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."
Sounds like she has her mothers memory!
Unfortunately, yes. Maybe somebody slipped something in her latte' that made her forget she was jogging.
From kattracks thread on this story:
I was 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.
Chels when are you going to learn? Your parents lie like a rug. As a matter of fact if I were you I'd never believe another word that comes out of their pie holes. 22 posted on 11/9/01 2:14 AM Pacific by BigWaveBetty
EXACTLY! I wonder if they cut off part of her inheritance, because she didn't get on TV or in the news that very day. ;-D
My uncle was in an office on a high floor at the Nassau County Medical Center -- which is far into Nassau County -- and saw not only smoke, but flames. He had to be at least 30-40 miles away from the WTC.
While we were running up South Street, I was listening to people who had evacuated from office buildings, so I knew about the Pentagon, knew about the plane in PA, heard the false rumor about the car bomb at the State Department, etc. I figured that the whole world probably knew what was going on in my little corner of the world.
Since I had seen the flames and debris cloud very close-up and in person, seeing it on TV didn't do so much for me.
I'm just glad that you were OK!
You are correct! Those harsh cleaning chemicals did not do damage to your mind. I'm terrible at searching for stories, but will see what I can find and post it here.
Let this be a lesson to all you liars out there! Much easier to remember the truth!
So this is how a Stanford grad/Oxford grad student writes. Amazing! More proof, Chelsea went to college just to eat her lunch.
Sorry I can't be more help, maybe someone else will catch the ad or I'll see it again at lunch today.
What a prissy little snit!
Correction: that's prissy little LYING snit!
If she left the apartment when she said she did then she couldn't have known about the Pentagon crash. Unless "her" SS agents told her about it - if so was she ever in danger or even near ground zero?
Wish some of these guys would retire and write a real "tell all" book covering the dreadful Klintoon years.
Now, that I do believe.
Yes.
You know, now that I look at her again, you may be right. Where is Popeye when you really need him?
That's a great point!
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