Chelsea Clinton says she's
no longer totally against following in the footsteps of her parents.
"Before my mom's campaign I would have said no. Not because it was
something I had thought a lot about but because people have been asking
me that my whole life," Clinton, speaking of her mother's unsuccessful
2008 presidential bid, said in an interview for the September issue of
Vogue. [snip] "If there were to be a point where it was something I felt
called to do and I didn't think there was someone who was sufficiently
committed to building a healthier, more just, more equitable, more
productive world? Then that would be a question I'd have to ask and
answer."
In the
Vogue interview, Chelsea credits her friendships with gay men as
helping change her father's stance on same-sex marriage.
One
night, over dinner at Cheddar’s, Chelsea mentions that a lot of her
male friends are gay. “It was something that I wasn’t even aware of
until Marc pointed it out,” she says. Observing the strength of those
friendships—many of Chelsea’s friends spend every Thanksgiving with the
Clintons at Chappaqua—was one of the key factors in changing Bill
Clinton’s position on gay marriage. “Those conversations often start in
families and then billow out into the community. Change is hard. And I
was really proud of my dad.”
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Chelsea Clinton says she's no longer totally against following in the footsteps of her parents.
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