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Hillary Clinton Faces Fund-Raising Questions

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Reveals that Chelsea ... has still not picked a college

WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, April 10) -- In a CNN interview today, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton defended the flow of White House guests she and President Bill Clinton have entertained, and attributed the constant allegations her husband faces to the current "political environment."

But she could not answer the hottest question of "Where is Chelsea going to college?" Explaining that her daughter is still weighing her options, Mrs. Clinton bemoaned, "I, like the rest of the world, will have to wait for her decision."

On the controversy over guests staying in the Lincoln Bedroom, the first lady said that she and the president were just trying to be "hospitable" and "share the White House" with old and new friends. She also said that they plan to continue entertaining.

"The White House is the only home we have. We don't have another home. We don't have a Kennebunkport or a ranch in California. That's where we live. It's not only our official residence, it is our home," she explained. "Some people [that visited] we have known all our lives and there are people that we have met recently ... Some have contributed to his campaigns. But I don't see where that should disqualify someone from being our friend or our guest." (288K wav sound)

On the new round of allegations being leveled at her husband's administration over Democratic fund-raising, Mrs. Clinton said only, "I'm so used to having allegations now after five years of constant allegations and charges."

"My attitude is, I just wait until the dust to settle and they seem to evaporate of their own weight, because there is not much to them. But then a new set of charges comes in to fill the gap. I think that's just part of our political environment today," she concluded. (288K wav sound)

But earlier on a WAMU radio talk show, Mrs. Clinton called the renewed interest in whether work found for former Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell was meant as hush money part of "the continuing saga of Whitewater."

"The never-ending fictional conspiracy that, honest to goodness, reminds me of some people's obsession with UFOs and the Hale-Bopp comet some days," she said.


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