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Chelsea risks all for taste of the limelight
Tom Rhodes, New York
THE first sighting of the new Chelsea Clinton was three months ago during a
state visit to Washington by Morocco's King Mohammed VI. Accompanying her
father from the west wing of the White House, she strode confidently down the
red carpet and placed a hand on the back of Princess Lalla, gently guiding
the king's sister towards Madeleine Albright, the secretary of state.
It was the first time the 20-year-old Stanford University student had stood
in for her mother, Hillary, at an official function.
She displayed all the charm of a skilled hostess, mingling with officials and
discussing bilateral relations with the ease of a foreign policy veteran.
Chelsea clearly enjoyed the experience. After a series of public appearances
at her father's side, however, her prominent role as inseparable presidential
escort is beginning to prompt questions in Washington about the level of her
security clearance and access to confidential information.
"She's clearly a bright, well-adjusted young woman," said one Republican
consultant last week. "But she seems to be getting far more access than most
first daughters."
Chelsea has done much more than merely deliberate the burning issues of
American foreign policy: she has been present for every big decision the
president has made since June.
Last Wednesday, for example, she chatted amiably to Albright and Sandy
Berger, the national security adviser, as part of a small team accompanying
Clinton on a one-day visit to Cartagena to push America's $1.3 billion
anti-drugs package to Colombia.
The previous week she huddled with Berger and other top aides during the
presidential visit to Nigeria. Reports, strenuously denied by an embarrassed
White House, even had her playing an active role in American efforts to stop
fighting between the Tutsi-dominated government and Hutu rebels in Burundi.
During the long flight to Africa she was said to have helped craft her
father's speech to a joint session of the Nigerian assembly.
Only a month earlier, Israeli officials reportedly complained of impropriety
during the critical, top-secret Middle East peace talks at Camp David when
Chelsea was said to have monopolised dinner conversation with Ehud Barak, the
Israeli leader.
There is more to come. Chelsea is expected to represent her father at the
Olympic Games in Sydney and will probably accompany him on a trip to Vietnam
before the end of his presidency.
Since 1992, when America first encountered the gawky 12-year-old with wild
curls and unflattering braces, Chelsea has remained a visible but remote
figure. Appearing only in times of crisis - she acted as public glue between
her parents during the Monica Lewinsky affair - or to support her father's
campaigns for the presidency, her privacy has been zealously guarded.
The White House - which strenuously denies that Chelsea plays any part in
policy-making - says her decision to abandon university for a term to assist
her mother's campaign and take a front seat during the last days of her
father's tenure, came earlier this year. "She woke up one day and realised,
'I'm missing all this,' " said one aide last week.
It is thought to have coincided with another new resolve; her apparent
intention to follow in her father's footsteps to Oxford and study history and
politics as a Rhodes scholar next year.
In between forays into foreign affairs and her future academic career,
Chelsea is devoting her efforts to her mother's beleaguered Senate campaign
against Rick Lazio, her Republican opponent. Armed with a wardrobe of
severely tailored suits, pink nail varnish and scarlet lipstick, she is
already proving to be a formidable weapon in her mother's arsenal.
Democrats hope Chelsea, who is popular among white suburban housewives
otherwise unexcited by her mother's candidacy, will play a more prominent
role as the November election approaches.
"She's not going to overexpose herself and have criticism that her parents
are exploiting her," said Letitia Baldrige, a former White House social
secretary. "But her appearance can be terribly helpful to Hillary. It warms
her up in the public eye."
If Chelsea takes more than a supporting role in her mother's campaign, or
spends too much time taking notes in the Oval Office, she is likely to become
a fair target for criticism. Thus far, the most notable assault against the
first daughter has been a report that Chelsea, once a health-conscious ballet
fanatic, was seen smoking a cigarette in a Washington restaurant.
"Anybody who attacks Chelsea is a fool," said Dane Strother, a Democratic
political consultant. "It's a fundamental law: you don't attack someone's
children, however old they are."
As students of American politics are only too aware, however, the Clintons
have broken every rule in the book; their opponents may decide to do the
same.
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