Chelsea Clinton leads family reunion as Clinton Global Initiative closes

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By Deepti Hajela

A family reunion closed out the Clinton Global Initiative in New York City on Thursday, as former President Bill Clinton turned the stage over to his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, for her thoughts on a range of global issues. Her interviewer? Their daughter, Chelsea Clinton.

The youngest Clinton asked her mother about issues ranging from technology to the world's food needs. Along the way, she let the audience know that she helped her mother send her first text message and that her father still referred to the Internet as the World Wide Web.

Hillary Clinton told the audience of world leaders, celebrities, business people, philanthropists and non-governmental organizations that "we really are in a new age, we're in the age of participation."

She said the challenge was for governments and other organizations to figure out how to be responsive to people as they make their voices heard, "how to help catalyze, unleash, channel the kind of participatory eagerness that is there."

"I want to see us moving toward a world where we do try to maximize the God-given potential of every person," Hillary Clinton said.

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[Blasphemer]

1. Odd to refer to it as a "reunion"

As if they had not seen one another in years.