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Chelsea Clinton wows charity crowd with off-the-cuff tribute to her late grandmother

By Glen Johnson

 |  Globe Staff  

  November 14, 2011

With her mother’s cadence and her father’s gift for extemporaneous speaking, Chelsea Clinton wowed the crowd Saturday night at a major fund-raiser for the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston. The former first daughter dropped her planned remarks and instead delivered an off-the-cuff tribute to her grandmother, Dorothy Rodham, who died earlier this month at the age of 92. It will only fuel speculation Chelsea is the next Clinton destined for politics, but she’s headed for network TV instead.

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