Posted on 07/21/2004 1:24:40 PM PDT by petercooper
Photograph by: Diana Walker, 1999 Secretary of Defense William Cohen, President Clinton, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and National Security Advisor Sandy Berger hear, see and speak no evil.
Diana Walker: This is to show you that not everything is serious at the White House. This is one of those behind-the-scenes pictures that you could—you could never get this picture in an open photo op. It just would never happen. And I was on assignment photographing Secretary Albright just prior to her trip to Bosnia. And, the President and Mrs. Albright were in a holding room at the NATO conference. And I—in my book, I went back to talk to all the Presidents about these pictures and I said to President Clinton, "What—What was going on, I can't even, you know—What happened?" He said, "Well, we all were sitting next to each other and I looked at this line of us and I sort of said, "Gee, we look like those monkeys." And suddenly, you know, Cohen was doing "Hear no evil," I was doing "Speak no evil," and Madeline was doing "See no evil" and Sandy Berger at the National Security Advisors simply said, "Well, I guess that makes me just evil." So I took that picture, and you won't be surprised by the fact I said, "Well that's it. I can leave now."
(Audio excerpt from The Littlefield Society Symposium, March 28, 2003, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas)
What a bunch of clowns......and we'll get the same type of fools if Kerry gets into the White House......shudder.
They most likely airbrushed it out. Not being fit for prime time viewing.
How true. I see nothing funny in this picture. They thought that they are "funny", but this a is Picture of Truth. There is no humor here.
Wouldn't this pic make Sandy Berger "evil"?
Oh ... that's a pillow.
If you recall, Madelaine used to wear a pin of the monkeys, and one day, near the end of his term, Clinton made the statement that the pin was a description of Madelaine's idea of a foreign policy. I have always assumed that this was what they were laughing about in this picture, which came out after the statement.
Thanks for posting this picture. It's getting a lot of play....KEEEP POSTING on EVERY BURGLAR thread!!
okey dokey
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