do the same in new hampshire. things looked really, really bleak.
i mean, i don t remember a time when my mom wasn t be attacked. charges of sex, lies and audiotapes. there is not a sexual relationship, that is accurate. january 1998, halfway through chelsea s freshman year, news broke that bill clinton had an affair with white house intern monica lewinsky. sources say the tapes include her graphic details of a sexual relationship. he denied it. i want to you listen to me. i m going to say this again. i did not have sexual relations with that woman, miss lewinsky. and as she had done so many times before, hillary stood by her husband. she immediately said it s just not true, patti. so she felt get out there, get ahead of this, deny it and save it. we re not going to let this
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 believe that i was going to california. i think that was more upsetting to her than just me going to college. she was like can t you find somewhere closer? chelsea arrived at stamford on air force i. was welcomed by fans and friends.
house i think was really both extraordinary and pretty ordinary. 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
other than to be me. but do you ever see a version and say who is that person? oh, 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. i wish more people on the kind of public advocacy side could recognize 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. i was watching backstage and i