She's kept a low political profile as a Stanford student, but with Mom fighting for a U.S. Senate seat and Dad finishing his last months in office, senior Chelsea Clinton couldn't resist: she's stopping out fall quarter to support Hillary Clinton's campaign and to spend time with the president in Washington. "I love Stanford, I adore it, it's a fabulous place," she said at one of her first campaign appearances on Long Island. "But my family is here."
News of the decision sent a ripple through the national media, which has taken a low-key approach to covering the first daughter while she pursues a degree in history. Time magazine described her as a crowd-pleasing campaigner and "the most potent familial ornament in American politics since Jackie Kennedy."
The Clintons say they're looking forward to spending some time with their daughter, who plans to return to campus in January and graduate in June (she took extra classes as a junior and should have plenty of credits). "She wants to help her mother," the president said at a Rhode Island fund-raiser in July. "And she wants to keep company with her father, which is always a surprising thing when your children grow up and they want to spend time with you."
