Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton made her debut a television journalist Monday night, reporting for NBC’s “Rock Center with Brian Williams,” but she didn’t exactly make a splash. New York Magazine called the exchange “fascinatingly dull,” as Clinton profiled Annette Dove, an Arkansas woman who runs a feel-good program called TOPPS, for her “Making a Difference” segment.
When Clinton was asked by Williams why she stepped into public life, she used her trademark run-on sentences to rehash the same story she gave to the New York Times.
“For most of my life I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life,” she said. Then she talked about her grandmother, Dorothy Rodham, who passed away in November and pushed Clinton to lead a more “purposely public life” after all.
“That being Chelsea Clinton had happened to me and I had a responsibility to do something with that asset and opportunity, and telling stories through ‘Making A Difference’ I believe will be one way to manifest that and I hope to make her proud,” she said.
