Chelsea Clinton Debuts on NBC, Says Grandmother Behind Career Change
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Sept. 22: Chelsea Clinton speaks during a sesion at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York. (AP)
Chelsea Clinton revealed during her maiden appearance as a TV presenter Monday that it was her recently deceased grandmother Dorothy Rodham who pushed her to embrace her public profile.
Speaking on NBC's "Rock Center With Brian Williams" after presenting a story about a non-profit group in her native Arkansas, Clinton, 31, told Williams she has shied away from the public eye since her father became US president when she was aged 13.
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"For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life," she said, according to Politico.
"[Rodham] recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life, to lead a more of purposely public life, that being Chelsea Clinton had happened to me and that I had a responsibility to do something with that asset and opportunity," she said.
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Rodham died Nov. 2, aged 92. The Clintons paid tribute to her at the time, describing the "remarkable" woman as "a warm, generous and strong woman; an intellectual; a woman who told a great joke and always got the joke."
Clinton is contributing to NBC's "Making a Difference" series, which runs on its nightly national news program, covering the lives of volunteers who give their time up to help fellow Americans.
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Clinton also works with her father's Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative.