Kirsten Gillibrand On Sports, Nicknames, And Pantsuits

Kirsten Gillibrand On Sports, Nicknames, And Pantsuits

This time, my first interview with Gillibrand, in mid-May, begins in the least threatening way imaginable: looking at a photo album, offered by her press secretary, featuring the senator's two beguiling sons, five-year-old Theo and Henry, who will be celebrating his first birthday with his parents this evening. Sniffling from a cold she caught from her boys and curled up on the edge of a canary yellow sofa in the Senate office she inherited from Clinton, Gillibrand seems to revel in chattering about safe topics. All it takes, for example, is a simple reportorial question to reduce her to giggles: Have you figured out how to handle child care as you run statewide in New York?

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