Bill Clinton named "Father of the Year"

Among Bill Clinton’s achievements, he can add one more to the list: Father of the Year.

According to Parade, The National Father’s Day Committee awarded the 66-year-old with the title of Father of the Year at a luncheon benefiting Save the Children yesterday in New York City.

The ceremony got a little emotional, as his 33-year-old daughter Chelsea Clinton made an appearance to present the award to her famous father.

He also felt very proud and honored to receive a text from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, earlier that day, saying “Congratulations. I think you deserve this.” According to Bill Clinton, "In our family, that's a very big deal."

In presenting the award to her father, Chelsea said, “Every day he’s my dad, and I don’t need an award to tell me he’s the best that I ever could have hoped for,” she said. “But I’m grateful he’s getting the recognition that I, of course, his unapologetically biased daughter, think he’s always deserved.”

According to Us Weekly, Chelsea talked about her father lovingly and openly, saying, "I don't need an award to tell me he's the best [dad] that I ever could have hoped for. But I'm grateful he's getting the recognition that I, of course, his unapologetically biased daughter, think he's always deserved."

Both father and daughter were equally proud of each other in their regards. Chelsea stated, "Of all the reasons that I'm proud of my father, I'm most proud that he's my dad and that he's always been there for me," she added. "He has always provided me a safe place to land and a hard place from which to launch."

The former Commander-in-Chief, responded with his love for Chelsea, telling stories about her birth and his family-first policy.

“During the sole argument we had when [Chelsea] was in high school, the subject of which I don’t even remember, I looked at her and said, ‘As long as you’re in this house, being president is my second most important job,’” he said.

Recounting her birthday in 1980, he revealed, “On the night she was born, I came home from Washington, D.C., from a governors’ conference. And Hillary’s water broke 15 minutes later,” adding that he protested to hospital staff who wouldn’t let him see Hillary. “If you send her into that room without me, I think you’re making a big mistake … I want to see my daughter born,” he recounted saying. Eventually, the doctors relented, he said. “They let me go in and hold Hillary’s hand. I saw Chelsea come out, and it changed the hospital’s policy on letting fathers into the delivery room when surgery was required. And from that day to this, I have believed without the shadow of a doubt that it was the greatest thing that ever happened to me.”

The ceremony between the father and daughter was touching, and it also honored Terry J. Lundgren, CEO of Macy’s, and Major Jackson Drumgoole of the Army for their outstanding roles as fathers.

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