[ElkGroveDan]

A quick search of news archives from 1997 turned up this caption from the Washington Post, January 11, 1997 (sorry no access to photos from this source):

GRAPHIC: Photo, tyler mallory for The Washington Post, Hillary Clinton joins Jeremy Cockerham, Jewellianna Palencia and other children of staff members at Georgetown University Medical Center for a reading by popular children’s author Maurice Sendak.

So it sure looks like the part about children of staff being used as props is accurate. Even the most hardened Hillary defender has to ask the question: Why go all that way to a children's hospital to meet with healthy children of staffers?

Did the photographer (Ron Edmonds) stray from the script?

(Is he still alive? <- joke)

[doug from upland]

ALSO FROM YOUR SEARCH: HEADLINE: FROM THE TOP:Capital Diary

GRAPHIC: PICTURE CAPTION, Saturday, January 11, 1997 FROM THE TOP: Capital Diary ILLUSTRATION: BW photo by RON EDMONDS/Associated Press First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and author Maurice Sendak read his ``Where the Wild Things Are’’ and discuss the importance of reading with patients Friday at Georgetown University Medical Center. Status: Not Found

YES, they were to discuss the importance of reading with patients, not healthy children of the staff