5-year-old Chelsea Clinton wrote Reagan urging against Bitburg cemetery visit
"I have seen the 'Sound of Music': the Nazis don't look like very nice people," Clinton wrote in 1985 letter, a photocopy of which is included in her first book set for release this week.
By JPOST.COM STAFFUpdated: SEPTEMBER 14, 2015 23:23Chelsea Clinton(photo credit: REUTERS)
Growing up in a family involved in the political realm seems to have rubbed off on Chelsea Clinton at a young age.At a mere 5-years-old, the only daughter of current US presidential contender Hillary Clinton and former US president Bill Clinton, was already lobbying leaders on diplomatic matters.In the summer of 1985, the young Clinton hand-wrote then-US president Ronald Reagan an endearingly scribbly letter against going through with a controversial visit to the Bitburg Military Cemetery in Germany, where dozens of Nazi forces are buried."Dear Mr. President, I have seen the Sound of Music: the Nazis don't look like very nice people. Please don't go to their cemetery (sic). Sincerely, Chelsea Clinton," reads the letter stamped with a seemingly compelling heart and rainbow sticker.An image of the letter, photocopied by her father, will appear in Clinton's first book for young readers entitled, It's Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired & Get Going!News of the letter made rounds in the media this week ahead of the book's September 15 release."I didn't think an American president should honor a group of soldiers that included Nazis. President Reagan still went, but at least I had tried in my own small way, " Clinton, now 35, told People magazine of her short petition.