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.
And I thought the six year rule on SS started with Clinton.
I read on this forum that Clinton AND Hillary have SS protection for life as do other ex-presidents and spouses. All presidents AFTER Clinton will have time limited protection.
If true, Hillary will have own personal guards to abuse for the rest of her natural life.
I saw her say that LIVE on Fox News the day she and her dad magically appeared downtown. I'm sure Fox has the film.
LOL, I bet he found out where the current one was when he was there.
I hope you're right. I'd hate to think the most corrupt Prez. in our history would be protected from his treason for a lifetime. But I thought I remembered him being the last to get lifetime service (Boy I hope my memory sucks...)
BTW, SHE does not get ANY SS protection; HE gets a detail and has to share. Barbara and George Bush "share" a detail, a small one. It's not OUR fault Bill and Hillary don't live together.
Chelsea's special order evidently ended when she left Stanford -- or at least it better have.......we NEED the SS here now, not following some bimbo around the world.
Also, Hillary's friends have BEGGED her to give up her agents in D.C. because the Senate has good protection, and they told her it makes her look aloof and snobbish. Of course, she won't......keeps the presses and the great unwashed masses away from her.
Oh, no! I hope they had enough self-respect not to accept *his* custom.
What kind of moron thinks anybody here cares what Chelsea does or does not do?
Even better, all movements are documented. This makes me even happier!
I still want to know if Clinton is going to buy that house in Ireland.
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