Chapter Two

Chelsea, 1993.

Chelsea Clinton is the first adolescent in the White House since Amy Carter, who was 9 when her father was elected president. Unlike Amy Carter, whose four years in Washington were covered heavily by the press, Chelsea was shielded from the media by her parents in hopes that her childhood would be as normal as possible. The Clintons even went so far as to exclude her from their Christmas photograph. UPI reporter Helen Thomas said in February 1996, "We have not laid a glove on Chelsea." But others have.

Early in the Clinton Administration, Chelsea was compared in an unflattering light to Vice President Gore's daughters in a "Saturday Night Live" skit and called the "White House dog" by Rush Limbaugh. Later, in 1994-1995, Chelsea was the center of a minor media hoax: a bogus rock recording of "Chelsea Clinton" taking swipes at Tipper Gore, Boris Yeltsin and Paula Jones. The recording was written up by several news outlets and Paula Jones' lawyer even tried to get a copy of the tape. Predictably, it was dubbed "Chelseagate.".

Third Chapter of Biography.

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