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Barf Alert - White House to unveil Clinton's official portrait Monday
Associated Press | June 9, 2004 | David Hammer

Posted on 06/09/2004 3:09:32 PM PDT by HAL9000

Former President Bill Clinton's official portrait is to be unveiled and hung in the White House in a ceremony Monday, according to Smithsonian officials and a close Clinton friend.

The White House is coordinating the event and invited members of Clinton's staff Wednesday, including the head of Clinton's nonprofit foundation, Skip Rutherford.

Clinton spokesman Jim Kennedy declined to confirm the former president's schedule after Friday, but Rutherford said Clinton would attend the customary unveiling ceremony.

Also, the Smithsonian confirmed that Carolyn Carr, the curator of its National Portrait Gallery, would attend the ceremony.

The White House did not return calls seeking comment. Neither Rutherford nor National Portrait Gallery spokeswoman Anne Christiansen knew any details about the painting, the artist or where the portrait will be permanently displayed.

Christiansen said the White House and the National Portrait Gallery contain separate but equally official collections of painted portraits.

She said Nelson Shanks, best known for his portrait of the late Princess Diana, was working on a painting of Clinton for the Smithsonian collection, which now contains a bust and photograph of the former Arkansas governor.

Clinton also attended the last presidential portrait unveiling in the White House, held July 17, 1995, outside the East Room in the Grand Foyer for former President George H.W. Bush.

At that ceremony, Clinton sized up the painting and turned to his predecessor and said: "President Bush, if I look half as good as you do when I leave office, I'll be a happy man."

Copyright 2004 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.



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To: HAL9000

21 posted on 06/09/2004 3:53:25 PM PDT by Bars4Bill
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To: HAL9000

Couldn't wait for Reagan's body to even cool, could he, the selfish, traitorous bastard?


22 posted on 06/09/2004 3:54:04 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: badgerlandjim

Breathtaking! The likeness is remarkable. It has photo quality.


23 posted on 06/09/2004 3:59:10 PM PDT by yooper (If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there......)
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To: HAL9000

24 posted on 06/09/2004 4:13:15 PM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber!)
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To: HAL9000

does it come with a stain? or will clinton add that later?


25 posted on 06/09/2004 4:19:24 PM PDT by isom35
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To: HAL9000
to be unveiled and hung

It will be the first, and only, time in Bubba's life that he will be unveiled and found to be hung.

26 posted on 06/09/2004 4:45:46 PM PDT by Paul Atreides (Didn't your father tell you that unnecessary excerpting will make you go blind?)
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To: PackerBoy

the sink!!!
you beat me to it
still in hysterics


27 posted on 06/09/2004 5:09:57 PM PDT by genghis
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To: Registered

Wherefore art thou, Registered?


28 posted on 06/09/2004 5:20:59 PM PDT by grellis (What's a rooster and mashed potatos have to do with being a pirate?)
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To: HAL9000

I hope the portrait artist captured that merry twinkle in his eye, and the shiny rose red penis head nose bulb that just so perfectly says "Clinton" to all of his admirers.


29 posted on 06/09/2004 5:24:52 PM PDT by Richard Axtell
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To: HAL9000
What a legacy !


30 posted on 06/09/2004 5:32:15 PM PDT by Delta 21 (MKC USCG -ret)
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To: HAL9000

31 posted on 06/09/2004 6:27:32 PM PDT by Clint Williams (It's the liberal press. To liberals all truth is relative. Therefore it is its nature to lie.)
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To: HAL9000

Dog playing poker on velvet?


32 posted on 06/09/2004 6:30:44 PM PDT by mabelkitty
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To: Libertarianize the GOP

Yessssssssssss! He was impeached and was a total disgrace to the office. I think his portrait belongs in the "bowels" of the nearest Hooters!


33 posted on 06/09/2004 6:37:46 PM PDT by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: Landru
"A dollop of The Sink Emporer's jizzim -- preserved off the rug in the oval office -- would've served the same purpose.

I mean.

...if *remembering's* the idea."

Arrgh! blecch!

:{

If thats the last timeI hear that word, it'll be too soon... I'll never ask for a dollop... of anything...again...

34 posted on 06/09/2004 7:17:51 PM PDT by FBD (...Please press 2 for English...for Espanol, please stay on the line...)
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To: HAL9000

35 posted on 06/09/2004 8:27:00 PM PDT by NYC GOP Chick (Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! -- RIP, President Reagan)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

ROFLMCO! I was just thinking that we should chip in for a set of these for the Pres!


36 posted on 06/10/2004 12:52:56 PM PDT by Kackikat
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To: PeaceBeWithYou

ROFL


37 posted on 06/13/2004 12:38:03 PM PDT by Kackikat
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To: NYC GOP Chick

Haha Bill clinton Worst president EVER


38 posted on 06/13/2004 4:38:38 PM PDT by Quzar
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To: HAL9000
.... or where the portrait will be permanently displayed.

How about in the basement by the cat's litter box? And don't let Clinton go into the Oval Office.

39 posted on 06/13/2004 9:05:57 PM PDT by barker (Never read the fine print. There ain't no way you're going to like it.)
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To: steplock

That is TOO GOOD! LOL


40 posted on 06/14/2004 9:28:18 AM PDT by buffyt (There is no limit to what a man can do - as long as he doesn't care who gets the credit. R Reagan)
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