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+++++Privacy for me, a firing for thee
why, precisely, is it that we're all expected to bend over backward to give Chelsea and her family a 'normal' Stanford experience while the first family itself is under no similar obligation? It's a point well made by Daily alumnus Philip Taubman on the editorial page of Sunday's New York Times: 'If the long-term goal is to discourage a preoccupation with Chelsea Clinton, the White House should have considered a less flamboyant way of getting her to school.' The president traveled to Stanford with his daughter, and with the president traveled the usual phalanx of aides and a sizable press corps. If Hillary wants to dedicate her syndicated column to pleading for her daughter's privacy, if Stanford wants us all to forget that Chelsea is the daughter of the most powerful man in the world, the University and the White House must also make an effort to play along.
-- Jesse Oxfeld, in a column he submitted for the Sept. 29 issue of the Stanford Daily. The column was spiked and Oxfeld was fired.
SALON | Oct. 6, 1997