THERE was a time when satellite trucks jammed the parking lot of the local Grand Union here. Network camera crews descended on Lange’s Little Store and presidential motorcades with flashing red lights would bring traffic to a halt. Sheila MacWilliams had to chase a tabloid reporter out of a tree in her yard.
When Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton moved here in January 2000, news media coverage was so extensive that a national newspaper ran an article on how large a tip Mr. Clinton left at a local coffee shop (it was big: 32 percent) and photographers stood on chairs to capture the couple eating omelets. When asked byDavid Letterman on his show how her move to Chappaqua had gone, Mrs. Clinton joked, ”the only real problem that we had is when the satellite truck ran over the Welcome Wagon.”
Things have quieted down considerably since then. Mrs. Clinton, of course, is now a United States senator, and Mr. Clinton is well into his postpresidency. Both have memoirs coming out; Senator Clinton’s book is due in bookstores tomorrow. A much-promoted Barbara Walters interview about those memoirs, which will be shown tonight, was partly filmed at the Clintons’ home here. Still, the hoopla is nothing like it once was.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/08/nyregion/the-ex-president-next-door.html?smid=pl-share