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.
Someone NEEDS to get these people together to get this story straight. First, she was 12 blocks away. Then, she was 2 blocks away. Now, she was jogging. Someone from New York please tell me how many people JOG close to the WTC? (including the X-42's /New York senator's daughter)
Oh, I forgot about the herpes.
Leni
I don't care?
As far as I am concerned, she and her mommy and daddy could move in with evil laden?
Another media lie...she has ALWAYS been no different from her two 'parents'. She's NOT nice, she's STUPID and the rest you can indentify yourselves.
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In my judgment the headline was by itself sufficient.
Anyway, the first weekend I was there, I left the hotel (sorry don't remember the name, but it was across the waterfront), with a Pepsi. By the time I got to the other side, the can was empty. It was a weekend, so there weren't many people around. But for the life of me, I couldn't find a trash can. I walked into one of the stores to get a newspaper, and asked if the cashier if she had a trash can, because I couldn't find one outside.
Much to my surprise, the cashier said there are no trash cans outside. I asked why. She said: "bombs". For the first time in my life, I was exposed to life dealing with terrorism. For Freepers/Lurkers that have never been over the Pond, it was an incredible experience on how everyday life carried on, while the ever present danger of a bomb going off was as unexpected as a rainy day in New Jersey in November.
In fact, there was a high rise building a few hundred yards down the street that was bombed a year or so earlier, that was being rebuilt. A number of buildings that surrounded it had all the windows blown out by the explosion. Yet life went on, the security was pretty tight down there, but definitely not something I was accustomed to here in the US.
Not anymore.
And where was the secret service at this time, that they couldn't get word out? Me thinks this is a fabrication.
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.
Did anyone entertain the idea that she NOT attend?
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