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."
Amazing. The whole time I was watching events unfold on the morning of Sept. 11, I was praying for the people in the collapsing buildings. Oh well, we all have different priorities.(mountaineer)
You are correct, amazing. If there isn't a scientific study saying that "arrogance or hubris" is or is not genetic, those actions by Chelsea should start one.
What the heck kind of English is this? Innocences? This girl is double-digit, IMHO.
She comes across as spoiled & politically obsessed....but what else would one expect considering her genes & environment....I'll add this...
The rotten apple doesn't fall far from the tree!
I pray for BUSH & for the Truth daily!
We do not havae a plan for that, no matter how much we are disgusted... They love this crap, will pay for it, will slaver over it, and there isn't a lot we can do about it.
That, to me, is more disgusting than her babble.
Clinton signed an executive order extending secret service protection for his daughter for 6 months (this according to Barbara Olson's new book on the Clintons). That would have ended in June of this year.
Just a few sentences and the word "I" is already mentioned 6 times. Looks like she takes after her father ... or her mother ... or both.
The day is still young ...
Isn't Union Square more like 4 miles away from the WTC? At any rate, it definitely was not one of the areas closed, even temporarily, due to the WTC collapse.
Right now Bill and Hillary are just "taking the training wheels off" to let her misstate, obfuscate and eventually perjure on her own. It is touching watching this little demonic creature leave the nest and test out her own unsteady abilities to poison whatever good remains in America,
(Fleeing the attack on the Twin Towers worrying about Bush's tax cut? These despicable whores never cease to amaze.)
I'm not sure. (I am sure! But not sure goes so well with nature and nurture, I just HAD to say it.) I know, I know, my writing needs structure.
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