Charlotte.
Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of
the former president and ex-secretary of state, announced the baby's
birth on Twitter and Facebook early Saturday, saying she and husband
Marc Mezvinsky are "full of love, awe and gratitude as we celebrate the
birth of our daughter, Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky."
Clinton
spokesman Kamyl Bazbaz said the child was born on Friday but did not
immediately provide additional details. The couple lives in New York
City. The Clintons quickly retweeted their daughter's message on Twitter
but did not immediately comment on the baby's arrival.
The
baby arrives as Hillary Clinton deliberates on whether to seek the
White House in 2016, a decision that could put her on a path to becoming
the nation's first female president. Clinton is the leading Democratic
contender to succeed President Barack Obama, her former 2008 campaign
rival, and has said she expects to make a decision around the beginning
of next year.
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The baby has
been eagerly anticipated as Hillary Clinton considers her political
future — she has called the prospect of becoming a grandmother her "most
exciting title yet." She even has picked out the first book she intends
to read to her grandchild, the classic "Goodnight Moon."
She
has said she didn't want to make any decisions about another campaign
until the baby's arrival, pointing to her interest in enjoying becoming a
grandmother for the first time. If Clinton decides to run for
president, her campaign would coincide with the baby's first two years.
The former president has been
eager to become a grandfather. During an event with former President
George W. Bush in September, Mr. Clinton's cell phone rang on stage and
he joked that only two people had the number "and they are related to
me," musing that he hoped he wasn't becoming "a premature grandfather."
"Every
day I get up and I say, 'You have to remember whose child this is. Do
not interfere. Be there when you are welcome. Be loving but not
judgmental," Clinton said to laughs in an interview with CNN at his
annual Clinton Global Initiative, only days before the baby's arrival.
Even
Obama got into the act. Addressing the annual Clinton confab, Obama
quipped if Chelsea Clinton went into labor during his speech, "she has
my motorcade and will be able to navigate traffic."
The
34-year-old Chelsea Clinton said in an interview with Glamour magazine
last year that she and her husband had hoped to make 2014 "the year of
the baby." She announced her pregnancy in April at the end of a forum in
New York on female empowerment.
"I just hope I will be as good a mom to my child and, hopefully, children as my mom was to me," she said at the time.
Chelsea Clinton grew up in the
public eye as a teenager in the White House, later graduating from
Stanford and Columbia universities. She worked in finance in New York
and in public health, earning a doctorate from Oxford University.
She
serves as vice chair of her family's foundation, which was renamed the
Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, and helps direct the
organization's humanitarian and philanthropic efforts around the globe.
She recently departed NBC News, where she served as a special
correspondent.
The new
parents, who married in 2010, were friends as teenagers in Washington
and both attended Stanford. Mezvinsky is a hedge fund manager and the
son of former Reps. Majorie Margolies of Pennsylvania and Edward
Mezvinsky of Iowa, longtime friends of the Clintons.
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