- It was never a book deal, it was a covert contribution. It is no diffeerent than all those furniture gifts.
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- Designs on designs...
- Although a reliable source had previously warned me about the wife's designs on the people's designs -- she had apparently acquired the nasty habit of pilfering from the White House drapery fund -- when I created the following metaphoric musing a year before the clintons "moved," I never imagined that she would -- that they would -- in real life -- in real time -- actually swipe the sofa.
- Smaller objects neatly tuck-able in nuncupative deals & unnumbered Swiss accounts, without question...
BUT THE SOFA??
- Jan. 1, 2000
- hillary's "interior" design scheme
- (an animated how-to)
by Mia T
copyright Mia T 2000
- The White House Booty
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- Letters .. thanked Lee and Joy Ficks for their 1993 donation of a kitchen set to the White House. Joy Ficks said she was surprised to hear the Clintons are keeping the kitchen set as a personal gift.
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- • $19,900 two sofas, an easy chair and an ottoman from Steve Mittman,
- New York.
- • $3,650 kitchen table and four chairs from Lee Ficks, Cincinnati.
- • $2,843 sofa from Brad Noe, High Point, N.C.
- • $1,170 lamps from Stuart Schiller, Hialeah, Fla.
- • $1,000 needlepoint rug from David Martinous, Little Rock.
- Following are gifts the Clintons received in 2000 and are paying for:
- • $9,433 china cabinet, chandelier and a copy of President Lincoln's
- Cooper Union speech from Walter and Selma Kaye, New York.
- • $7,375 two coffee tables and two chairs from Denise Rich, New York.
- • $7,000 dining room table, server and golf club from Mr. and Mrs. Ron
- Dozoretz, Washington.
- • $6,282 two carpets from Glen Eden Carpets, Calhoun, Ga.
- • $5,000 rug from Martin Patrick Evans, Chicago.
- • $5,000 china from Mr. and Mrs. Bill Brandt, Winnetka, Ill.
- • $4,994 flatware from Ghada Irani, Los Angeles.
- • $4,992 china from Iris Cantor, New York.
- • $4,967 flatware, Edith Wasserman, Beverly Hills, Calif.
- • $4,967 flatware, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Pynoos, Beverly Hills, Calif.
- • $4,787 china from Mary Steenburgen and Ted Danson, Los Angeles.
- • $4,920 china from Mr. and Mrs. Steven Spielberg, Universal City,
- Calif.
- • $3,000 painting from Joan Tumpson, Miami.
- • $2,993 televisions and DVD player from Paul Goldenberg, La Habra,
- Calif.
- • $2,400 dining room chairs from Arthur Athis, Los Angeles.
- • $2,110 china and jacket from Jill and Ken Iscol, Pound Ridge, N.Y.
- • $1,588 flatware from Myra Greenspun, Green Valley, Nev.
- • $595 pantsuit and sweater, Margaret O'Leary, San Francisco.
- • $524 golf driver and golf balls from Richard Helmstetter, Carlsbad,
- Calif.
- • $500 antique book on George Washington, Mr. and Mrs. Bud Yorkin, Los
- Angeles.
- • $499 golf driver from Ely Callaway, Carlsbad, Calif.
- • $450 leather jacket from Vin Gupta, Omaha.
- • $350 golf driver, Jack Nicholson, Beverly Hills, Calif.
- • $350 framed tapestry, Mr. and Mrs. Vo Viet Thanh, Vietnam.
- • $340 two sweaters from Robin Carnahan and Nina Canci, St. Louis.
- • $300 flatware from Colette D'Etremont, New Brunswick, Canada.
- • $300 painting of Buddy, Brian B. Ready, Chappaqua, N.Y.
- Chair Lift
- Among the gifts that former president Bill Clinton says he is keeping as
- personal presents he accepted last year are $28,000 worth of furnishings
- that documents and interviews indicate were given to the National Park
- Service in 1993 as part of the permanent White House collection...
- Two of the furniture makers whose donations Clinton took with him on
- leaving the White House last month say they gave them to the White House
- as part of a widely publicized, $396,000 redecoration of the executive
- mansion and not to Clinton personally.
- "When we've been asked to donate, it was always hyphenated with the
- words, " 'White House,' " New York manufacturer Steve Mittman said of
- his family-owned business, which gave two sofas, an easy chair and an
- ottoman, worth $19,900 and listed by Clinton as part of the gifts he
- took with him. "To us, it was not a donation to a particular person."
- personal presents he accepted last year are $28,000 worth of furnishings
Sen. Clinton made another assertion - one that is equally misleading.
She contends she was not obliged to report the first Leiber bag she received "because it was received before the Clintons entered the White House."
But this bag, valued at $3,500, was received after the election and during the transition and therefore obviously was related to the Clinton presidency.
- Designs on designs...
- But he said the Socks purse was given to Clinton during the transition in late 1992, before her husband took office...
TRANSLATION: An earlier example of the clinton post-election/pre-swearing-in klepto-bribery scheme...
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