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Arian Campo-Flores reports on the whirlwind lives of Chelsea Clinton and Meghan and Sidney McCain, who could be the secret weapons in their parents’ race for the US presidency.
"Nothing, surely, was more shocking for a young Chelsea Clinton than an episode in 1998 that actually says a good deal more about another person potentially bound for the White House than her.
Republican John McCain told a joke in such astonishing bad taste that most of the American media, though they were aware of it, refused even to report it. Ms Dowd found herself writing at the time that Mr McCain “is so revered by the press that his disgusting jape was largely nudged under the rug”. But his words did leak out.
Though this may not be verbatim, he said: “Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno” (Ms Reno, of course, was Mr Clinton’s attorney general).
Chelsea may shortly watch her mother, if nominated, go into battle against Mr McCain and possibly defeat him in a general election. That would be sweet revenge."
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