Strike a Blow For Equality

When Bill Clinton was elected president and moved to Washington, the Clintons' daughter Chelsea was enrolled in a private school. Soon after the inauguration, Chelsea complained of a headache one day and was sent to the nurse. When it was discovered that there was no signed parental authority on file permitting that she be given aspirin, the nurse told the little girl they would need to telelphone her mother. "No," Chelsea said, "not my mother. Call my father. My mother's too busy." I hasten to add, for the sake of complete disclosure, that I am not at this time a supporter of Hillary For President. I'm not supporting anyone yet. But by golly, she does have one major advantage that no other candidate, Republican, Democrat, or otherwise, has, she's a woman. I spent a lot of years watching my mom juggle motherhood, being a doting wife, running a household, and managing multiple careers successfully. My dad was a newspaper critic. All he ever had to do, for heaven's sake, was go to movies and write about whether he liked them or not, which I thought was as near perfect as you could get when it came to a job. I adored my dad. He was a terrific father. But of the two, guess which one would've got my vote for President.