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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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KEYWORDS: chelseaclinton; personalaccount
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To: MinuteGal
No!!Please No!There cant be TWO crusty pant suits!You will upset the balance of nature!!
161 posted on 11/08/2001 1:45:28 PM PST by cardinal4
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To: mountaineer
Shoot, and I thought Chelsea was not allowed to talk in public because she had some speech impediment (lisp, hair lip, stutter, stammer whatever). I never dreamt she was so stupid!!
162 posted on 11/08/2001 1:47:12 PM PST by daisyscarlett
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To: NYCVirago
I wonder if Chelsea bumped into Monica while she was walking around in a daze. BTW, what was Monica doing on 9-11? Perhaps she will also write her reminiscences of that day. Chelsea was thinking about the Bush Tax Cut but perhaps Monica had her mind on a certain other type of Clinton cut.... The type the doctor performs soon after birth.
163 posted on 11/08/2001 1:49:40 PM PST by PJ-Comix
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To: NYCVirago
If our country was under attack from terrorists does anyone think that the SS would ever let a former first child out on the street???? Her friend said to stay put and GW was flying around the country but Chelsea just goes for a walk. How many Secret Service heads would roll if she were kidnapped. Finally, it is obvious that the SS has emegency lines that would work under any circumstances such as this. Hillary/Bill and Chelsea were never out of contact through the SS cell phones. What lies!! She is not so innocenseces! Pray for GW and the Truth!
164 posted on 11/08/2001 1:55:31 PM PST by bray
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To: NYCVirago
..."I tried to call my mother, but after I said hello to her assistant the line went dead," Clinton wrote.

Why should she be surprised? When she sprained her ankle and was on crutches leaving a photo-op, her mother, the Hillary, practically pushed her down a flight of stairs.

165 posted on 11/08/2001 1:56:30 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: Utah Girl
Well, this is p*ss-poor writing coming from a college graduate.

Yes, but of course that's what happens when you never go to class and your degree is just given as a political favor to your parents.

166 posted on 11/08/2001 2:00:09 PM PST by FITZ
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To: gaspar
Did she not even run this article through a spell-checker? I guess no teacher has ever had the nerve to correct any of her papers - or she never actually wrote one herself. Unbelieable!
167 posted on 11/08/2001 2:01:26 PM PST by TX Bluebonnet
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To: mountaineer
All this time I've been trying to imagine her jogging through lower Manhattan with a latte grande in her hand, and now - much to my chagrin - I learn that she wasn't jogging at all, but wandering around in a daze. Where am I? What was that noise? What effect will tax cuts have on New York in the aftermath of this attack? Where am I?

You know, when I started reading this thread, my dad phoned and I started reading to him some of the best posts, but when I got to this one, I just burst out laughing and couldn't talk for a minute. :-D

168 posted on 11/08/2001 2:05:05 PM PST by NYC GOP Chick
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To: Lucky2
How could she have fought her way through the thousands of people going in the opposite direction? Even this dimwit might have noticed that everyone else in town was walking, if not running, the other way. Just another payoff to the Klintons, probably enough to pay for her entire fake Stanford and Oxford degrees, with lots extra for travel expenses.

The tax cut comment was such a reach in this fantasy one can detect easily the not-so-subtle hand of Mommie-dearest in this drivel. Clumsy as all get-out, but the leftists don't care. They know the liberal media will print it and the sheeple will devour it and beg for more.

169 posted on 11/08/2001 2:05:56 PM PST by austingirl
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To: Lucky2
What a piece of garbage...yeah city is attacked and the first thing I worried about was Bush's tax cuts. ROFLMAO...
170 posted on 11/08/2001 2:10:10 PM PST by nancetc
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To: mombonn
She is probably doingan English Major.
171 posted on 11/08/2001 2:10:49 PM PST by OldEagle
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To: Howlin
And remember, Bill Clinton, in Australia didn't know where she was...so DOES she or DOESN'T she have her "trained pigs" guarding her? If she does, then her whole story is a crock of bull crap.

Chelsea is a hollow as her Mother...an empty shell of hot air.

sw

172 posted on 11/08/2001 2:12:15 PM PST by spectre
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To: FITZ
Apparently not even Stanford U. could overcome 12 years of publik eddicachin in Arkansas.
173 posted on 11/08/2001 2:12:23 PM PST by MAWG
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To: mountaineer
LOL!!!
174 posted on 11/08/2001 2:12:34 PM PST by stands2reason
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To: js1138
My 26 year-old son also wandered the streets of Manhattan after the attack. He wrote an 8 page e-mail within 24 hours, describing his fear and confusion. (He worked a couple blocks away). His account is completely honest, has no political agenda, and is rather embarrasingly sentimental. After getting home, the first thing he did was put his cat in a carrier and go out in search of his girlfriend. He made a lot of bad decisions which wound up being OK. I believe his account because it isn't self-serving.

I seriously doubt he gave any thought to the tax cut.

I also wandered the streets of Manhattan that morning and not only did I not give a crap about tax cuts, I didn't care about much other than trying to avoid being killed, helping this guy who was literally in shock (he was in the first tower when it was hit and was wandering around aimlessly) and reaching my father.

I *still* haven't written out an account of what I saw and experienced that morning.

So, what happened with your son's girlfriend? Is she OK???

175 posted on 11/08/2001 2:13:28 PM PST by NYC GOP Chick
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To: Lucky2
innocences

I can't find this word in my Websters third college edition. I can find innocencies. She is an Oxford student?.

176 posted on 11/08/2001 2:15:12 PM PST by gunshy
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To: NYCVirago
>Why would she leave the appartment she was staying in to go find another phone?? Why would a pay phone be any different from the phone in her friends apt??

>And why would she head TOWARDS DOWNTOWN to find a working payphone? Anybody with any brains would head the opposite direction.

Are they telling us that Chelsea Clinton does not have a cell phone ???? This story is an insult to anyone with half a working brain cell.

177 posted on 11/08/2001 2:19:34 PM PST by Darnright
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To: dead
Sheez! I laughed so hard I had to use my inhaler! You could have killed me, but it was worth it! Thanks.:-)
178 posted on 11/08/2001 2:20:12 PM PST by stands2reason
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To: NYCVirago
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.

To be fair, cell phones stopped working sometime probably around 9:15 that morning. But I still wonder how Chelsea Einstein decided that it was a good idea to head *toward* the disaster site to find a phone, especially since so many people were running in the other direction -- and were screaming as they ran. Maybe she thought they were screaming at the sight of her? [smirk]

179 posted on 11/08/2001 2:22:01 PM PST by NYC GOP Chick
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To: Lucky2
Does anyone know where I can find the ENTIRE article? I need some more bellylaughs. I sure hope Rush talks about this article on the air.
180 posted on 11/08/2001 2:22:26 PM PST by PJ-Comix
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