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August 13, 2000
BURBANK, California (AP) - Hillary Rodham Clinton stopped in at "The Tonight Show" on Friday and got a laugh with a little help from her daughter. Host Jay Leno asked the first lady what would happen if Chelsea Clinton changed affiliation and announced that the Republicans had good ideas. "I'd miss her a lot," Clinton replied. Chelsea Clinton, 20, gave her mom a laugh from the studio audience. Reflecting on leaving the White House, Clinton told Leno: "People will have a new president and life will go on. The only person I'm worried about is you. What are you going to talk about when we're gone?" The first lady, running for the U.S. Senate in New York against Republican Rep. Rick Lazio, made the taping her first stop as she arrived in California for the Democratic National Convention. She had pre-taped a segment in which she walked around Rockefeller Center and asked people if she should appear on Leno's show, because "sometimes he's kind of mean." One woman advised her to go on the show because "otherwise he'll talk about you." In a relaxed give-and-take with Leno, Clinton praised the accomplishments of her husband's administration, outlined her own platform and extolled the beauty of New York state. But she said campaigning has not been easy. "I get yelled at to go home in 62 different languages, but it's part of the New York hazing experience," she said. Clinton, after months of needling from David Letterman, appeared on CBS' "Late Show" in January and received kid-glove treatment. "We have to give this woman a tremendous amount of credit for just showing up," Letterman said at the time. Two days later, Letterman underwent quintuple heart bypass surgery. When he returned to the air five weeks later, Letterman joked that he had new respect for President Clinton. "I spent a half hour with Hillary and look what happened to me," he said. Lazio is expected to appear on "The Tonight Show" later. |