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First family visits New York for house hunting, fund-raising
August 28, 1999 From CNN Correspondent John King CHAPPAQUA, New York (AllPolitics, August 28) -- The first family's summer vacation was interrupted this weekend for some New York house hunting and serious fund-raising.
On Saturday, President Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton, accompanied by their daughter, Chelsea, mingled with prospective neighbors after spending more than two hours inspecting a house in Westchester County, a suburb north of New York City. The president pronounced the house -- a five-bedroom Colonial with swimming pool sitting on slightly more than an acre of land -- "very nice." "But we don't have an announcement yet," said Clinton, who said they were looking for "some place nice and airy that will make Hillary happy." The real estate company that is listing the property, Westchester-based Houlihan/Lawrence, would not reveal the listed price. However, a neighboring real-estate company, Holmes & Kennedy, said the house is listed at $1,695,000. The Clintons came to New York from Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, where they had been vacationing. From suburban Westchester, they moved on to the tony Hamptons on Long Island for a weekend of events expected to raise nearly $2 million -- including $400,000 for the first lady's expected campaign for a U.S. Senate seat in New York in 2000.
November residency requirement
Hillary Clinton must establish a New York residence by November to run for the Senate. The weekend in the Hamptons will be followed by five more days of vacation, this time in upstate New York. But it won't be all rest and relaxation for Hillary Clinton. She plans to visit the state fair and wander into town a few times to mingle with the people she hopes to represent in the Senate come January 2001. |
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