Editing Chelsea Clinton (section)

==Early life ==

Chelsea Victoria Clinton was born in [[Little Rock, Arkansas]] on February 27, 1980. She is the only child of [[Hillary Clinton|Hillary]] and [[Bill Clinton]].<ref name="brit" /> Her name was inspired by a visit to the [[Chelsea, London|Chelsea]] neighborhood of [[London]] during a [[Christmas]] 1978 vacation. Hillary said that upon hearing the 1969 [[Judy Collins]] recording of the [[Joni Mitchell]] song "[[Chelsea Morning]]", Bill remarked, "If we ever have a daughter, her name should be Chelsea".<ref name="Clinton">{{cite book|last=Clinton|first=Hillary Rodham|title=Living History|title-link=Living History (book)|publisher=Simon and Schuster|year=2003|isbn=978-0-7432-4582-1|pages=[https://archive.org/details/livinghistory00clin/page/n101 84]–85, 91, 93|author-link=Hillary Clinton}}</ref><ref name="Mani">{{cite book|author=Mani, Bonnie G.|year=2007|title=Women, power, and political change|publisher=Lexington Books|page=218}}<!-- ISSN/ISBN needed --></ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE6DD1E3BF93AA25752C0A965958260|date=January 19, 1993|title=The Inauguration: Shedding Light on a Morning and a Name|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=December 6, 2009|archive-date=December 6, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081206024222/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE6DD1E3BF93AA25752C0A965958260|url-status=live}}</ref>

When Clinton was two years old, she accompanied her parents as they campaigned throughout Arkansas for her father's [[Governor|gubernatorial]] race.<ref name="Clinton"/> She learned to read and write at a very young age. Clinton claims that she started reading the newspaper by the age of three and also wrote a letter to President [[Ronald Reagan]] when she was only five.<ref name=":0">{{cite news|url=https://people.com/books/chelsea-clintons-letter-to-ronald-reagan-revealed-in-her-new-book/|title=Read the Letter 5-Year-Old Chelsea Clinton Wrote to Ronald Reagan|date=September 12, 2015|work=[[People (magazine)|People]]|access-date=May 10, 2017|language=en-US|archive-date=February 28, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230228030347/https://people.com/books/chelsea-clintons-letter-to-ronald-reagan-revealed-in-her-new-book/|url-status=live}}</ref> In the letter, which was photocopied and preserved by her father, she asked President Reagan not to [[Bitburg controversy|visit a military cemetery in West Germany]] that includes graves of [[Waffen-SS|Nazi soldiers]].<ref name=":0"/> Clinton attended Forest Park Elementary School, Booker Arts and Science Magnet Elementary School and [[Mann Arts and Science Magnet Middle School|Horace Mann Junior High School]], both Little Rock [[state school|public schools]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hillary-rodham-clinton.org/chelsea_clinton.html|title=Chelsea Clinton|publisher=hillary-rodham-clinton.org|access-date=December 13, 2007|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130810145800/http://www.hillary-rodham-clinton.org/chelsea_clinton.html|archive-date=August 10, 2013}}</ref> She skipped the third grade.<ref name="Hill column">{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-18-ls-33375-story.html|title=With Fear, Hope, Love and Best Wishes for My Daughter, Chelsea|last=Clinton|first=Hillary Rodham|date=September 18, 1997|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=December 18, 2013|archive-date=April 4, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404203115/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-sep-18-ls-33375-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1992, Clinton's father was first elected president, and she remained active at school right until the family's move to Washington, playing the Ghost of Christmas Past in her school's production of ''A Christmas Carol'' and dancing in Little Rock's production of ''The Nutcracker''.<ref name="people-interview" /> As a young child, Clinton was raised in her father's [[Southern Baptist Convention|Southern Baptist]] faith.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.christianpost.com/news/chelsea-clinton-insulting-mother-christian-faith-hillary-abortion-baptist-methodist-157418/|title=Chelsea Clinton Reveals She Left Baptist Church Over Abortion, Insulted When People Question Hillary's Faith|website=The Christian Post|date=February 11, 2016|access-date=January 13, 2017|archive-date=April 4, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230404203117/https://www.christianpost.com/news/chelsea-clinton-insulting-mother-christian-faith-hillary-abortion-baptist-methodist-157418/|url-status=live}}</ref>