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Clinton spent some time in Little Rock yesterday. He was 45 minutes late to his own fund-raiser (what's new) and spent 15 minutes shaking hands and posing for pictures. About 300 people paid $100 each for a luncheon of Froglegs and catfish.
He then spent some time at the Statehouse Convention Center boring a crowd of about 800, giving them a half-hearted lecture, stressing that "We're going to be OK. I am grateful for the unity our country has shown behind President Bush and his national security team". (We all believe this?)
He talked about Chelsea's experience in the WTC bombing. "She fled to Grand Central Station and had to run away once again during a bomb scare". "Chelsea said,'Dad, I thought there was a good chance we were all going to die,'"Clinton told the crowd. (Clinton is exceptional at telling stories).
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any New Yorkers know how far Grand Central is from Union Square????
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Here' her story on September 26:
Chelsea to Chronicle Harrowing Twin Tower Escape
Chelsea Clinton is set to tell the world about her alleged brush with death in the World Trade Center collapse, and how her last-minute decision to go for coffee instead of a jog around the Twin Towers saved her from a horrible fate.
That and the six Secret Service agents still assigned to protect her.
While it's unclear whether her bodyguards will rate a mention in the piece she's been invited to pen for the November issue of Talk magazine, you can bet her screed will be a real page-turner.
We won't be a bit surprised to learn, for instance, that Chels and her dad spent many a White House night playing Scrabble into the wee hours while plotting to get Osama bin Laden.
The New York Observer, which first reported the news of young Clinton's journalistic debut, said she was so moved by the episode that she's stopped giving interviews. (We hadn't noticed she'd started.)
In fact, it was her senator mom who first piqued interest in her daughter's Twin Tower adventure when she told NBC's Jane Pauley, "Chelsea was going to go [jogging] around the towers. She went to get a cup of coffee and that's when the plane hit."
Mrs. Clinton next claimed she wasn't able to reach her child for two whole hours after the attack, and was afraid to tell her husband - who was busy scooping up six-figure speaking fees in Australia at the time.
With all three tethered to a small army of Secret Service agents, it's hard to imagine such a total communciations breakdown. But the Clintons have never been sticklers for inconvenient details.
Talk initiated the idea of Chelsea telling her Twin Tower tale, the Observer said, noting the magazine's long history of support for the Clintons.
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Which version is correct? The daughter is not as clever as the mom. Hitlery must teach her the fine are of keeping your lies straight.
the spawn of satan knows no lie too difficult to utter
Oh, wait! She was jogging towards Grand Central with a coffee on a treadmill at her friend's house. Okay. Gotcha. {/sarcasm}