Ask the Scholar

{
    "localId": "26082039",
    "label": "Mother Teresa Column [9/18/1997]",
    "core": "doc",
    "dtoType": "document",
    "citationUrl": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/26082039"
}

{
    "id": "26082039",
    "sourceUrl": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/26082039",
    "contentType": "document",
    "title": "Mother Teresa Column [9/18/1997]",
    "citationUrl": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/26082039",
    "collections": [
        "Records of the First Lady's Office (Clinton Administration)",
        "Michael O'Mary's Files"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/39/820/26082039/content/presidential-libraries/clinton/foia/2013-1078-S/2013-1078-S-JPG/Box_005/42-t-7422548-20131078S-005-004-2015/42_t_7422548_20131078S_005_004_2015_Page_001.JPG",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/39/820/26082039/content/presidential-libraries/clinton/foia/2013-1078-S/2013-1078-S-JPG/Box_005/42-t-7422548-20131078S-005-004-2015/42_t_7422548_20131078S_005_004_2015_Page_001.JPG",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/39/820/26082039/content/presidential-libraries/clinton/foia/2013-1078-S/2013-1078-S-JPG/Box_005/42-t-7422548-20131078S-005-004-2015/42_t_7422548_20131078S_005_004_2015_Page_001.JPG",
    "imageCount": 49,
    "hasImages": true,
    "source": "import",
    "hasTranscription": false
}

{
    "url": "https://catalog.archives.gov/id/26082039",
    "naId": 26082039,
    "levelOfDescription": "fileUnit",
    "otherTitles": [
        "42-t-7422548-20131078S-005-004-2015"
    ],
    "recordType": "description",
    "ocrSource": "nara-archive"
}

{
    "seq": 49,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "document",
    "url": "https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/39/820/26082039/content/presidential-libraries/clinton/foia/2013-1078-S/2013-1078-S-PDF/Box_005/42-t-7422548-20131078S-005-004-2015.pdf",
    "mediaId": "554c9654e59054c5",
    "ocrText": "02/16/95\n15:00\nFELUE PIHN IU KER\nit ft its it - 4566244\nNO.328 P002\nF\nFELDESMAN, TUCKER, LEIFER. FIDELL & BANK\nMEMORANDUM\nTO:\nMelanne Verveer\nFROM:\nMarna Tucker\nCapy 51 This\nDeborah Pollock\nRE:\nMissionaries of Charity Project\nre-lapy prayer\nDATE:\nFebruary 16, 1995\nb'fast\nThis memorandum will update you on the status of the project.\nWe have just spoken to Sandy McMurtrie who has informed us of a\nchange in the Sisters' plans.\nAs you know, the architects were planning to conduct a site\nvisit this week at the house on Wheeler Road, S.E. and begin any\nnecessary renovations as soon as possible. Mrs. McMurtrie has now\ninformed us that Mother Teresa has decided not to use the house on\nWheeler Road for this project, but instead to purchase a house in\na different neighborhood. Mother Teresa has written a letter to\nMrs. Clinton explaining this change of plans. Mrs. McMurtrie told\nus that she will call you to facilitate the delivery of Mother\nTeresa's letter to the First Lady.\nSister Sylvia and Mrs. McMurtrie are now actively looking for\na house to purchase for the temporary home. The architects will be\ninvolved in the decision-making process to help ensure that the new\nhouse will require few, if any, renovations. Once the house has\nbeen purchased, we will continue to work with the District of\nColumbia and the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs in\norder to secure any required licenses or permits.\n+20m\nMISSIONARIES\n54A A.J.C. Bose Road, Calcutta 700 016, India\n7 February 1995\nOF CHARITY\n\"As long as you did it to one of these My least brethren. You did it to Me\"\nMrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton\nThe White House\nWashington\nDear Mrs. Clinton,\nI was very happy to receive your letter of 25 January. I am happy\nto hear from you about all that you have been doing to help us to\nfind a home in America SO that we can stop abortion by adoption.\nI have talked to Sr. Priscilla and Sandy McMurtrie, and I think\nthat instead of using our Wheeler Road home, it would be better to\nfind a new house. We need only a simple home but it should be in\na neighbourhood that is safe, where girls of any background,\nreligion or creed, will feel comfortable.\nSandy will be getting in touch with you. She and Sr. Sylvia will\nbegin looking for a suitable place as soon as possible. I have\nalso written to Cardinal Hickey who is very happy to help us to\nbegin this work. With your kind help and the help of your lawyers,\nI hope, God willing, to be able to open a house by the beginning\nof June.\nBy having this home, we will help women not to make the mistake of\ndestroying life; give babies the chance to live and to know what\nit is to love and to be loved; bring joy into the lives of married\ncouples who wish to share their love with a child by adoption.\nThank you for all you are doing for God's little ones - the unborn -\nthrough this beautiful work.\nIf you are able to come to Calcutta on your trip to India in March,\nI will be very happy to meet with you and take you to our homes for\nthe children and the sick and the dying.\nMy gratitude to you and your husband is my prayer that you may\nexperience more and more the joy and peace in serving God's Poor\nthrough love and compassion.\nLet us pray.\nGod blass you\nlee Teresa me\n3420429\nF:01\n+LDM\nLiz\nMISSIONARIES\nAs long as YOU did K 10 one or these My least brother You did 2 to Me'\n54A A.J.C. Bose Rd., Calcutta 700016\n21 March 1995\nOF CHARITY\nMrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton\nThe White House\nWashington\nDear Mrs. Clinton,\nMother Teresa had written to you in a letter\ndated February 7 this year that she looked\nforward to meeting you in India in March.\nI am sure, nowever, that you have received\nher message conveyed by your Consul-General\nin Calcutta that she had to leave for Viet-\nnam on March 18. Mother was very sorry\nthat she could not change the dates of her\nVietnam visit SD that she could be back in\nIndia in time to welcome you at our Home\nin Delhi.\nSince Mother will not be here, she has asked\nme to me-t with you in Dolhi. It-will be a\ngreat pleasure for me to see you once again\nand to be able to welcome you to our Child-\nren's Home.\nMay God be with you on your forthcoming\ntrip. I look forward to seeing you in Delhi.\nGod bless you.\nSe. th. Primilla,m.\nSr. N. Priscilla, M.C.\nRegistered Charity S 3509 of 1958-1959\nMISSIONARIES\nOF\nCHARITY\n\"As long as you did it to one of these My least brethren. You did it to Me\"\n54-A A.J.C. Bose Road\nCalcutta, 700016 India\nTel# 91-33-2447115\nLDM+\nFebruary 5th, 1994\nDear President and Mrs. Clinton,\nLet us thank God for the beautiful prayer meeting in\nWashington, and pray that God's Blessings be with you as you carry the\nresponsibility of being President and First Lady. I was very happy to meet\nyou, and from the time of our meeting I have been praying for you both.\nAs per our conversation regarding saving unborn children from\nabortion through adoption I was very struck by your concern and readiness\nto help by offering a house. I am very happy to accept your offer of help in\nthis work, and I pray that together we do something beautiful for God.\nTo begin, I would be very grateful if you would kindly help me\nto do whatever is necessary to be officially registered with your government\nso that we may offer children in adoption according to the rules of this\ncountry.\nI have given over three thousand children in adoption\nthroughout the world, and we always go through the courts and legal system\nof that country, so that the child is fully protected. We never involve or\naccept money in our adoptions, and for this and other reasons, we don't mix\nus with other adoption agencies.\nI am ready to begin this work immediately and I look forward\nto hearing from you. I would be very grateful if you would kindly reply to\nme directly in Calcutta.\nMy gratitude to you is my prayer for you and your family, for\nthe work you are doing and the people you serve. Keep the joy of loving God\nin your heart and share this joy with all you meet, especially each other.\ngod bless you\nlee Teresa me\nMISSIONARIES\nOF\nCHARITY\n\"As long as you did it to one of these My least brethren. You did it to Me\"\nLDue.\nNew york\n7±3e6'94\nDear this. Clinton,\nletter to my letter to\nI am attaching this\nyou and Her. Clinton to\nsay that 9 have asked\nSaudy me Maurtrie and\nher Father Mr. Dwayne\nAndreas of Archer Daniels\nMidlaud Co. to speak with\nyou regarding the adop-\ntion project. I know\nthem very well and they\nhave been helping me\nin my work for a long\ntime.\nI often pray for you\nboth. Keep the joy\nol loving lie your\nhearts and share\nthis joy with all you\nmeet especially\nyour Jaurily\nHundly pray for our\nSociety, Our Poor\nand for me.\nGod bless you\nlee Teresa me\nWHATEVER YOU DID UNTO ONE OF THE LEAST, YOU DID UNTO ME\nMother Teresa of Calcutta\n-f\nOn the last day, Jesus will say to those on His right hand, \"Come, enter the Kingdom. For I was\nhungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was sick and you visited me.\" Then\nJesus will turn to those on His left hand and say, \"Depart from me because I was hungry and you did not\nfeed me, I was thirsty and you did not give me to drink, I was sick and you did not visit me.\" These will ask\nHim, \"When did we see You hungry, or thirsty or sick and did not come to Your help?\" And Jesus will\nanswer them, \"Whatever you neglected to do unto one of the least of these, you neglected to do unto Me!\"\nAs we have gathered here to pray together, I think it will be beautiful if we begin with a prayer that\nexpresses very well what Jesus wants us to do for the least. St. Francis of Assisi understood very well these\nwords of Jesus and His life is very well expressed by a prayer. And this prayer, which we say every day after\nHoly Communion, always surprises me very much, because it is very fitting for each one of us. And I always\nwonder whether 800 years ago when St. Francis lived, they had the same difficulties that we have today.\nI think that some of you already have this prayer of peace - 80 we will pray it together.\nLet us thank God for the opportunity He has given us today to have come here to pray together.\nWe have come here especially to pray for peace, joy and love. We are reminded that Jesus came to bring\nthe good news to the poor. He had told us what is that good news when He said: \"My peace I leave with\nyou, My peace I give unto you.\" He came not to give the peace of the world which is only that we don't\nbother each other. He came to give the peace of heart which comes from loving from doing good to others.\nAnd God loved the world so much that He gave His son - it was a giving. God gave His son to the\nVirgin Mary, and what did she do with Him? As soon as Jesus came into Mary's life, immediately she went\nin haste to give that good news. And as she came into the house of her cousin, Elizabeth, Scripture tells\nus that the unborn child - the child in the womb of Elizabeth - leapt with joy. While still in the womb of\nMary - Jesus brought peace to John the Baptist who leapt for joy in the womb of Elizabeth.\nAnd as if that were not enough, as if it were not enough that God the Son should become one of us\nand bring peace and joy while still in the womb of Mary, Jesus also died on the Cross to show that greater\nlove. He died for you and for me, and for that leper and for that man- dying of hunger and that naked\nperson lying in the street, not only of Calcutta, but of Africa, and everywhere. Our Sisters serve these poor\npeople in 105 countries throughout the world. Jesus insisted that we love one another as He loves each one\nof us. Jesus gave His life to love us and He tells us that we also have to give whatever it takes to do good\nto one another. And in the Gospel Jesus says very clearly: \"Love as I have loved you.\"\nJesus died on the Cross because that is what it took for Him to do good to us - to save us from our\nselfishness in sin. He gave up everything to do the Father's will - to show us that we too must be willing\nto give up everything to do God's will - to love one another as He loves each of us. If we are not willing to\ngive whatever it takes to do good to one another, sin is still in us. That is why we too must give to each\nother until it hurts.\nIt is not enough for us to say: \"I love God,\" but I also have to love my neighbor. St. John says that\nyou are a liar if you say you love God and you don't love your neighbor. How can you love God whom you\ndo not see, if you do not love your neighbor whom you see, whom you touch, with whom you live? And so\nit is very important for us to realize that love, to be true, has to hurt. I must be willing to give whatever\nit takes not to harm other people and, in fact, to do good to them. This requires that I be willing to give\nuntil it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me.\nIt hurt Jesus to love us. We have been created in His image for greater things, to love and to be\nloved. We must \"put on Christ\" as Scripture tells us. And so, we have been created to love as He love us.\nJesus makes Himself the hungry one, the naked one, the homeless one, the unwanted one, and He says,\n\"You did it to Me.\" On the last day He will say to those on His right, \"whatever you did to the least of these,\nyou did to Me, and He will also say to those on His left, whatever you neglected to do for the least of these,\nyou neglected to do it for Me.\"\ndet us provy god bless you\nCel Teresa me\nWhen He was dying on the Cross, Jesus said, \"I thirst.\" Jesus is thirsting for our love, and this is the\nthirst of everyone, poor and rich alike. We all thirst for the love of others, that they go out of their way to\navoid harming us and to do good to us. This is the meaning of true love, to give until it hurts.\nI can never forget the experience I had in visiting a home where they kept all these old parents of\nsons and daughters who had just put them into an institution and forgotten them - maybe. I saw that in\nthat home these old people had everything - good food, comfortable place, television, everything, but\neveryone was looking toward the door. And I did not see a single one with a smile on the face. I turned to\nSister and I asked: \"Why do these people who have every comfort here, why are they all looking toward the\ndoor? Why are they not smiling?\"\nI am so used to seeing the smiles on our people, even the dying ones smile. And Sister said: \"This\nis the way it is nearly every day. They are expecting, they are hoping that a son or daughter will come to\nvisit them. They are hurt because they are forgotten.\" And see, this neglect to love brings spiritual poverty.\nMaybe in our own family we have somebody who is feeling lonely, who is feeling sick, who is feeling worried.\nAre we there? Are we willing to give until it hurts in order to be with our families, or do we put our own\ninterests first? These are the questions we must ask ourselves, especially as we begin this year of the\nfamily. We must remember that love begins at home and we must also remember that 'the future of\nhumanity passes through the family.'\nI was surprised in the West to see SO many young boys and girls given to drugs. And I tried to find\nout why. Why is it like that, when those in the West have 80 many more things than those in the East?\nAnd the answer was: 'Because there is no one in the family to receive them.' Our children depend on us\nfor everything their health, their nutrition, their security, their coming to know and love God. For all of\nthis, they look to us with trust, hope and expectation. But often father and mother are 80 busy they have\nno time for their children, or perhaps they are not even married or have given up on their marriage. So\nthe children go to the streets and get involved in drugs or other things. We are talking of love of the child,\nwhich is where love and peace must begin. These are the things that break peace.\nBut I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child,\na direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can\nkill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman\nnot to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love and we remind ourselves that love\nmeans to be willing to give until it hurts. Jesus gave even His life to love us. So, the mother who is\nthinking of abortion, should be helped to love, that is, to give until it hurts her plans, or her free time, to\nrespect the life of her child. The father of that child, whoever he is, must also give until it hurts.\nBy abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems.\nAnd, by abortion, the father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he\nhas brought into the world. That father is likely to put other women into the same trouble. So abortion\njust leads to more abortion. Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use\nany violence to get what they want. This is why the greatest destroyer of love and peace is abortion.\nMany people are very, very concerned with the children of India, with the children of Africa where\nquite a few die of hunger, and so on. Many people are also concerned about all the violence in this great\ncountry of the United States. These concerns are very good. But often these same people are not\nconcerned with the millions who are being killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this\nis what is the greatest destroyer of peace today . abortion which brings people to such blindness.\nAnd for this I appeal in India and I appeal everywhere - \"Let us bring the child back.\" The child is\nGod's gift to the family. Each child is created in the special image and likeness of God for greater things\nto love and to be loved. In this year of the family we must bring the child back to the center of our care\nand concern. This is the only way that our world can survive because our children are the only hope for\nthe future. As older people are called to God, only their children are can take their places.\n2\nBut what does God say to us? He says: \"Even if a mother could forget her child, I will not forget you.\nI have carved you in the palm of my hand.\" We are carved in the palm of His hand; that unborn child has\nbeen carved in the hand of God from conception and is called by God to love and to be loved, not only now\nin this life, but forever. God can never forget us.\nI will tell you something beautiful. We are fighting abortion by adoption - by care of the mother and\nadoption for her baby. We have saved thousands of lives. We have sent word to the clinics, to the hospitals\nand police stations: \"Please don't destroy the child; we will take the child.\" So we always have someone tell\nthe mothers in trouble: \"Come, we will take care of you, we will get a home for your child.\" And we have\na tremendous demand from couples who cannot have a child - but I never give a child to a couple who have\ndone something not to have a child. Jesus said, \"Anyone who receives a child in my name, receives me.\"\nBy adopting a child, these couples receive Jesus but, by aborting a child, a couple refuses to receive Jesus.\nPlease don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any\nchild who would be aborted and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child and be loved\nby the child. From our children's home in Calcutta alone, we have saved over 3000 children from abortion.\nThese children have brought such love and joy to their adopting parents and have grown up so full of love\nand joy.\nI know that couples have to plan their family and for that there is natural family planning. The way\nto plan the family is natural family planning, not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life,\nthrough contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self. This turns the attention to self and\nso it destroys the gift of love in him or her. In loving, the husband and wife must turn the attention to each\nother as happens in natural family planning, and not to self, as happens in contraception. Once that living\nlove is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows very easily.\nI also know that there are great problems in the world - that many spouses do not love each other\nenough to practice natural family planning. We cannot solve all the problems in the world, but let us never\nbring in the worst problem of all, and that is to destroy love. And this is what happens when we tell people\nto practice contraception and abortion.\nThe poor are very great people. They can teach us so many beautiful-things. Once one of them came\nto thank us for teaching her natural family planning and said: \"You people who have practiced chastity, you\nare the best people to teach us natural family planning because it is nothing more than self-control out of\nlove for each other.\" And what this poor person said is very true. These poor people maybe have nothing\nto eat, maybe they have not a home to live in, but they can still be great people when they are spiritually\nrich.\nWhen I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread. But a\nperson who is shut out, who feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person who has been thrown out of\nsociety - that spiritual poverty is much harder to overcome. And abortion, which often follows from\ncontraception, brings a people to be spiritually poor, and that is the worst poverty and the most difficult to\novercome.\nThose who are materially poor can be very wonderful people. One evening we went out and we\npicked up four people from the street. And one of them was in a most terrible condition. I told the Sisters:\n\"You take care of the other three; I will take care of the one who looks worse.\" So I did for her all that my\nlove can do. I put her in bed, and there was such a beautiful smile on her face. She took hold of my hand,\nas she said one word only: \"thank you\" - and she died.\nI could not help but examine my conscience before her. And I asked: \"What would I say if I were\nin her place?\" And my answer was very simple. I would have tried to draw a little attention to myself. I\nwould have said: \"I am hungry, I am dying, I am cold, I am in pain,\" or something. But she gave me much\nmore she gave me her grateful love. And she died with a smile on her face. Then there was the man we\n3\npicked up from the drain, half eaten by worms and, after we had brought him to the home, he only said,\n\"I have lived like an animal in the street, but I am going to die as an angel, loved and cared for.\" Then, after\nwe had removed all the worms from his body, all he said, with a big smile, was: \"Sister, I am going home\nto God\" -and he died. It was 80 wonderful to see the greatness of that man who could speak like that\nwithout blaming anybody, without comparing anything. Like and angel - this is the greatness of people who\nare spiritually rich even when they are materially poor.\nWe are not social workers. We may be doing social work in the eyes of some people, but we must\nbe contemplatives in the heart of the world. For we must bring that presence of God into your family, for\nthe family that prays together, stays together. There is 80 much hatred, 80 much misery, and we with our\nprayer, with our sacrifice, are beginning at home. Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but\nhow much love we put into what we do.\nIf we are contemplatives in the heart of the world with all its problems, these problems can never\ndiscourage us. We must always remember what God tells us in Scripture: \"Even if a mother could forget\nthe child in her womb something impossible, but even if she could forget - I will never forget you.\nAnd SO here I am talking with you. I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first.\nAnd begin love there. Ben that good news to your own people first. And find out about your next-door\nneighbors. Do you know who they are?\nI had the most extraordinary experience of love of neighbor with a Hindu family. A gentleman came\nto our house and said: \"Mother Teresa, there is a family who have not eaten for so long. Do something.\"\nSo I took some rice and went there immediately. And I saw the children their eyes shining with hunger.\nI don't know if you have every seen hunger. But I have seen it very often. And the mother of the family\ntook the rice I gave her and went out. When she came back, I asked her: \"Where did you go? What did\nyou do?\" And she gave me a very simple answer: \"They are hungry also.\" What struck me was that she\nknew and who are they? A Muslim family and she knew. I didn't bring any more rice that evening\nbecause I wanted them, Hindus and Muslims, to enjoy the joy of sharing.\nBut there were those children, radiating joy, sharing the joy and peace with their mother because\nshe had the love to give until it hurts. And you see this is where love begins - at home in the family.\nSo, as the example of this family shows, God will never forget us and there is something you and I\ncan always do. We can keep the joy of loving Jesus in our hearts, and share that joy with all we come in\ncontact with. Let us make that one point - that no child will be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, or killed\nand thrown away. And give until it hurts with a smile.\nBecause I talk so much of giving with a smile, once a professor from the United States asked me:\n\"Are you married?\" And I said: \"Yes, and I find it sometimes very difficult to smile at my spouse, Jesus,\nbecause He can be very demanding - sometimes.\" This is really something true. And there is where love\ncomes in when it is demanding, and yet we can give it with joy.\nOne of the most demanding things for me is travelling everywhere - and with publicity. I have said\nto Jesus that if I don't go to heaven for anything else, I will be going to heaven for all the travelling with\nall the publicity, because it has purified me and sacrificed me and made me really ready to go to heaven.\nIf we remember that God loves us, and that we can love others as He loves us, then America can\nbecome a sign of peace for the world. From here, a sign of care for the weakest of the weak the unborn\nchild - must go out to the world. If you become a burning light of justice and peace in the world, then really\nyou will be true to what the founders of this country stood for. God bless you!\n####\n4\n+LDM\nMISSIONARIES\n54A A.J.C. Bose Road, Calcutta 700 016\n5 January 1996\nOF\nCHARITY\n\"As long as you did it to one of these My least brethren. You did it to Me\"\nMrs. Hillary Clinton\nThe White House\n1600 Pennyslvania Ave., N.W.\nWashington, D.C. 20500\nDear Mrs. Clinton,\nI am writing to you today about something that I have heard\nregarding \"partial-birth abortion\". I understand that it is\na way of killing a child before he is born by stabbing and\ncrushing his head.\nI know that you have heard me say before that abortion is the\ngreatest destrover of peace in the world today. If a mother can\nallow her own child to be killed in this way, really, what is\nleft to ston us from killing each other? How can we teach our\nchildren to butld a world of neace and love, free of violence,\nmurder and war if WA keen on allowing children to De killed in\ntheir own mothers' wombs - which should he the safest place in\nthe world for a child.\nWe have just celebrated Christmas, the birth of Jesus, noor and\nsimple, totally dependent on His human mother. Each life is a\nprecious gift of God entrusted to the parents, but in a special\nway to the mother. Where would you or I be if our own mothers\nhad decided they didn't want us?\nI am very grateful to you, Mrs. Clinton, for all the kind help\nyou gave us in opening the Home for Children in Washington, D.C.\nAnd I know that you have a deep love for children and the poor.\nI beg you to make sure that the new law will protect the lives\nof innocent children. You and your husband are heading the\ngreatest nation in the world. The world looks to you for direction.\nIt is in your hands to build a world of love and compassion.\nLet us make a strong resolution in this new year that has just\nbegun that we will make every child feel wanted and loved. Jesus\nhas said, \"Whatever you do to the least of my little ones, you\ndo it to Me.\" Whatever we do to each child - unborn and born -\nwe do it to Ilim.\nLet us pray\nGod bless you\nbe Teresa HC\nno usponsesent\nThe fruit of SILENCE is Prayer\nThe fault of PRAYER is Faith\nThe fruit of FAITH is Love\nTheffruit of LOVE is Service\nThe ruit of SERVICE is Peace\nMother Teresa\nApril 26, 1995.\nDear Hrs. Clinton\nGod love you for the love you\ngive and the joy you have shared by\nyour visit to our Home in Delhi,\nalongwith your generous and thought-\nful gift. I am so sorry not to have\nbeen able to meet you and hope that\nyou will visit Calcutta soon.\nThe Poor are beautiful people,\nthey are God's gift to us - drawing\nus all together to bring His Peace &\nLove in our world today.\nMy deep gratitude to you, is my\nprayer for you.\nLet us pray\nGod bless you\nlee Teresa ma a\n=\nS- Mother Theresa\nvia pauch\nTHE WHITE HOUSE\nSeptember 30, 1996\nMother Teresa\nMissionaries of Charity\n54A A.J.C. Bose Road\nCalcutta, India 700 016\nDear Mother Teresa:\nI have watched and read with concern reports of your\nhospitalization and recent fall. I am hopeful that your health\nwill continue to improve because, as you have said, you've\n\"got a lot of work to do.\" As always, my thoughts and\nprayers are with you and with the Missionaries of Charity.\nWith love and fellowship, I remain\nSincerely yours,\nHillary Hillary Rodham Clinton\n20 Melanue\nCom Can\nMISSIONARIES\nMISSIONARIES OF CHARITY\n(Registered Charity No. 26:578)\n54A A.J.C. Bose Road\nOF CHARITY\nCalcutta. 700016 INDIA\nJanuary 10, 1995\nDear President and Mrs. Clinton,\nThank you for the card which brought\nme your loving greetings for Christmas and\nthe New Year.\nI think of you both often and remember\nyou daily in my prayers. I trust that the\nLord will give you the light and strength to\ndo His will as you lead the people of America.\nI do hope that the plans for the\nChildren's Home which Mrs. Clinton is helping\nme with are progressing.\nKeep the joy of loving in your hearts\nand share that joy with all. I wish you\nboth a Happy and Holy New Year of 1995.\nLet us pray.\nGod bless you,\nthe Feresa me\nCC: Milanne\n2817 Woodland Drive; N.W.\nWashington, D.C. 20008\n(703) 522-0266\ni PAM JUN 2\n4-28-94\nlear Hillary -\nThis note brings my best wither -\nand as always out prayers for\nyou and your family\nEnclosed is a picture signed\nMother Teresa sends love\nin Calcutla 2 weeks ago-her\nto you !!\nAlso enclosed is a letter\nto you and the Provident\nPlease lot me know if I\nCan ever help 11 Carry Some of\nyour load\nFrom Dons Coe\nAlways Your they friend\nMISSIONARIES\nOF CHARITY\n\"As long as you did it to one of these My least brethren. You did it to Me\"\nLDM.\nPAM JUN 20.4\nCalcutta, 14-5-94-\n:\nDear President and Mrs. Clinton\nOn my return from Victuam where I have\nopened two Centers for handicapped chil-\n-dreu. I heard that you had tried to\ncontact me through Catholic Charities in\nWashington D.C. 9 am amxious to know if\nyou have been able to find a house\nfor me to begin taking eu babies for\nIf adoption you are not able to find a place - could\nwe begin the adoptions from our own\nhouse for unived mothers in Washington De\nor Miami? In both cities we have young\ngirls with us who choose to let the baby\nlive. Could we have the permission to\nbegin the adoptions program with them?\nI have not heard from you, and I would\nlike to have a definite answer, so many\nbabies are being aborted- help me Mrs. Clenton\nto save their lives. Give the chance to love\ncreated them. you will be happy to know that\nand to be loved- for what reason God has\nfrom our home in Calcutta, I have given 3,000\nSet us together do something beautiful for God\nCabies in adoption\nGod bless Holl, your family and people you serve 100 Tosann\n1\n+IDM\nMISSIONARIES\n54A A.J.C. Bose Rd , Calcutta 700 016\n2 November 1996\n\"As long as you did it to one of these My least brethren. You did it to Me\"\nOF CHARITY\nMrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton\nThe White House\nWashington, D.C.\nDear hrs. Clinton,\nThank you very much for your concern\nand for your prayers for my recovery.\nMy health is much better now. The doctors,\nnurses and the sisters did their best\nand I thank God for all of them - for\nHis tender love shown through them.\nI am praying for you and your family,\nespecially for Mr. Clinton. God has\nentrusted to your care such an important\nresponsibility as head of a great nation.\nThere is SO much good you can do if you\nlisten to God in the silence of your\nheart.\nGod bless you\nlee Teresa me\nJune 27, 1994\nMother Theresa\nMissionaries of Charity\n54-A A.J.C. Bose Road\nCalcutta, 700016 India\nDear Mother Theresa,\nIt was very thoughtful of you to send\nme your photograph. I appreciate hearing\nfrom you and understand that Sandy and\nmembers of my staff are making progress on\nthe adoption project.\nWith respect and warm regards, I\nremain\nSincerely yours,\nHillary Rodham Clinton\nThe fruit of SILENCE is Prayer\nThe fuit of PRAYER is Faith\nThe fruit of FAITH is Love\nTheffruit of LOVE is Service\nThe Truit of SERVICE is Peace\nMother Teresa\nApril 26, 1995.\nDear Hrs. Clinton\nGod love you for the love you\ngive and the joy you have shared by\nyour visit to our Home in Delhi,\nalongwith your generous and thought-\nful gift. I am SO sorry not to have\nbeen able to meet you and hope that\nyou will visit Calcutta soon.\nThe Poor are beautiful people,\nthey are God's gift to us - drawing\nus all together to bring His Peace &\nLove in our world today.\nMy deep gratitude to you, is my\nprayer for you.\nLet us pray\nGod bless you\nlee Teresa me\nec: Melanne\nre\nMISSIONARIES\n'As long as you did it to one of these My least brother. You did it to Me'\nIs\nare\nare\nCalcutta\nI\nng\nnt:\nOF CHARITY\n22/8/95\nto\nto\nne\nDear Mrs Clinton,\nng\n9 am so grateful to you\nfor the love you have\ngiven for our New home\nthe \"gift of love \"My grate\ntude is my prayer for you\nand your Jamily and your\nCountry. Let us pray that\nthis home of love well\nhelp many young women.\nto live a better life.\nWe must try to get the\nproper permission for giveng\nthe children in adoption\nfrom the Govern meet\nRegistered Charity S 3509 of 1958-1959\nMISSIONARIES OF CHARITY PROJECT\nSTATUS REPORT\nJanuary 25, 1995\nThe Missionaries of Charity Project was formed to provide pregnant women\nwho do not want to keep their children with the option of adoption as an alternative\nto abortion.\nThe Sisters seek to establish a home in the District of Columbia for infants to\nreside temporarily prior to their being placed with adoptive or foster families.\nSandra McMurtrie, a liaison to Mother Teresa, and attorney W. Shepherdson\nAbell have been the contact persons for the Missionaries of Charity. The law firm of\nFeldesman, Tucker, Leifer, Fidell & Bank has been providing legal assistance to the\nSisters. Wohlmuth Associates Architects will provide the architectural assistance in\nthe structural renovations required for the home.\nOriginally, the Missionaries of Charity expressed a desire to operate an adoption\nagency in the District of Columbia. This plan was not feasible because the District of\nColumbia regulations concerning child placing agencies presented several\ninsurmountable obstacles. Specifically, they required that the agency personnel have\nadvanced education degrees and years of experience that none of the Sisters\npossesses or had plans to obtain. Accordingly, compliance could not be guaranteed\nand a waiver of the regulations was inappropriate.\nNext, the attorneys developed a plan whereby the Sisters would work in\nconjunction with the Catholic Charities, which currently has a license to operate a\nchild placing agency. An arrangement was agreed upon whereby the Missionaries of\nCharity would operate a temporary home for infants until Catholic Charities could\narrange for a permanent placement for these children.\nThe Missionaries of Charity will operate a home similar to the \"boarder baby\"\nhomes in the District of Columbia. A \"boarder baby\" is a baby that remains\n\"boarding\" in the hospital following its birth despite being medically ready for\ndischarge.\nssionaries of Charity Project\ncatus Report\nJanuary 25, 1995\nPage 2\nThe Sisters plan to renovate a home belonging to the Missionaries of Charity\nlocated in the District of Columbia. The home is currently used as a shelter for\npregnant women. The renovation is required to comply with regulations designed to\nassure a safe and healthy environment for children.\nThe attorneys have been involved in securing compliance with District of\nColumbia regulations for temporary homes. They have met with the Commissioner\nof the Commission on Social Services and her Special Assistant and representatives\nfrom the public affairs department. There is great enthusiasm among these District\nofficials in the success of the project. The attorneys have had ongoing discussions\nwith the District of Columbia Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs to\nobtain permits and to assure that any renovations comply with regulations.\nThe Missionaries of Charity have retained Wohlmuth Architects Associates to\nassist in the permit and renovations process. The architects and attorneys will\nconduct a site visit of the home in the next few weeks to determine the work that\nmust be done.\nDepending on the efforts required, it is the hope of all involved that a home will\nbe ready in the late Spring.\n2\nJune 29, 1995 Catholic Standard\nS-MOTHER THERESA\nF\nFrom the Staff\nTa\nA holy lady, a first lady and me\nA\nsk my mother or anyone else who has known me for more than five minutes and\nthey will tell you the same thing: I can outtalk a brass monkey. Although I don't\nreally know exactly what that expression means, I do know my mother used to say\nit to indicate that I was talking too much.\nAnyway, give me a subject or a topic - whether or not I'm familiar with it - and I can\nbeat it into the ground better than anyone. It's a fault, I know, but since I have so few, it is\n4\none of which I'm not quite willing to let go.\nThe subject de jour is Hillary Clinton and Mother Teresa. Last\nweek I was the only local reporter allowed to cover their meeting at\nthe opening of a new Missionaries of Charity home in Northwest\nWashington for infant children and expectant mothers. Although a\nnews wire reporter and a Washington Post columnist tagged along,\nthey didn't get to be part of the tete-a-tete between a rather odd tri-\numvirate: a Nobel Peace Prize winner considered a living saint, the\nFirst Lady of the United States and me.\nI have bored family, friends, strangers, neighbors, co-workers and\neven grocery store clerks with the details. Practically every sentence\nI utter begins with, \"As I told Hillary - oops, you probably know\nher as Mrs. Clinton - the other day or \"As Mother Teresa told me recently I know\nthat can wear thin after awhile, but the fact of the matter is, I have made my living as a jour-\nnalist for 15 years, but I was still excited over the interview.\nThere is a certain thrill when meeting such important persons. I was informed that the\nWhite House paged the Secret Service with my special clearance and permission to enter\ninto the home. I had to be checked out by a bomb-sniffing dog, and I was assigned my own\nSecret Service agent, Ashley.\nThat sounds glamorous, but it isn't, really.\n\"Do we need to synchronize our watches?\" I asked. \"No,\" Ashley told me. \"Did you assign\nme a code name?\" I asked. \"No,\" Ashley told me. What, then, did I need an agent for? To\nwatch me and make sure I didn't leave the room where I was to meet Mother Teresa and\n6\nHillary Clinton. Basically Ashley, who is assigned to the First Lady's security detail, was-\ngiven the job of babysitting me while I waited for my interview.\nDuring the wait, Ashley told me she was an Episcopalian, but was still more than thrilled\nto lay eyes on Mother Teresa. She wasn't disappointed.\n7\nI got to spend about four minutes with the two women and was able to ask a couple of\nquick questions. Both Mother Teresa and Hillary Clinton - who must get tired of being\nasked a thousand questions a day from strangers - were polite, attentive and downright\nfriendly. I was just about to ask the both of them if they wanted to hop over to nearby Mazza\n8\nGallery for . que of coffee when the First\nSecret Service agent, Asnley.\nThat sounds glamorous, but it isn't, really.\n\"Do we need to synchronize our watches?\" I asked. \"No,\" Ashley told me. \"Did you assign\nme a code name?\" I asked. \"No,\" Ashley told me. What, then, did I need an agent for? To\n6\nwatch me and make sure I didn't leave the room where I was to meet Mother Teresa and\nHillary Clinton. Basically Ashley, who is assigned to the First Lady's security detail, was-\ngiven the job of babysitting me while I waited for my interview.\nDuring the wait, Ashley told me she was an Episcopalian, but was still more than thrilled\nto lay eyes on Mother Teresa. She wasn't disappointed.\n7\nI got to spend about four minutes with the two women and was able to ask a couple of\nquick questions. Both Mother Teresa and Hillary Clinton - who must get tired of being\nasked a thousand questions a day from strangers - were polite, attentive and downright\nfriendly. I was just about to ask the both of them if they wanted to hop over to nearby Mazza\n8\nGallery for a cup of coffee when the First Lady's press agent and the Secret Service agent\nnotified me that my time was up with the duo.\nPerhaps - as many in my circle have alleged - I have made the meeting a bigger deal\n10\nthan it really was. But it was a big deal and an honor for me.\nThe big deal was for me, because with those two I'm sure I'm just one of a zillion news-\nmen they must contend with day in and day out, but I don't often get to chat with Mother\nTeresa and Hillary Clinton. The honor was not just for me, however, but for the Catholic\nThe\nStandard as well. Here we are, a small weekly - - a religious weekly for that matter - - hold-\ning our own and scooping the big boys: two daily newspapers, scads of other newspapers,\nLa\nnational and international news wire services, and local and national television news reporters.\ntin\nBeyond this newspaper and its overly (and easily) excited reporter, the big winners of the\nday were the children threatened with abortion, who now have a safe haven and a good\nFa\nlaunching pad into life. Politics aside, Mother Teresa and the First Lady - on opposite ends\nab\nof the pro-life debate - could overlook their differences to open this special home for these\nbe\nchildren. And who wouldn't be pleased to be a part of that?\nN\nAnd besides, if Mother Teresa and Hillary Clinton are reading this, that invitation to meet\nan\nfor a cup of coffee still stands.\nDc\nBy Richard Szczepanowski\nPublished Weekly by Carroll\nGeneral Manager\nChange\nCatholic\nPublishing Company, 5001 Eastern\nThomas H. Schmidt\nSubscri\nAvenue, Hyattsville, MD 20782.\nmail wi\nSecond-class postage paid at\nEditor\nDepart\nStandard\nHyattsville, MD 20780 and additional\nMark V. Zimmermann\nchange\nmailing offices. USPS 094-480. ISSN\n0411-2741. Annual subscriptions:\nAdvertising Sales Director\nARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON\nU.S. $28, foreign $31.50, senior citi-\nMarty Valentine\nzen $19. Postmaster: Send address\nchanges to Catholic Standard, P.O.\nCirculation/Promotion Director\nBox 4464, Washington, DC 20017.\nLinda Milo-Tippett\naddition\nADOPTION\nNews Briefs\nFirst Lady, Mother Teresa Join Efforts\nIn a unanimous decision June 19, the Supreme Court\nruled that the South Boston Allied War Veterans'\nA year-and-a-half ago at the\nnonprofit organization rep-\nCouncil does not have to allow homosexuals to march in\nNational Prayer Breakfast in\nresentatives to handle the\nits annual Saint Patrick's Day párade. A Massachusetts\nWashington, D.C., Mother\nbureaucratic and legal issues\ncourt had ordered the veterans to allow homosexuals to\nTeresa criticized the Clinton\nof opening such a home.\nmarch after a suit had been filed, but the group canceled\nadministration's abortion\nDespite any ideological\nthe parade instead (CT, March 5, 1995, P. 55).\npolicies in front of an audi-\ndifferences between them,\nReformed Theological Seminary (RTS) broke ground in\nence that included the\nboth women agree that\nApril on a $22 million, 60-acre campus in Orlando, Florida,\nPresident and First Lady.\nto replace the facility operated in Orlando since 1989. RTS\nBut now, as a result\noffers 19 degree programs and has 1,400 students on cam-\nof a collaboration\npuses in Orlando; Jackson, Mississippi; and Charlotte, North\nbetween Mother Teresa\nCarolina. The Orlando campus has 750 students.\nand Hillary Rodham\nThe Chicago-based Americans\nClinton, the nation's\nUnited for Life (AUL) has promoted\ncapital has opened a\npresident Paige Cunningham to board\nshelter for children\nchair and vice president Clarke\nawaiting adoption or\nForsythe to president. Cunningham, 39,\nplacement with a foster\nhas been with AUL for 15 years and\nfamily. The Mother\nreplaces Victor Rosenblum, who will\nTeresa Home for Infant\nremain on the board. Forsythe, 36, has\nChildren, purchased for\nbeen with AUL for ten years and has\nthe Catholic church by\nRELIGION NEWS SERVICE\nserved as general counsel on several\nan anonymous donor,\ncases before the U.S. Supreme Court.\nPaige Cunningham\nwill accommodate up to\nThe American Association of\neight children, from\nUniversity Professors in May censured Nyack College in\nnewborns to three-year-\nNew York for violating academic freedom standards in not\nolds, under the care of\nrenewing the contract of English professor June Hagen (cT,\nsisters from Mother\nOdd couple: Hillary Rodham Clinton and Mother\nFeb. 6, 1995, P. 44). Hagen had sported a \"Support Gay\nTeresa's group, the\nTeresa find common ground on adoption.\nRights\" button on the campus of the Christian and\nMissionaries of Charity.\nMissionary Alliance school.\nThe home is the result of\nadoption is the best alterna-\nFederal Judge James Turk of Lynchburg, Virginia, has dis-\na process that began when\ntive to abortion.\nmissed a case in which the Federal Elections Commission\nMother Teresa asked the\nMrs. Clinton, who supports\n(FEC) claimed the Christian Action Network (CAN) violated\nFirst Lady to help her create\nabortion rights, encouraged\nthe law by airing commercials criticizing Bill Clinton (CT,\nsuch a shelter after last year's\nthe audience at the home's\nSept. 12, 1994, P. 60). \"The advertisements represent a form\nprayer breakfast. Mrs.\nopening \"to use this occasion\nof issue advocacy intended to inform the public about polit-\nClinton responded by set-\nto do all that you can to pro-\nical issues germane to the 1992 presidential election,\" Turk\nting up a coalition of com-\nmote adoption\nof all babies\nruled. \"Therefore, the advertisements are fully protected as\nmunity leaders, officials, and\nand children.\"\n'political speech' under the First Amendment.\"\nInternational Bible Society (IBS) and Zondervan\nEMPLOYEE RIGHTS\nPublishing House in June signed an agreement to extend a\npartnership on the New International Version to the year\n2023. As copyright holder of the NIV, IBS grants exclusive\nTeen Wins Wage Settlement\npublishing rights to Zondervan, which then licenses the\nBible to other publishers. The NIV was published in 1978 and\nSeventeen-year-old Shawn\nit's more important to cele-\nhas become the most widely used English translation:\nDeArmond had written a\nbrate Christ's birth than to\nBenjamin Griffin became president of Andover Newton\nrequest to have last\nhelp people watch Dumb and\nTheological School in Newton Centre, Massachusetts, on\nChristmas off from his job\nDumber,\" the film showing\nAugust 1. He had been president at United Theological Seminary\nselling popcorn at United\non Christmas. After inter-\nof the Twin Cities in Minnesota for the past eight years.\nArtists Theaters in Aptos,\nvention by the Rutherford\nGregory Waybright will become president of the\nCalifornia, to celebrate the\nInstitute, United Artists\nEvangelical Free Church-affiliated\nholiday with his family.\nagreed, paying him an $800\nTrinity International University on\nWhen his manager denied\nsettlement for lost wages.\nSeptember 1. Kenneth M. Meyer, who\nthe request, DeArmond,\n\"The law requires employ-\nhas been president since 1974, will\nwho describes his Christian\ners to accommodate employ-\nbecome chancellor of Trinity, which\nbeliefs as \"pretty heavy Epis-\nees' sincerely held religious\nhas a divinity school and liberal arts\ncopalian,\" protested, but to\nbeliefs,\" Rutherford attorney\ncollege in Deerfield, Illinois, and a lib-\nno avail. By Christmas Eve,\nDana Cody says. DeArmond\neral arts campus in Miami. Waybright\nhe had been fired for refus-\nnow works mixing fruit and\nhas been a pastor for 17 years, most\ning to perform his job.\njuice drinks at a local health\nrecently at Arlington Heights (III.)\nGregory Waybright\nDeArmond says, \"I think\nfood restaurant.\nEvangelical Free Church.\nCT\nCHRISTIANITY TODAY: AUGUST 14, 1995 61\nDRAFT 3 7:15 p.m.\nI've been collecting stories from fellow parents about the traumas of leaving a child at\ncollege. There's the one about the mother who snuck back on campus just to see her son one last\ntime only to find herself skulking around the hallway of his dorm like a spy in a Grade B Cold\nWar thriller. I could empathize. There was the father who couldn't sleep at night because he was\nworried that his son wasn't sleeping enough; the mother who couldn't bear to erase any phone\nchodued up.\nmessage from her absent daughter; the parents who cried every time they walked by the empty\nroom that used to drive them crazy with its clutter and noise.\nI've taken a lot of comfort from those stories because misery loves company, and I am\ndreading the moment Bill and I have to say good-bye to Chelsea at Stanford later this week. Oh,\nI know all about how great I should feel at her achievement and how excited I should be about\nthe wonderful experiences that await her. But those are my mature moments. Most of the time\nI'm wondering why I ever agreed to let her skip third grade.\nSo I've kept busy cross-checking the endless lists of supplies college freshmen are said to\nneed in their dorm rooms. I've cleared out closets and drawers, sorted, thrown out and given\naway clothes, and generally managed to stay busy with the endless tasks of preparing to send her\noff. As long as there are tasks to be completed, she can't go, right?\n1\nI am grateful that Chelsea has been largely spared unwelcome and intrusive press\nattention during the last four-and-a-half years. Once the American media understood that Bill\nand I were committed to protecting her privacy they have -- with very few exceptions -- avoided\nany hint of stalking her or covering her outside of clearly public events that she participated in\nbecause of her father's role. Their sensitivity and responsibility haves been enormously\nbeneficial for my daughter and she has had as normal a growing-up as is possible in the White\nHouse. She's been allowed to be a regular teenager, free to could pursue her studies and\ninterests without fear of interference. That's as it should have been. And that's as it should be for\nthe\nshld\nChelsea, William and Harry or any child of any public figure who wants be left alone to\nmature as sanely as possible.\nI remember well my own college years: the good, the bad and the ridiculous. The dates\nthat didn't work out; the late night rushing back to the dorm before curfew -- a relic of the distant\npast; the caffeine-fueled all-nighters during finals; the long walks through city streets or across\ncampus that ended in a tender moment with a handsome new boyfriend. I can't imagine having\nany of those private experiences, all part of finding myself, being interrupted by the bright lights\nof cameras -- and not because of anything I was or did, but because of my parents' occupations.\nI hope Chelsea's college years will be her own, too. I pray that she and her friends will\nspend the next four years learning, discovering what is important to them, and moving closer to\nAnd wide they dr that, I will extent mula\ntheir hopes and dreams. Then I can go back to worrying about earthquakes and stolen bicycles. teah\nof\n3\ncountry also\nhe\nAs far as Chelsea is concerned, she's ready to go; there's no doubt about that. Because\nStanford starts much later than most schools, Chelsea has already heard from many of her friends\nabout the joy excitement, and adjustments of college life -- from new roommates to professors\nwho expect you to read 500 pages a night to\nme drzes need\nhonover,\nAnd the fact is, the really important things any student takes to college aren't packed in\nboxes and suitcases, but in their minds and hearts. Like most mothers, I've busied myself\nworrying about trivia like the color of her towels when what I'm really concerned about is\nwhether she'll make good friends, how she'll like her classes, and whether she'll eat the right\nfoods. Unlike every other mother, however, I have the added concern of security and privacy\nthat go along with her being the President's daughter. Bill and I trust Chelsea to be off on her\nown, but we are no longer able to shield her as we have tried to do while she was at home with\nus.\nThat is a problem I've thought a lot about in the wake of Princess Diana's death and the\nresulting concern about her sons. Neither my daughter nor the young princes chose their parents'\ncircumstances. They like all young people -- are entitled to space and privacy. They deserve\nto be able to pursue their educations and navigate toward adulthood without the extra pressure of\npress and public scrutiny.\n2\nKatherine Searcy\nDATE:\nTuesday, September 16, 1997\nMEMO\nTO:\nDavid Shipley. at home\nDavid-We have read through this once,\nFAX:\nbut ! will read it again now Llook forward to\n301 6563905\nhearing from you --Katherine\nFROM: Katherine Searcy\nPAGES: 3\nKatherine Searcy\n(310) 337-7625\n(2/9/16/97\n36:15PM\n12/3\nTALKING IT OVER\nCLINTON LIBRARY PHOTOCOPY\nBY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON\nRELEASE: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1997\nI've been collecting stories from fellow parents about the traumas of\nleaving a child at college. There's the one about the mother who snuck back on\ncampus to see her son one last time only to find herself skulking around the\nhallway of his dorm like a spy in a Grade B Cold War thriller I could empathize\nThere was the father who couldn't sleep at night because he was worried that\nhis son wasn't sleeping enough; the mother who couldn't bear to erase any\nphone message from her absent daughter; the parents who choked up every\ntime they walked by the empty room that used to drive them crazy with its clutter\nand noise.\nI've taken a lot of comfort from those stories because misery loves\ncompany, and I am dreading the moment Bill and I have to say goodbye to\nChelsea at Stanford later this week. Oh. I know all about how great I should feel\nat her achievement and how excited I should be about the wonderful\nexperiences that await her. But those are my mature moments. Most of the time,\nI'm wondering why I ever agreed to let her skip third grade.\nSo I've kept busy cross-checking the endless list of supplies collo ae\nfreshmen are said to need in their dorm rooms. I've cleared out closets and\ndrawers, sorted, thrown out and given away clothes, and generally managed to\nstay busy with the never-ending tasks of preparing to send her off.\nAs far as Chelsea is concerned, she's ready to go; there's no doubt about\nthat. Because Stanford starts much later than most schools, Chelsea has\nalready heard from many of her friends about the excitemen! and adjustments of\ncollege life -- from new roommates to professors who expect you to read 500\npages a night -- and even which items should be taken along and which should\nbe left at home.\nThe really important things any student takes to college, however, aren't\npacked in boxes and suitcases but in their minds and hearts. Like most mothers,\nI've busied myself worrying about trivia, like the color of her towels, when what\nI'm really concerned about is whether she'll make good friends, how she'll like\nher classes and whether she'll eat the right foods. Unlike every other mother,\nhowever, I have the added concern of security and privacy that go along with\nher being the President's daughter. Bill and I trust Chelsea to be off on her own,\nKatherine Searcy\n(310) 337-7625\n716/16/97\n06:15PM\n3/3\nTALKING IT OVER 9/18/97\nPage 2\nbut we are no longer able to shield her as we have tried to do while she was at\nhome with us.\nThat is a problem I've thought a lot about in the wake of Princess Diana's\ndeath and the resulting concern about her sons. Neither my daughter nor the\nyoung princes chose their parents' circumstances. Like all young people, they\nare entitled to space and privacy. They deserve to be able to pursue their\neducations and navigate toward adulthood without the extra pressure of press\nand public scrutiny.\nI am grateful that Chelsea has been largely spared unwelcome and\nintrusive press attention during the last four and a half years. Once the\nAmerican media understood that Bill and I were committed to protecting her\nprivacy, they have --- with very few exceptions -- avoided any hint of stalking her\nor covering her outside of clearly public events that she participated in because\nof her father's role. Their sensitivity and responsibility have been enormously\nbeneficial for my daughter, and she has had as normal a growing-up as is\npossible in the White House. She's been allowed to be a regular teenager, free\nto pursue her studies and interests without fear of interference That's as it\nshould have been. That's as it should be for William, Harry or the child of any\npublic figure, who should be left alone to mature as sanely as possible. And\nthat's how I hope it will be for Chelsea as she embarks on her college years.\nI remember well my own college years: the good, the bad and the\nridiculous. The dates that didn't work out; the late-night rushing back to the dorm\nbefore curfew -- a relic of the distant past; the caffeine-fueled all-nighters during\nfinals; the long walks through city streets or across campus that ended in a\ntender moment with a handsome new boyfriend. I can't imagine having any of\nthose private experiences, all part of finding myself, being interrupted by the\nbright lights of cameras -- and not because of anything I was or did but because\nof my parents' occupations.\nI hope Chelsea's college years will be her own, too. I pray that she and\nher friends will spend the next four years learning, discovering what is important\nto them, and moving closer to their hopes and dreams. Then I can go back to\nworrying about everything else from earthquakes to stolen bicycles.\nCOPYRIGHT 1997 CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.\nALL RIGHTS RESERVED\nCLINTON LIBRARY PHOTOCOPY\nher friends will spend the next Tour years\nto them, and moving closer to their hopes and dreams. Then I can go back to\nworrying about everything else -- from earthquakes to stolen bicycles.\nCOPYRIGHT 1997 CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.\nALL RIGHTS RESERVED\nKatherine Searcy\n(310) 337-7625\n16/9/16/97\n06:42 PM\n[]1/3\nDATE:\nTuesday, September 16, 1997\nMEMO\nTO:\nDavid Shipley, at home\nFAX:\n301 6563905\nFROM:\nKatherine Searcy\nPAGES: 3\nKatherine Searcy\n(310) 337-7625\n7/16/97\n(56:42 PM\n12/3\nCLINTON LIBRARY PHOTOCOPY\nTALKING IT OVER\nBY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON\nRELEASE: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1997\nI've been collecting stories from fellow parents about the traumas of\nleaving a child at college. There's the one about the mother who snuck back on\ncampus to see her son one last time only to find herself skulking around the\nhallway of his dorm like a spy in a Grade B Cold War thriller. I could empathize.\nThere was the father who couldn't sleep at night because he was worried that\nhis son wasn't sleeping enough; the mother who couldn't bear to erase any\nphone message from her absent daughter; the parents who choked up every\ntime they walked by the empty room that used to drive them crazy with its clutter\nand noise.\nI've taken a lot of comfort from those stories because misery loves\ncompany, and I am dreading the moment Bill and | have to say goodbye to\nChelsea at Stanford later this week. Oh, I know all about how great I should feel\nat her achievement and how excited I should be about the wonderful\nexperiences that await her. But those are my mature moments. Most of the time.\nI'm wondering why I ever agreed to let her skip third grade.\nSo I've kept busy cross-checking the endless list of supplies college\nfreshmen are said to need in their dorm rooms. I've cleared out closets and\ndrawers, sorted, thrown out and given away clothes, and generally managed to\nstay busy with the never-ending tasks of preparing to send her off.\nAs far as Chelsea is concerned, she's ready to go; there's no doubt about\nthat. Because Stanford starts much later than most schools, Chelsea has\nalready heard from many of her friends about the excitement and adjustments of\ncollege life -- from new roommates to professors who expect you to read 500\npages a night -- and even which items should be taken along and which should\nbe left at home.\nThe really important things any student takes to college, however, aren't\npacked in boxes and suitcases but in their minds and hearts. Like most mothers,\nI've busied myself worrying about trivia, like the color of her towels, when what\nI'm really concerned about is whether she'll make good friends. how she'll like\nher classes and whether she'll eat the right foods. Unlike every other mother,\nhowever, I have the added concern of security and privacy that go along with\nher being the President's daughter. Bill and I trust Chelsea to be off on her own,\nKatherine Searcy\n(310) 337-7625\n17/16/97\n16:43PM\n[}3/3\nTALKING IT OVER 9/18/97\nPage 2\nbut we will no longer be able to shield her as we have tried to do while she was\nat home with us.\nThat is a problem I've thought a lot about in the wake of Princess Diana's\ndeath and the resulting concern about her sons. Neither my daughter nor the\nyoung princes chose their parents' circumstances. Like all young people, they\nare entitled to space and privacy. They deserve to be able to pursue their\neducations and navigate toward adulthood without the extra pressure of press\nand public scrutiny.\nI am gratefui that Chelsea has been largely spared unwelcome and\nintrusive press attention during the last four and a half years. Once the\nAmerican media understood that Bill and I were committed to protecting her\nprivacy. they have -- with very few exceptions -- avoided any hint of stalking her\nor covering her outside of clearly public events that she participated in because\nof her father's role. Their sensitivity and responsibility have been enormously\nbeneficial for my daughter, and she has had as normal a growing-up as is\npossible in the White House. She's been allowed to be a regular teenager, free\nto pursue her studies and interests largely without fear of interference. That's as\nit should have been. That's as it should be for William, Harry or the child of any\npublic figure, who should be left alone to mature as sanely as possible. And\nthat's how I hope it will be for Chelsea as she embarks on her college years.\n1 remember well my own college years: the good, the bad and the\nridiculous. The dates that didn't work out; the late-night rushing back to the dorm\nbefore curfew -- a relic of the distant past; the caffeine-fueled all-nighters during\nfinals; the long walks through city streets or across campus that ended in a\ntender moment with a handsome new boyfriend. I can't imagine having any of\nthose private experiences, all part of finding myself, being interrupted by the\nbright lights of cameras -- and not because of anything I was or did but because\nof my parents' occupations.\nI hope Chelsea's college years will be her own, too. I pray that she and\nher friends will spend the next four years learning, discovering what is important\nto them, and moving closer to their hopes and dreams. Then I can go back to\nworrying about everything else -- from earthquakes to stolen bicycles.\nCOPYRIGHT 1997 CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.\nALL RIGHTS RESERVED\nCLINTON LIBRARY PHOTOCOPY\nTO: Mrs. Clinton\nIS\nDRAFT 3 7.00 p.m.\nFROM: David Shepleng\nI've been collecting stories from fellow parents about the traumas of leaving a child at\ncollege. There's the one about the mother who snuck back on campus just to see her son one last\ntime only to find herself skulking around the hallway of his dorm like a spy in a Grade B Cold\nWar thriller. I could empathize. There was the father who couldn't sleep at night because he was\nworried that his son wasn't sleeping enough; the mother who couldn't bear to erase any phone\nmessage from her absent daughter; the parents who cried every time they walked by the empty\nroom that used to drive them crazy with its clutter and noise.\nI've taken a lot of comfort from those stories because misery loves company, and I am\ndreading the moment Bill and I have to say good-bye to Chelsea at Stanford later this week. Oh,\nI know all about how great I should feel at her achievement and how excited I should be about\nthe wonderful experiences that await her. But those are my mature moments. Most of the time\nI'm wondering why I ever agreed to let her skip third grade.\nSo I've kept busy cross-checking the endless lists of supplies college freshmen are said to\nneed in their dorm rooms. I've cleared out closets and drawers, sorted, thrown out and given\naway clothes, and generally managed to stay busy with the endless tasks of preparing to send her\noff. As long as there are tasks to be completed, she can't go, right?\nAs far as Chelsea is concerned, she's ready to go; there's no doubt about that. Because\nStanford starts much later than most schools, Chelsea has already heard from many of her friends\nabout the joy, excitement, and adjustments of college life -- from new roommates to professors\nwho expect you to read 500 pages a night.\nAnd the fact is, the really important things any student takes to college aren't packed in\nboxes and suitcases, but in their minds and hearts. Like most mothers, I've busied myself\nworrying about trivia like the color of her towels when what I'm really concerned about is\nwhether she'll make good friends, how she'll like her classes, and whether she'll eat the right\nfoods. Unlike every other mother, however, I have the added concern of security and privacy\nthat go along with her being the President's daughter. Bill and I trust Chelsea to be off on her\nown, but we are no longer able to shield her as we have tried to do while she was at home with\nus.\nThat is a problem I've thought a lot about in the wake of Princess Diana's death and the\nresulting concern about her sons. Neither my daughter nor the young princes chose their parents'\ncircumstances. They are entitled to space and privacy. They deserve to be able to pursue their\neducations and navigate toward adulthood without the extra pressure of press and public scrutiny.\nI am grateful that Chelsea has been largely spared unwelcome and intrusive press\nattention during the last four-and-a-half years. Once the American media understood that Bill\nand I were committed to protecting her privacy they have -- with very few exceptions -- avoided\nany hint of stalking her or covering her outside of clearly public events that she participated in\nbecause of her father's role. Their sensitivity and responsibility has been enormously beneficial\nfor my daughter and she has had as normal a growing-up as is possible in the White House.\nShe's been allowed to be a regular teenager who could pursue her studies and interests without\nfear of interference. That's as it should have been. And that's as it should be for Chelsea,\nWilliam and Harry or any child of any public figure who wants to be left alone to mature as\nsanely as possible.\nI remember well my own college years: the good, the bad and the ridiculous. The dates\nthat didn't work out; the late night rushing back to the dorm before curfew -- a relic of the distant\npast; the caffeine-fueled all-nighters during finals; the long walks through city streets or across\ncampus that ended in a tender moment with a handsome new boyfriend. I can't imagine having\nany of those private experiences, all part of finding myself, being interrupted by the bright lights\nof cameras -- and not because of anything I was or did, but because of my parents' occupations.\nI hope Chelsea's college years will be her own, too. I pray that she and her friends will\nspend the next four years learning, discovering what is important to them, and moving closer to\ntheir hopes and dreams. Then I can go back to worrying about earthquakes and stolen bicycles.\n7:50 p.m.\n310-337-7003\nFIRST LADY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON\nTALKING IT OVER\nSEPTEMBER 18, 1997\nI've been collecting stories from fellow parents about the traumas of leaving a child at\ncollege. There's the one about the mother who snuck back on campus just I to see her son one last\ntime only to find herself skulking around the hallway of his dorm like a spy in a Grade B Cold\nWar thriller. I could empathize. There was the father who couldn't sleep at night because he was\nworried that his son wasn't sleeping enough; the mother who couldn't bear to erase any phone\nmessage from her absent daughter; the parents who choked up every time they walked by the\nempty room that used to drive them crazy with its clutter and noise.\nI've taken a lot of comfort from those stories because misery loves company, and I am\ndreading the moment Bill and I have to say good-bye to Chelsea at Stanford later this week. Oh,\nI know all about how great I should feel at her achievement and how excited I should be about\nthe wonderful experiences that await her. But those are my mature moments. Most of the time\nI'm wondering why I ever agreed to let her skip third grade.\n1\nSo I've kept busy cross-checking the endless lists of supplies college freshmen are said to\nneed in their dorm rooms. I've cleared out closets and drawers, sorted, thrown out and given\naway clothes, and generally managed to stay busy with the endless tasks of preparing to send her\noff.\nAs far as Chelsea is concerned, she's ready to go; there's no doubt about that. Because\nStanford starts much later than most schools, Chelsea has already heard from many of her friends\nabout the excitement and adjustments of college life from new roommates to professors who\nt ad even\nexpect you to read 500 pages a night to which items should be taken along and which should be\n^\nleft at home.\nThe really important things any student takes to college, however, aren't packed in boxes\nand suitcases, but in their minds and hearts. Like most mothers, I've busied myself worrying\nabout trivia like the color of her towels when what I'm really concerned about is whether she'll\nmake good friends, how she'll like her classes, and whether she'll eat the right foods. Unlike\nevery other mother, however, I have the added concern of security and privacy that go along with\nher being the President's daughter. Bill and I trust Chelsea to be off on her own, but we are no\nlonger able to shield her as we have tried to do while she was at home with us.\n2\nThat is a problem I've thought a lot about in the wake of Princess Diana's death and the\nresulting concern about her sons. Neither my daughter nor the young princes chose their parents'\ncircumstances. Like all young people, they are entitled to space and privacy. They deserve to be\nable to pursue their educations and navigate toward adulthood without the extra pressure of press\nand public scrutiny.\nI am grateful that Chelsea has been largely spared unwelcome and intrusive press\nattention during the last four-and-a-half years. Once the American media understood that Bill\nand I were committed to protecting her privacy they have -- with very few exceptions -- avoided\nany hint of stalking her or covering her outside of clearly public events that she participated in\nbecause of her father's role. Their sensitivity and responsibility have been enormously beneficial\nfor my daughter and she has had as normal a growing-up as is possible in the White House.\nShe's been allowed to be a regular teenager, free to pursue her studies and interests without fear\nshit\nof interference. That's as it should have been. And that's as it should be for Chelsea, William\nand Harry or the child of any public figure who should be left alone to mature as sanely as\npossible. Ae mat's her I hope it ails be in Chissa M the ashs\nor ar conger years.\n3\nI remember well my own college years: the good, the bad and the ridiculous. The dates\nthat didn't work out; the late night rushing back to the dorm before curfew -- a relic of the distant\npast; the caffeine-fueled all-nighters during finals; the long walks through city streets or across\ncampus that ended in a tender moment with a handsome new boyfriend. I can't imagine having\nany of those private experiences, all part of finding myself, being interrupted by the bright lights\nof cameras -- and not because of anything I was or did, but because of my parents' occupations.\nI hope Chelsea's college years will be her own, too. I pray that she and her friends will\nspend the next four years learning, discovering what is important to them, and moving closer to\ntheir hopes and dreams. Then I can go back to worrying about everything else -- from\nearthquakes and stolen bicycles.\n4\nTo: Mrs. Clinton\nFROM: David Shipley\n8:45 p.m.\nFIRST LADY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON\nTALKING IT OVER\nSEPTEMBER 18, 1997\nI've been collecting stories from fellow parents about the traumas of leaving a child at\ncollege. There's the one about the mother who snuck back on campus to see her son one last time\nonly to find herself skulking around the hallway of his dorm like a spy in a Grade B Cold War\nthriller. I could empathize. There was the father who couldn't sleep at night because he was\nworried that his son wasn't sleeping enough; the mother who couldn't bear to erase any phone\nmessage from her absent daughter; the parents who choked up every time they walked by the\nempty room that used to drive them crazy with its clutter and noise.\nI've taken a lot of comfort from those stories because misery loves company, and I am\ndreading the moment Bill and I have to say good-bye to Chelsea at Stanford later this week. Oh,\nI know all about how great I should feel at her achievement and how excited I should be about\nthe wonderful experiences that await her. But those are my mature moments. Most of the time\nI'm wondering why I ever agreed to let her skip third grade.\n1\nSo I've kept busy cross-checking the endless list of supplies college freshmen are said to\nneed in their dorm rooms. I've cleared out closets and drawers, sorted, thrown out and given\naway clothes, and generally managed to stay busy with the neverending tasks of preparing to\nsend her off.\nAs far as Chelsea is concerned, she's ready to go; there's no doubt about that. Because\nStanford starts much later than most schools, Chelsea has already heard from many of her friends\nabout the excitement and adjustments of college life -- from new roommates to professors who\nexpect you to read 500 pages a night -- and even which items should be taken along and which\nshould be left at home.\nThe really important things any student takes to college, however, aren't packed in boxes\nand suitcases, but in their minds and hearts. Like most mothers, I've busied myself worrying\nabout trivia like the color of her towels when what I'm really concerned about is whether she'll\nmake good friends, how she'll like her classes, and whether she'll eat the right foods. Unlike\nevery other mother, however, I have the added concern of security and privacy that go along with\nher being the President's daughter. Bill and I trust Chelsea to be off on her own, but we-are-no\nlonger able to shield her as we have tried to do while she was at home with us.\n2\nThat is a problem I've thought a lot about in the wake of Princess Diana's death and the\nresulting concern about her sons. Neither my daughter nor the young princes chose their parents'\ncircumstances. Like all young people, they are entitled to space and privacy. They deserve to be\nable to pursue their educations and navigate toward adulthood without the extra pressure of press\nand public scrutiny.\nI am grateful that Chelsea has been largely spared unwelcome and intrusive press\nattention during the last four-and-a-half years. Once the American media understood that Bill\nand I were committed to protecting her privacy they have -- with very few exceptions -- avoided\nany hint of stalking her or covering her outside of clearly public events that she participated in\nbecause of her father's role. Their sensitivity and responsibility have been enormously beneficial\nfor my daughter and she has had as normal a growing-up as is possible in the White House.\nShe's been allowed to be a regular teenager, free to pursue her studies and interests\n1930\n1\nof interference. That's as it should have been. That's as it should be for William, Harry or the\nchild of any public figure who should be left alone to mature as sanely as possible. And that's\nhow I hope it will be for Chelsea as she embarks on her college years.\n3\nI remember well my own college years: the good, the bad and the ridiculous. The dates\nthat didn't work out; the late night rushing back to the dorm before curfew -- a relic of the distant\npast; the caffeine-fueled all-nighters during finals; the long walks through city streets or across\ncampus that ended in a tender moment with a handsome new boyfriend. I can't imagine having\nany of those private experiences, all part of finding myself, being interrupted by the bright lights\nof cameras -- and not because of anything I was or did, but because of my parents' occupations.\nI hope Chelsea's college years will be her own, too. I pray that she and her friends will\nspend the next four years learning, discovering what is important to them, and moving closer to\ntheir hopes and dreams. Then I can go back to worrying about everything else -- from\nearthquakes to stolen bicycles.\n4\nTO: Mrs. Clinton\nFROM: David Shipley\nDraft Two\n337-0589\n62289\nI've been collecting stories from fellow parents about the traumas of leaving a child at\ncollege. There's the one about the mother who snuck back on campus just to see her son one last\nSkilling\nThe\nof his dorm\ntime only to find herself slinking around his hallway hiding her face like a spy in a Grade B Cold\nmdistood about whated hr There was\nOR:\nculdn't\nWar thriller. She at least had the sense to be embarrassed. Or the father who can't concentrate at\nsleep at\nhas\nd\nhis\nassit\nright...\nwork because he ^ worries that the son who spent all of his time at home sleeping, isn't sleeping\nenough; or Ith the mother who can't bear to erase any phone message from her absent daughter; or\ncancdn't\nThe parent\nd\nThey ed\nThem\nwith\nthe one who cries every time she walks by the now empty room that used to drive her crazy by its\nclutter and noise.\nI've taken a lot of comfort from those stories because misery loves company, and I am\nhave to\nlater this week.\ndreading the moment Bill and I say good-bye to Chelsea at Stanford Oh, I know all about how\nunderful\nThat\ngreat I should feel at her achievement and how excited I should be about the great experiences\nawaiting 5 her. But those are my mature moments. Most of the time I'm wondering why I ever\nagreed to let her skip third grade.\nSo I've kept busy cross checking the endless lists of supplies college freshmen are said to\nn\ned\ned\nn\nneed in their dorm rooms. I've been clearing out closets and drawers, sorting, throwing out and\nan\nand generally managed to stay busy\nAs long as There are\ntasks to be\ngiving away clothes, staying occupied with the endless tasks of preparing to send her off. ^\ncompleted,\nBat\nshe can't\nAs far as Chelsea is concerned, she's ready to go; there's no doubt about that. In fact,\nstat\nBecause\nschools, 1 Chelsea has already heard From\ngo, night?\nStanford starts much later than most campuses which has given her the chance to share her\nA\nMany of her Friends about The joy excitement and a dijustments of college life-\nfriend's first weeks of adjusting to roommates and attending classes. She's also gotten advice from new\nDommates to\nabout what items were desperately needed and which ones could have been left home.\nclasses pat\nAnd the fact\ndon't actually\nA\nThe really important things any student takes to college aren't however, packed in boxes stact\nand suitcases, but in their minds and hearts. Like most mothers, I've busied myself worrying\nprofessors that ash yu to\na bood\nhaving to\nsize\nabout trivia like the color of her towels when what I'm really concerned about is whether she'll\nmake good friends, how she'll like her classes and whether she'll eat the right foods. Unlike\nevery other mother, however, I have the added concern of security and privacy that go along with her\nBill\nhe are\nstatus of being the President's daughter I trust Chelsea to be off on her own, but Kam no longer\nwe has tral +1\nable to shield her as I have when she was at home with us.\nThat is a problem I've thought a lot about in the wake of Princess Diana's death and the\nPrinces William and Harry\nworldwide anxiety about her sons, Neither my daughter nor the young princes chose their\ncacern\nare outitied to\nThey descrve to be able\nparents' circumstances, and they A should be permitted the space and privacy to pursue their\neducations and navigate toward adulthood without the extra pressure of press and public scrutiny.\nI am grateful that Chelsea has been largely spared unwelcome and intrusive press\nattention during the last four and one-half years. Once the American media understood that Bill\nprwacy\nand I were committed to protecting her they have with very few exceptions understood our\nreasons and avoided any hint of stalking or covering her outside of obviously clearly public events that\nher\nI\nshe participated in because of her father's role. Their sensitivity and responsibility has been\nenormously beneficial for my daughter and she has had as normal a growing-up as is possible in\nthe White House. She's been allowed to be a regular teenager who could pursue her studies and\nas\nit\ninterests without fear of interference. That's as it should have been and should be for Chelsea,\nwho wants\nWilliam and Harry or any child of any public figure asking to be left alone to mature as sanely\nas possible.\nI remember well my own college years: the good, the bad and the ridiculous. The dates\nrushing\nthat didn't work out; the late night corraces back to the dorm before curfew a relic of the\n\"all-nishter?\nall\ndistant past; the parties that got out of hand, foreing an early departure; the long walks through\ncity streets or across campus that ended in a tender moment with a handsome new boyfriend. I\n09/16/97 TUE 16:13 FAX\n001\nI've been collecting stories from fellow parents about the traumas of leaving a child at\ncollege. There's the one about the mother who snuck back on campus just to see her son one last\ntime only to find herself slinking around the his hallway kiding her face like a spy in a Grade B Cold\nshulhing\nS/W was\nThe urs\nacdut\nOR shep at nght\nWar thriller. She at least had the sense to be embarrassed. O+ the father who can't concentrate at\nbeen we\ncolduit\nus wind\nhas usrned that\nwork because he worries his son isn't (sleeping enough, or the mother who can't bear to erase any\nthat is 802\narrit\nphone message from her absent daughter; or therene every she by the DAIV\nparents who cries caid time They walks yed\nThem\nempty room that used to drive(her crazy by its clutter and noise.\nI've taken a lot of comfort from those stories because misery loves company, and I am\nhave to\ndreading the moment Bill and I say good-bye to Chelsea at Stanford Oh, I know all about how\nlater this\ndebal\ngreat I should feel at her achievement and how excited I should be about the great an experiences that\nawaiting her. But those are my mature moments. Most of the time I'm feeling sorry for myself,\n- ad\nwondering why I even agreed to let her skip third grade or worrying about everything from\n^\nearthquakes to bicycle theft.\nSo I've kept busy cross checking the endless lists of supplies college freshmen are said to\nTwo\nneed in their dorm rooms. Clearing out closets and drawers, sorting, cd throwing ^ out and giving on\naway clothes, 5tay staying gost busy carelly with the maged endless to tasks of preparing to send her off. As lus as here are tasher to\nBure\nbe caplated, she\nBut\nShe's ready to go, there's no doubt about that. La fact Stanford starts much later than\ncuit rally\n^\nhas already and has by\nabout\nNo\nson,\nexetement\nSo,\nright?\nmost campuses which has given Chelseathe chance to share her driend's first weeks of adjusting\nI\nadjustnts\nto roommates and attending classes She's also gotten advice about what items were desperately\nof college\nlife\nneeded and which ones could have been left home.\nAnd the but\nthe NW\nThe really important things any student takes to college aren't, however,' packed in boxes\nrountes\nto classes\nand suitcases, but in their minds and hearts. Like most mothers, I've busied myself worrying\nthat atot\nat non.\nabout trivia like the color of her towels when I'm really concerned about whether she'll make\n09/16/97 TUE 16:14 FAX\n001\ngood friends and how she'll like her classes and whether she'll eat the right foods. I I have the\nrole\nalso who my\nadded concern of security and privacy that go with her status of being the President's daughter. I\nDegate or\n3\ntrust her to be off on her own, but I have also been able to shield her when necessary when she\n[we been\nare to\nwas at home with us.\nshall ter her\nwere\nI've thought a lot about that in the wake of Princess Diana's death and the worldwide\nprus under I they.\nanxiety about her sons, Neither my daughter nor the young princes chose their parents'\ncircumstances, and, they should be permitted the space and privacy to pursue their educations\nand navigate toward adulthood without the extra pressure of press and public scrutiny.\nBill ad are intrely\n^\nI am grateful that Chelsea has been largely spared unwelcome and intrusive press\nY\nwe\nattention during the last four and one-half years. Once the American press understood that Bill\nprecery\nand I were committed to protecting her\\they have with very few exceptions understood our\nreasons and avoided any hint of stalking or covering her outside of obviously cloing public events that\nshe participated in because of her father's role. The result has been as normal a growing-up as is\nad to\npossible in the White House. She's been allowed to be a regular teenager who could pursue her\nstudies and interests without fear of interference. That's as it should have been and should be for\nA\nthat's as t\nChelsea, William and Harry or any child of any public figure who is under twenty-one and\nsm my is\nnurner a\nasking to be left alone to mature as sanely as possible.\nI remember well my own college years: the good, the bad and the ugly. The dates that\ndidn't work out; the late night car races back to the dorm before curfew a relic of the distant\nthe all-reghters\npast; the parties that got out of hand, forcing an early departure, the long walks through city\nstreets or across campus that ended in a tender moment with a handsome new boyfriend. I can't\nimagine having any of those private experiences, all part of finding myself, taking stock of who\nand what 1 wanted in life, being interrupted by the bright lights of cameras, not because of\nanyth I nes a did, but brune SI my part,\noccupations.\nNeed knower\nNeed and lne. Birst bad to for peer.\nCurress fr\ncan't imagine having any of those private experiences, all part of finding myself, taking stock of\nwho and what I wanted in life, being interrupted by the bright lights of cameras, and not because\nof anything I was or did, but because of my parents' occupations.\nI hope Chelsea's college years will be her own, too, and then all I'll have to worry about is\n/\nL\nearthquakes and bicycle theft.\nall the haves ad amertates\nof me- peers will\n-\nAd men I can 8 but to\nBroden\narmy in asout\n712-595-0208"
}