Chelsea Clinton Continues Campus Tour

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(INDIANAPOLIS) - Of all the players in this year’s presidential campaign, hers may be the best-known voice you’ve never heard. She still doesn’t do interviews, but Chelsea Clinton has become the unofficial youth ambassador for her mother Hillary’s campaign.

She's on a three-day swing through five Indiana colleges, visiting IU, Ball State, Butler, IUPUI and Notre Dame.

At Butler, Clinton said her mother's failed attempt as first lady to pass a health-care bill shows her readiness to keep fighting for her causes, and her ability to learn from experience. She says the New York senator's latest health proposal includes the right to keep your current health plan, in direct response to voters who protested in 1994 they were happy with what they had.

Clinton acknowledges disagreeing with her mother on gay marriage -- the senator supports civil unions but not marriage and she hints at differences on trade issues. But she rejected a suggestion from one questioner that the senator is trying to have it both ways on NAFTA, touting her husband's White House experience as her own while distancing herself from the trade deal.

"Do you agree with your family on everything?" Clinton asked, before saying the then-first lady had made her concerns about NAFTA known at the time.

Illinois Sen. Barack Obama's campaign has countered that Hillary Clinton attended several meetings aimed at winning support for NAFTA, and that participants in those sessions recall her speaking in favor of it.

One student asked Chelsea Clinton about her mother's reaction to her father's affair with Monica Lewinsky. "Wow, you're the first person that's ever asked me that question in the 70 college campuses that I've now been to," Clinton responded. "And I do not think that's any of your business."

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