[Scholastic]

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You should have heard the Sinkmiester's answer when she asked him about the nonsense the radical conspiracy theorists were putting out about the national parks being taken over by the UN.

[JohnGalt]

"The local prosecutor did conduct an investigation based on what was within the jurisdiction of state law. The rest of it was under the jurisdiction of the United States attorneys who were appointed successively by previous administrations. We had nothing - zero - to do with it, and everybody who's ever looked into it knows that."


That is a gem; that local prosecutor/US Attorney Clinton is reffering to was none other than the current head of the DEA Asa Hutchinson who had the largest cocaine smuggling operation in the country running under his nose.

[TBall]

Thanks for the inclusion and thank goodness that truth is more absolute.

[HAL9000]

Office of Former President William Jefferson Clinton
New York, New York
For Immediate Release
January 8, 2003

Statement Of William J. Clinton On The Passing Of Sarah McClendon

I was very saddened to hear of the passing of Sarah McClendon, a remarkable journalist who covered more Presidents than anyone in American history. Few women covered the White House when Sarah arrived in 1944 and wrote about Franklin D. Roosevelt. Since then, presidents and White House correspondents came and went, but for decades there was nothing to keep Sarah McClendon from doing her duty, reporting the news for her readers.

Time never diminished Sarah's feisty spirit or her quest for the facts. She never held back. All the trappings of the presidency did not sway her in the least. And all of us who called on her in news conferences did so with a mixture of respect and fear, I suspect, because we would never quite know what she might say. But whatever it was, she brought such enthusiasm and tenacity to the issue at hand that I couldn't help but admire her spirit. She didn't just ask questions. She demanded answers. Answers to questions that may not have dominated conversations inside the proverbial Beltway, but were very much on the minds of American families. She had a way of cutting through the process stories and insider gossip to ask about real issues that mattered to real people.

My thoughts are with Sarah's family and friends at this moment of loss. And I pray that the legacy of her full life will comfort them. Her voice will be missed at news conferences. Her stories will be missed by her readers. But I hope St. Peter is prepared for the kinds of questions that nearly a dozen presidents had to face. Because for Sarah McClendon, I imagine, Heaven is a place where her every question gets a good answer.

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