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...live-and-let-live attitude toward the famous is one reason Martha's Vineyard won out over a number of other possibilities, like Jackson Hole, Wyoming (too isolated); Florida, where Hillary's brother Hugh lives (too hot); California (too shallow, although Hillary and Chelsea vacationed in Santa Barbara for a few days on the way back from the Tokyo summit); and Telluride, Colorado (too small). Not that the decision came easily, or could have been carried out if seven-day-advance-purchase airline tickets were a factor. Unlike most Presidents, Clinton is a man without a country house -- no + Kennebunkport...
...left on the cutting-room floor. After that, friends say, she adopted the attitude that the less of her that is known, the less there is for the press to pick apart. She is jealous of her husband's privacy as well, complaining that he can't go watch Chelsea's softball games because he would be dogged by the press. "They leave Al and Tipper alone. I mean, Al and Tipper go to all their kids' games. And I think Bill deserves to have some of that same space and have some normal family life...
...Hillary wants to preserve some part of the prosaic quality of life so Chelsea doesn't grow up believing food just magically materializes on her plate. They went to the grocery store together, one day after Hillary picked up Chelsea from school, to get peanut butter and cereal, only to find that they had insufficient cash and no checkbook. Lately the First Mom has been helping her daughter make the perilous journey from age 12 to 13 in a new city without the close-knit extended family and friends of Little Rock. The elder Rodhams had stayed in the Governor...
While Hillary generally shrugs off criticism about herself, the treatment of Chelsea is another matter. Hillary took out after Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels and his writers for "having nothing better to do than be mean and cruel to a young girl," after they ran a skit making fun of her daughter...
Hillary was at lunch in the White House mess in March when Carolyn Huber, the former administrator of the Governor's mansion, walked in. When Huber bent over and whispered in her ear, Hillary's face turned white. That afternoon she and Chelsea left for St. Vincent Infirmary in Little Rock, and the President arrived two days later. Hillary made it to her father's bedside in time to say goodbye. "When we got there, for the first couple of days," she recalls, "he knew we were there, and it was wonderful." She returned to Washington after 16 days, just...