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Former First Daughter Writes First Person Account of Sept. 11...(Barf Alert)
The Oregonian ^ | 11/8/01 | The Associate Press

Posted on 11/08/2001 12:07:26 PM PST by Lucky2

Former first daughter writes first-person account of Sept. 11 for magazine The Associated Press 11/8/01 3:08 PM NEW YORK (AP) -- Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton, who was 12 blocks away from the World Trade Center when it collapsed, has written an account of that day for Talk magazine.

"Before Sept. 11 I wouldn't have believed I had many innocences left," begins the four-page story in the December issue of the magazine. "I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters. ... Despite all that, I woke up that Tuesday morning feeling good about where I was in my life and happy about where I was going."

Clinton was near Union Square, at the apartment of longtime friend Nicole Davison, when the first hijacked airliner hit Tower One. Davison, who had left for work, called Clinton and told her to stay where she was. Like many Americans that day, Clinton turned on the television and watched as the second plane hit.

"I tried to call my mother, but after I said hello to her assistant the line went dead," Clinton wrote. She ventured outside to find a working telephone, and ended up walking downtown -- toward the towers.

"I remember very little about how I got so far downtown. ... I don't know whether I was on the corner or in the middle of the block," she wrote. "I do remember standing in line at a phone somewhere and hearing a deafening rumble."

The noise Clinton heard was the collapse of Tower Two.

Clinton later found Davison and another friend, and the three spent the day working their way uptown. Clinton wrote that a "somewhat irrational medley of thoughts" was running through her head, including concerns about President Bush's tax cut.

"I worried that with the tax cut we wouldn't have enough money to repair New York and D.C. and to help the families of the thousands I knew must have died," she wrote.

At one point, she stopped to pray and thank God that her mother was a senator representing New York and that the city was led by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani -- a leader Clinton wrote she "had been criticizing just the day before for some insensitivity or other."

When Clinton finally got through to her mother, who was in Washington, she burst into tears of relief. She later spoke with her father, who was in Australia.

"The next night I saw my mother, and early Thursday morning I saw my dad in Chappaqua," Clinton wrote. "It was only after I had seen them both that I finally felt secure again in my own skin."

Now studying in Oxford, England, Clinton says she is frustrated to be away from America. She says she encounters anti-American sentiments every day.

"For more than 21 years I lived with the assumption that I was safe, with a sense of security so profound I didn't even know I had it," Clinton wrote. "Today I find myself shocked into a new awareness of how much I loved the country I grew up in."


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To: mountaineer
Her "Exploratory Commitee"speech,you mean!
141 posted on 11/08/2001 1:06:00 PM PST by cardinal4
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To: Lucky2
concerns about President Bush's tax cut.

I was worried sick about that allthat day, myself (Poor Chel, didn't think the public could find their way with out the government.) .

I have a daughter about Chelsea's age in Chicago. She called me, worred sick because they might be next, but at least she made sense about it and she dosen't have the benefit of a degree from a hot shot university.

142 posted on 11/08/2001 1:10:54 PM PST by oyez
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To: dead
Mr. Dead: your #82,

stop, my kid thinks I'm a loon, laughing at my computer

...thanks for the chuckle...

143 posted on 11/08/2001 1:12:04 PM PST by dakine
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To: NYCVirago
Well, let's go to the map:

For those unfamiliar with the city, Union Square is located above the word "Manhattan", WTC was above the words "financial district" and just to the right of the little 9A symbol.

Looks like a little over two miles. Chelsea would have had to RUN, instead of "finding herself wandering downtown", in order to be anywhere close when the first tower fell.

144 posted on 11/08/2001 1:12:32 PM PST by hellinahandcart
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To: oyez
Here's another thread on this topic, an article from a British newspaper.
145 posted on 11/08/2001 1:12:49 PM PST by mountaineer
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To: jacquej
""Listen up, folks. The real problem we have is that the democrats eat this stuff up. We do not havae a plan for that, no matter how much we are disgusted... They love this crap, will pay for it, will slaver over it, and there isn't a lot we can do about it. That, to me, is more disgusting than her babble."" Only the terminally stupid democrats eat this up. Why do you think democratic voter registration continues to drop. People aren't that STUPID anymore. Only the hopeless morons will buy into this crap and they can't properly punch a ballot.
146 posted on 11/08/2001 1:14:24 PM PST by KSCITYBOY
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To: Lucky2
Clinton later found Davison and another friend, and the three spent the day working their way uptown. Clinton wrote that a "somewhat irrational medley of thoughts" was running through her head, including concerns about President Bush's tax cut.

"I worried that with the tax cut we wouldn't have enough money to repair New York and D.C. and to help the families of the thousands I knew must have died," she wrote.

Irrational is right...

147 posted on 11/08/2001 1:18:27 PM PST by xm177e2
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To: Lucky2
"I worried that with the tax cut we wouldn't have enough money to repair New York and D.C. and to help the families of the thousands I knew must have died," she wrote.

[Vomit]

148 posted on 11/08/2001 1:19:10 PM PST by Petronski
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To: NYCVirago
Yikes! There are as many versions of this as there are of how her prick of a father dodged the draft.

As for the line going dead when she called her mother's assistant, unless it was a cellphone, she's full of it. And even the cell phones didn't go out until 15-20 minutes after the second plane hit. How do I know? I was on mine -- and a LOT closer to the towers -- within a few minutes after the south tower was hit. I also know that regular (i.e., landline) phones that weren't actually in buildings that were hit or damaged worked for some hours afterward. How do I know? I live a few blocks from Ground Zero and was able to reach my answering machine well into the afternoon -- until building #7 collapsed.

Anyway, what kind of superbrain girl leaves an area that is completely safe and heads *toward* the site of two terrorist attacks, especially when the rest of us mere mortals were evacuating toward uptown?

I hope Tina Brown filed this one in the fiction section.

Oh, and Union Square is quite a bit further than 12 blocks away from the WTC.

149 posted on 11/08/2001 1:24:30 PM PST by NYC GOP Chick
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To: MississippiMan
Wonderful! #36 pretty much says it all.
150 posted on 11/08/2001 1:25:49 PM PST by Sal
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To: hellinahandcart
Thanks for the map. Let's digest what Chelsea claims, and compare it with the facts:

Clinton was near Union Square, at the apartment of longtime friend Nicole Davison, when the first hijacked airliner hit Tower One. Davison, who had left for work, called Clinton and told her to stay where she was.

So, she wasn't jogging, she wasn't having coffee, she wasn't even outside when the first plane hit. And Union Square is not exactly next door to the WTC. Time the first plane hit: 8:48 a.m.

Like many Americans that day, Clinton turned on the television and watched as the second plane hit.

Time the second plane hit: approximately 9:07 a.m.

"I tried to call my mother, but after I said hello to her assistant the line went dead," Clinton wrote.

Okay, remember the story about how Hillary didn't know for hours if her daughter was safe? This is a lie, of course -- she reached Hillary's assistant before the phone went dead!

She ventured outside to find a working telephone, and ended up walking downtown -- toward the towers.

So Chelsea didn't have a cell phone, wasn't around anybody with a cell phone, her friend's land line phone was dead, and what does she decide to do -- walk towards downtown to find a working phone? Give me a break.

"I remember very little about how I got so far downtown. ... I don't know whether I was on the corner or in the middle of the block," she wrote. "I do remember standing in line at a phone somewhere and hearing a deafening rumble." The noise Clinton heard was the collapse of Tower Two.

Look at the timeline -- she was still indoors when the second tower got hit, which was 9:07 a.m. Tower Two collapsed at 10:00 a.m. And don't forget that she was in the apartment attempting to call her mother after the second tower got hit. Let's say, for argument's sake, that she left the apartment at 9:15. How far downtown do you think she could have gotten, considering the hordes of people heading uptown? She certainly would not have made it very close in those 45 minutes -- perhaps she could have walked one mile, but I doubt even that. And notice how she has this convenient memory lapse about not remembering exactly how she got that far downtown.

151 posted on 11/08/2001 1:28:55 PM PST by NYCVirago
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To: NYC GOP Chick
First plane hits-Chelsea hustled into car at chappequa and speeds toward Manhattan.Second Plane hits-Chelsea is let out of the USSS car with a cell phone and is admonished by her mother to look dishelveled while talking excitedly to me,and by any means necessary,make sure you are on TV!"
152 posted on 11/08/2001 1:33:11 PM PST by cardinal4
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To: Howlin
"Oh POPEYE, look what Bluto did......."
153 posted on 11/08/2001 1:33:58 PM PST by ozone1
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To: Sloth
BTW, how many version of Chelsea's 9/11 story are there?

There was the jogging and grabbing a cup of coffee version and now we have the loss of "innocences" and wandering the streets in a daze version. Don't worry. There will be more versions.

154 posted on 11/08/2001 1:36:03 PM PST by PJ-Comix
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To: NYC GOP Chick
Anyway, what kind of superbrain girl leaves an area that is completely safe and heads *toward* the site of two terrorist attacks, especially when the rest of us mere mortals were evacuating toward uptown?

Because she's Chelsea Clinton, supergirl! And thanks for the phone info -- it looks like she's caught in another lie. I'll bet there are literally millions of New Yorkers who witnessed more firsthand that day, and who have more interesting stories to tell. Yet who gets four pages in Talk magazine -- somebody who was in absolutely no danger, and who thought about the Bush tax cut when thousands were dying!

155 posted on 11/08/2001 1:36:50 PM PST by NYCVirago
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To: NYCVirago
Ill never understand what it is the family has the so enthralls the media,everyone is inspired to retch.
156 posted on 11/08/2001 1:38:20 PM PST by cardinal4
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To: Howlin
You paged me for this garbage? I thought you were my friend! .. ;-)

I haven't read all the replies ..... but I'm wondering who forced her to go to Oxford. Seems to me that if it is too painful, she could just pack up and come back home ..... though I'd much rather she just took mommy and daddy over there to babysit her.

157 posted on 11/08/2001 1:38:33 PM PST by kayak
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To: cardinal4
I don't get it either. And I just read in the New York Post the other day about how Tina Brown was whining because the Bush Administration still refuses to be interviewed by Talk Magazine (they established this edict after the "Bush daughters in jail" fashion spread that Talk ran a few months ago.)
158 posted on 11/08/2001 1:39:59 PM PST by NYCVirago
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To: Lucky2
"The next night I saw my mother, and early Thursday morning I saw my dad. It was only after I had seen them both that I finally felt secure again in my own skin."...What Chelsea needs for Christmas is a plaster cast of Daddy's hand to carry around as a security blanket when he's not with her. And a crusty black pantsuit like Mommy Dearest's to wear every day as a suit of armor for her pasty own skin.

Leni

159 posted on 11/08/2001 1:43:37 PM PST by MinuteGal
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To: NYCVirago
I didnt see the article,but I heard about it here,its no wonder they wont allow themselves to interviewed by them.I was never this adamant about politics before the last two years of the 'toon administration.I have a healthy dislike for anything liberal or labeled Democrat,including Talk Mag.
160 posted on 11/08/2001 1:44:13 PM PST by cardinal4
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