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."
Convince me that the spawn of Hillary is not getting prepped for future "public" service.
1.)It demonstrates throughout the entire article Hillary's self-centeredness and famous tin ear for politics.
2.) IT HASN'T BEEN EDITED. If Chelsea had written this, someone would have kindly corrected the awkward phrases. That is what editors are for. But HILLARY wrote it, and no one dares change a jot or tittle of anything the Queen pens. They are as engraved on stone.
So, not only is this stupid and insulting, but I am sadly led to conclude that Chelsea didn't even write it. They are, of course, liars.
I will be forwarding this little article to some Democrats I still speak to....wonder if they will see the uglt puke for hat she is....a spoiled lying BRAT!
I think that bloody hillary is supposed to be freeped tonight like bloody bill was last night.
ROFLMAO! Even less by now! LOL
Geez, and I thought the other stuff I read was funny! This made me choke on my left over halloween candy! LOL!
And guess who has the veto pen, POOPY CORN?
If Chelsea couldn't get long-distance on the apartment phone, it was useless to try from the street. And not much of an emergency anyway, if she'd already reached her mom's assistant. Surely Hillary's office has caller ID and they could see she was calling from the place she'd been staying. Daughter safe. Try again later.
I wouldn't mind Chelsea saying she was "irresistably drawn" toward the scene (though it's the last thing I would have done), but just don't insult my intelligence by claiming to be looking for a phone that worked. It's nonsense.
Nah. This "article" just proves that she's the spawn of the Sink Emperor. They just don't care how ridiculous they look as long as they can hog the media spotlight.
I guess Mother Nature knew what a bitch and sleaze she turned out to be, so gave her Webb Hubbell's profile. Hehehehe.
I can't believe her parents REALLY allowed her to write this herself. You would think a ghost writer was needed! Her ignorance is on display.
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