Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton finally have the titles they have long wanted: Grandpa and Grandma.
Their daughter, Chelsea, gave birth to her first child — with her husband, Marc Mezvinsky — on Friday and posted the news on Twitter early Saturday. “Marc and I are full of love, awe and gratitude as we celebrate the birth of our daughter, Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky,” Clinton said.
Bill Clinton, in a statement on Saturday afternoon, said “Charlotte’s life is off to a good start.”
“Chelsea is well and glowing,” he said. “Marc is bursting with pride.”
As late as Wednesday afternoon, Clinton was on stage delivering speeches and moderating panels at the Clinton Global Initiative gathering in New York.
The Clintons’ soon-to-arrive grandbaby was a constant topic of conversation at the meeting. When asked by CNN if he would “baby-proof” the White House — the implication being that Hillary Clinton would not only run for president in 2016 but also win — Bill Clinton replied, “One thing at a time.”
Both Bill and Hillary Clinton have a packed schedule this fall to raise money and campaign for Democrats in the midterm elections, although by Saturday morning Bill Clinton had canceled an evening fundraising event in Denver for Sen. Michael Bennet and Gov. John Hickenlooper.
Chelsea Clinton, 34, announced her pregnancy in April at an event on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, her mother at her side and her husband watching from the back of the room.
The baby arrives as the family, never out of the spotlight since Bill Clinton was elected president in 1992, has moved center stage amid speculation that Hillary Clinton will run for president, a decision that is considered likely but that she has remained coy about. She has said the baby’s arrival could be a factor in her decision.
“I’m about to have my first grandchild, which I’m thrilled about,” Hillary Clinton told Charlie Rose on PBS in July. “I want to see what that feels like,” she added. “I’m not going to skip over it.”
Chelsea Clinton, the vice chairwoman of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, married Mezvinsky in 2010, and they live in New York.
She has worked at a hedge fund and the consultant McKinsey & Co. and holds degrees from Stanford, Columbia and Oxford. Last month, Clinton announced that she was leaving her position as a special correspondent for NBC News less than three years into a tenure at the network that was at times bumpy.
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