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...going to happen, no matter how big the Republican Convention bounce or how desperate the Democrats' need to entice jaded network anchors. Chelsea, who has attended only one State dinner, will ride the train to Chicago. She's no longer the vulnerable 12-year-old who walked into Madison Square Garden with her parents in 1992, when she was so protected that most people were surprised to discover the Clintons had a child. But at 16 she is still too young to be exposed to the Princess Di treatment--a Barbara Walters special, MTV, the cover of Seventeen--that might...
...press, for its part, has generally observed a nonaggression pact. Other than a nasty reference on Saturday Night Live and one on Rush Limbaugh's TV show, Chelsea has been left to lead a normal life. Even tabloids like the Weekly World News, which bannered Hillary's adoption of an alien baby, have resisted sending paparazzi to stalk the First Child...
...just this month Chelsea got a small taste of gotcha journalism. In the midst of a summer of building houses in Appalachia with her church group and taking ballet lessons, the Sidwell Friends senior went off with her mother the first week in August to tour Amherst, Brown, Harvard, Princeton, Wellesley and Yale. One evening they dined at the Spoleto Restaurant in Northampton, Massachusetts. Two glasses of wine were ordered. The pasta was barely digested before the local paper reported that the underage Chelsea had been drinking. For two days the Boston airwaves and papers buzzed with Chardonnaygate. The state...
...press behaved better when Chelsea accompanied her mother to South Asia in 1995--the first time most reporters got to see the First Daughter up close, having agreed not to ambush her. While many children of the highly placed are attention-mongering monsters or sullen recluses, Chelsea came across during grueling hours of travel as relaxed and friendly, informed without being a smarty-pants, gracious even when sitting cross-legged in a 100[degree] tent for an hour in India with bamboo weavers. She seemed to love her mother, of course, but also to like her, in a way that...
TIME: Senator Dole gets a lot of applause when he says the President sends Chelsea to private school but opposes vouchers to let you send your kids to private school...