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Clinton e-mail notes saved--both of them
Chicago Tribune ^
| 1/27/04
| Items compiled from Tribune news services
Posted on 01/27/2004 10:05:35 AM PST by erasmus605
Clinton e-mail notes saved--both of them January 27, 2004
LITTLE ROCK -- The archives of Bill Clinton's presidential library will contain about 40 million e-mail notes by the former president's staff--and two by the man himself.
"The only two he sent," Skip Rutherford, president of the Clinton Presidential Foundation, which is raising money for the library, said Monday.
One of them may not actually qualify because it was a test to see if Clinton knew how to push the button for e-mail.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clinton; clintonlibrary; email; presidentiallibrary; projectx
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To: Howlin
Yes, this does seem a little hard to beleive. Maybe these were the only two emails he sent from his White House address, or something. But the article doesn't make that distinction.
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posted on
01/27/2004 10:37:20 AM PST
by
erasmus605
(Posting without a license since 2003.)
I'll bet good money that his e-mail had some sort of .jpg attachment, and the subject line said, "Get a load of these hooters!"
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posted on
01/27/2004 10:37:50 AM PST
by
ErnBatavia
(Some days you're the windshield; some days you're the bug)
To: cyncooper
The Case of the Missing Emails
(Quote from this article)
"Clinton's utter disregard for the law (the emails in question are under supoena by a federal grand jury and 3 Congressional committees) and the media's unwillingness to force the President and Vice President to be held accountable for the stonewalling, half truths and lies that have become the hallmark of their administration is disgraceful."
And the libs are saying that the Bush admin. is the most secretive in history. Bollocks.
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posted on
01/27/2004 10:40:44 AM PST
by
erasmus605
(Posting without a license since 2003.)
To: cricket
Rush mentioned yesterday that 'Newsweek's' (or was it 'Time'. . .) latest sympathetic story on Bill has him laboring over his latest memoir. . .has to do it 'longhand' as he does not know how to use computer. . .That TIME piece is posted today, and for those with eyes to see, it reveals right in it that he has a ghost writer, though the fatuous reporter doesn't seem to "get it". Stupid or willing dupe? You decide:
Bill Clinton, The Bard of Chappaqua
Excerpt with the CLUE:
To hone his memories, Clinton has been sitting for long interviews with Ted Widmer who was a White House speechwriter and is now a history professor in Maryland. The two talk about Clinton's boyhood his late mother, Virginia Kelley, saved everything and Clinton then uses the transcript as the basis for his writing which he does on yellow legal pads. Clinton has told friends that he wants his memoirs to be like the riveting bestseller that Ulysses Grant wrote and that helped restore his tarnished reputation. (He's also said that he wants to avoid the kinds of tomes that Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson wrote after their presidencies because they had a pompous tone that missed their real voice.) There is no ghostwriter. Then Clinton goes over the sections with his editor, the legendary Bob Gottlieb, formerly of The New Yorker.
To: erasmus605
And the libs are saying that the Bush admin. is the most secretive in history.They have relentlessly accused this administration of what they themselves are guilty of. No doubt about it.
To: cyncooper
Clinton then uses the transcript as the basis for his writing which he does on yellow legal padsI forgot to bold the above. We simple folk call it "copying". I'm sure the "transcript" is pretty much the book.
LOL
To: erasmus605
Maybe "2" emails under the name "BillClinton@WhiteHouse.gov" but what about "hOrNyOzarkan@freeservingemailaccounts.net"?
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posted on
01/27/2004 11:10:49 AM PST
by
weegee
To: weegee
Sh*t, my coffee just came out my nose!
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posted on
01/27/2004 11:56:26 AM PST
by
Tallguy
(Does anybody really think that Saddam's captor really said "Pres. Bush sends his regards"?)
To: Tallguy
To cut the suspense, here they are:
To: Apex Private Supply Co.
From: Bill Clinton
Re: Apex Personal Straighter/Pump Combo
Please send me a Apex Personal Straighter/Pump Combo. I would like the "micro" size.
No 2.
To:
Complaints@Apex Private Supply Co.
From: Bill Clinton
Re: Dissastisfied Customer
I am extremely dissastified with your personal straightner. I still have a nasty curve in my [redacted], and I cannot [redacted] witout a picture of Tipper.
To: Tallguy
To cut the suspense, here they are:
To: Apex Private Supply Co.
From: Bill Clinton
Re: Apex Personal Straighter/Pump Combo
Please send me a Apex Personal Straighter/Pump Combo. I would like the "micro" size.
No 2.
To:
Complaints@Apex Private Supply Co.
From: Bill Clinton
Re: Dissastisfied Customer
I am extremely dissastified with your personal straightner. I still have a nasty curve in my [redacted], and I cannot [redacted] witout a picture of Tipper.
To: erasmus605
All true, but to be fair, if I were president, I wouldn't send any emails. Too much information. I would have a staffer filtering everything coming into me and taking dictation for everything going out.
To: erasmus605
I bet the emails begin:
"Hello. I am an officer at the Central Bank of Nigeria..."
-PJ
To: erasmus605
Presumably the second email was to say that he didnt recall sending the first.
To: Flashman_at_the_charge
Very good. LOL!
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posted on
01/27/2004 1:53:24 PM PST
by
erasmus605
(Posting without a license since 2003.)
To: erasmus605
Clinton, while in the process of authoring his third email, was informed by his IT guy that govt. regulations require that copies of all incoming and outgoing messages be saved and archived. He was then heard to say, in order, "Does this delete thingy do what I think it should?" and "Get this damn thing out of my office."
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posted on
01/27/2004 1:57:18 PM PST
by
BlueNgold
(Feed the Tree .....)
To: cyncooper
There is no ghostwriter. Then Clinton goes over the sections with his editor, the legendary Bob Gottlieb, formerly of The New Yorker. Good catch. Plus, wasn't Taylor Branch (the writer who did "Parting the Waters") involved as a ghost?
To: cyncooper
"Clinton has told friends that he wants his memoirs to be like the riveting bestseller that Ulysses Grant wrote and that helped restore his tarnished reputation. (He's also said that he wants to avoid the kinds of tomes that Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson wrote after their presidencies because they had a pompous tone that missed their real voice"
Pompous arrogance is only one of the logs in Clinton's eye; but he surely makes it apparent here to 'those who can see'.
You are right on your observations that there is a 'ghost writer' here; and he sits with Clinton everyday, creating a transcript (yet!). . .
Think the reporter is a more than willing stupid dupe!
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posted on
01/27/2004 8:55:06 PM PST
by
cricket
To: lormand
It's funny because it's bigger than a normal hat.
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posted on
01/28/2004 5:44:16 PM PST
by
bigghurtt
(Go Hogs Go...http://www.bigghurtt.com)
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