Bob Nash, a friend since the 1970s and President Bill Clinton’s White House personnel director, sat on the very front row, slapping backs and trading hugs.
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She has held her life close to her vest, only revealing small snippets over the years. “She’s been there for us, even if we haven’t always noticed”, he said.
Encouraging the country to see Hillary Clinton as he does was something else altogether. “Even though I like Bill Clinton as a president, there was a lot of negativity with Bill, especially with NAFTA and that, that is hung around Hillary as well”, Lowe said.
“O$3 ne of our core values in this country is that we are the land of equal opportunity, but when equal hasn’t yet included gender, there is a fundamental challenge there that, I believe, having our first woman president- whenever that is – will help resolve”, Chelsea told ELLE magazine past year.
“When she tries to be too dramatic it doesn’t ring true, ” says David Frank, a rhetoric professor at the University of OR who’s studied presidential speeches.
But for papers stuck without a good, relevant photo of Clinton at deadline, there were other options besides simply running a picture of her husband. She’ll lean heavily on the “stronger together” campaign theme, invoking her 1996 book “It Takes a Village”, her campaign said.
Instead, Bill Clinton cast himself as a passenger in his wife’s life, reshaping the story of much of their decades in politics.
Chelsea Clinton then introduced Ms. Hillary Clinton, the mother.
Tonight, Hillary Rodham Clinton will accept the nomination of the Democratic Party as the first woman to ever win the nomination from a major political party. “It’s great to see the Clinton tradition continue and it’s great to finally cross the threshhold for women”, she said. Her first foray got off to a rocky start: Stumping for her mother in New Hampshire, she mischaracterized Bernie Sanders’ health care plan, saying he wanted to “dismantle Obamacare, dismantle the CHIP program, dismantle Medicare, and dismantle private insurance”.
Chelsea was born in Little Rock when her father was governor of Arkansas and named for the Joni Mitchell song, Chelsea Morning. At Stanford University, she toyed with the idea of studying medicine but eventually majored in history. She is married to Mezvinsky, the son of former Iowa Rep. Edward Mezvinsky and Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky, a former member of Congress from Pennsylvania. She worked at McKinsey & Co. and later Avenue Capital Group, a hedge fund management firm.
In a move that appeared calculated to quash Republican attacks that Hillary will be a weak president because of her weak marriage to a philandering husband, Clinton spent the first 15 minutes on vignettes of each time he asked Hillary to marry him.
After spending time as a management consultant and as a correspondent for NBC, Chelsea Clinton now works for the Clinton Foundation and recently wrote a book for middle-school aged kids. He told ABC News Clinton has “answered hundreds if not thousands of questions from reporters in one-on-one interviews”.
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Emphasizing the historic nature of her address is particularly important as she seeks to reach moderate Republican women who have been skeptical of her but are taking a second look in light of Trump’s rhetoric on women and other policy matters.
