Chelsea Finds Her Voice

Abandoning her past of silence, Chelsea Clinton acts as a surrogate for her mother

Posted February 5, 2008

Chelsea Clinton at a campaign event for her mother, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

And while Clinton will spend hours and hours answering the questions of voters, she still won't answer those posed directly from reporters. When 9-year-old Scholastic News reporter Sydney Rieckhoff asked her at the end of December if her father would make a good first man, she said she couldn't talk to the press. Now that, a month later, she has become even more of a public figure, this is one characteristic of "mute Chelsea" that will remain.