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To: winodog
I Beg Your Pardon
Questions about campaigns and elections.
By Ken Rudin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Friday, January 26, 2001

Question: Former Arizona governor Fife Symington, a Republican, was pardoned by President Clinton for offenses involving his activities as a real-estate developer. Is he related to the late Stuart Symington of Missouri, who served in the Truman administration and was later a senator and 1960 presidential hopeful? Also, I have heard that Fife Symington once saved a young Bill Clinton from drowning. Is that true? – Frank Ferrari, Mesa, Ariz.

Answer: Yes on both counts. First, John Fife Symington III is a distant cousin of Stu, who served four terms in the Senate as a Democrat from 1953 through 1976. And second, when they were college students in the 1960s – Fife at Harvard, and Clinton at Georgetown – Symington saved Clinton at a beach party in Massachusetts, when young Bill was being pulled away by a strong tide.

14 posted on 03/11/2003 3:01:29 PM PST by Liz
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To: Liz
Thats strange that I have never heard of that story.
It would seem bj bill has lots of stories that dont make headlines.
16 posted on 03/11/2003 6:18:40 PM PST by winodog (The problem is sin. The solution is Christ.)
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