Golf phenom finally meets president
NEW YORK (AP) - Tiger Woods used his first meeting with President
Clinton to offer his assessment of how Clinton's daughter Chelsea
will fare at Stanford University.
"She's gonna love it. She's gonna love it," Woods
told Clinton after the two ran into each other Sunday night at
a New York hotel.
Clinton was attending a United Nations reception at the Waldorf
Astoria. Woods was in the hotel with fellow Ryder Cup members
and the president met with Woods, who attended Stanford, and seven
of his teammates.
It was Clinton's first meeting with Woods. This past spring,
Clinton had invited Woods to join him in marking the 50th anniversary
of the day Jackie Robinson integrated major league baseball. But
Woods - who had just become the first black to win the Masters
- declined, citing a previously scheduled vacation.
On Sunday, Woods apparently was trying to soothe the president,
who has been rather melancholy since helping Chelsea, 17, move
into her Stanford dorm on Friday.
Clinton told reporters Sunday that he hadn't talked with Chelsea
since he bade her goodbye on campus. He said he and first lady
Hillary Rodham Clinton have started a little contest "to
see who is going to be the first to pick up the phone" and
call their only child.
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