Clinton family social gatherings and wedding details described in a personal account

37 contrast, is a BlackBerry fiend), which makes it hard to be in constant touch. Chappaqua remains a place for them to spend time together. On weekends, when both are off the road, she often takes the shuttle up from Washington—no government plane—on Friday night and returns to her house on Whitehaven Street in Northwest Washington on Sunday night. They’|l take long walks with their dog Seamus, a chocolate Labrador and the great-nephew of their White House dog, Buddy, who was struck by a car and killed in Chappaqua in 2002. Sometimes they go house-hunting in suburban New York for fun, which leads to unfounded rumors they are about to move. Frequent guests include close staff and old friends like Terry McAuliffe and investors Alan Patricof and Marc Lasry and their families. Only a few staffers were invited to Chelsea’s wedding, last July in Rhinebeck, New York, including the tiny village of women around Hillary who helped raise her: Maggie Williams, Melanne Verveer, Cheryl Mills, Capricia Marshall (now head of protocol for the government), and Huma Abedin, Hillary’s indispensable “body woman” and surrogate daughter, whose marriage to New York congressman Anthony Weiner the same month as Chelsea’s nuptials made Hillary feel as if she had two weddings in the family at the same time. “Her best friends are work and Chelsea, and now Marc,” a close family associate says, referring to Marc Mezvinsky, Chelsea’s new husband. Shortly before the wedding ceremony began, Bill, Hillary, Chelsea, and Marc went into a room together at the Astor Courts estate for a few minutes with no one else, not even Mezvinsky’s (divorced) parents. “They were three and now they’re four,” one friend says. (Contrary to rumors, Hillary’s aides say that Chelsea’s marriage is going well.) Never, Never, Never, Never Give Up HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024994