Quote of the Day: Let Chelsea 'Have Her Day'

Heather Horn Jul 29, 2010
"Let her have her day. She's due. Chelsea has been a national public figure against her will since she was 12, and in all that time she has never embarrassed her family--or us. Before she went off to Columbia to study public health policy, she worked for a New York management consulting firm and a hedge fund where her colleagues unanimously (and off-the-recordly) reported that she was a stupendously hard worker. She recognized early on that when celebrity is thrust on you, the trick is to learn to do something besides being famous."

- Gail Collins in The New York Times on political children and Chelsea Clinton's wedding

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