Posted on 09/30/2001 7:23:16 PM PDT by aculeus
CHELSEA CLINTON arrived to take up her place at University College, Oxford, yesterday accompanied by her father, Bill, and a host of security men.
Miss Clinton had caused alarm for her parents because she was jogging close to the World Trade Centre on September 11 when the atrocities took place and was unable to tell them she was safe for two hours. Yesterday the former president was at her side as she started life at the college he attended in the late 1960s.
Having said goodbye to her mother, Hillary, a New York senator, Miss Clinton, 21, arrived in Britain with her father, who is expected to remain for several days to help her settle in.
Both Britain and the US provided security officials as she pulled up outside the college buildings. A university spokesman said that it had spoken to both countries to ensure appropriate security measures during her two-year course for a MPhil in international relations.
"Miss Clinton has indicated that she hopes to lead a normal student life, both in terms of her studies and her social life," the spokesman added.
"That was my room," Mr Clinton told his daughter, pointing to the window ledge and adding: "And that was where I used to put the milk to keep it cool. We had no refrigerators."
Miss Clinton, a history graduate from Stanford University, California, will have her own room but with shared facilities. Her first week - freshers week - will be spent getting used to her new home. Her studies begin in earnest next Monday and she joins the college officially at the matriculation ceremony on Oct 13.
The university spokesman indicated that no additional security had been considered necessary following the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington. However, Thames Valley police officers patrolled the narrow cobbled streets around her college before the Clinton motorcade arrived.
Mr Clinton remained outside talking to staff and officials and reminiscing about his time in Oxford, but Chelsea appeared anxious to get inside and escape the drizzle.
Her father attended the university as a Rhodes scholar from 1968-70, staying in accommodation at the back of University College in Kybald Street, once home to the most notorious brothel in Oxford.
No, he just put his glasses on.
It's all about you, isn't it, dad?
While the VIP seats in the cockpit remained empty, mind you.
Stay Safe H666....
Me too!
That only applies if they live in the same place. We do not have to provide one detail for her and one for him; he has to "share" some of his with her.
"We had no refrigerators."He was obviously having flashbacks of growing up a rodent in some backwater Arkansas swamp (they *do* have swamps in Arkansas, don't they?).That must be Oxford English.
That's Louisiana, Arkansas has old River beds that look like swamps. LOL!
This is 100% pure unadulterated BS! “She’d gone on what she thought would be just a great jog,” says Sen. Clinton. “She was going to go down Battery Park. She was going to go around the Towers. She went to get a cup of coffee and that’s when the plane hit.” Chelsea was close enough to hear the rumble? “She did hear it,” says Clinton. “She did.” And to see the smoke in person, not on television? “That’s right,” she says.
From this article on FR:ON TUESDAY MORNING Sen. Hillary Clintons’ first thought when the second plane hit was “terrorists.” Her next thought was “Chelsea,” who was not only in New York, but staying downtown.
And from later in the same article:“She’d gone on what she thought would be just a great jog. She was going to go down Battery Park. She was going to go around the Towers. She went to get a cup of coffee and that’s when the plane hit.”
There was another article I've searched for but can't find where The Hildebeast sez Chelsea staying with friends in NYC (I believe she sez 12 blocks from the WTC but I may have the number of blocks wrong) and was going to jog around the WTC but decided to go get a cup of coffee instead. It was also in this article The Hildebeast sez she couldn't reach dear Chelsea for two hours. Sure wish I could find that article. Can anybody help?
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