- 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.
White House Gifts List |
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- • $19,900 two sofas, an easy chair and an ottoman from Steve Mittman,
- New York.
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- • $3,650 kitchen table and four chairs from Lee Ficks, Cincinnati.
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- • $2,843 sofa from Brad Noe, High Point, N.C.
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- • $1,170 lamps from Stuart Schiller, Hialeah, Fla.
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- • $1,000 needlepoint rug from David Martinous, Little Rock.
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- Following are gifts the Clintons received in 2000 and are paying for:
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- • $9,433 china cabinet, chandelier and a copy of President Lincoln's
- Cooper Union speech from Walter and Selma Kaye, New York.
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- • $7,375 two coffee tables and two chairs from Denise Rich, New York.
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- • $7,000 dining room table, server and golf club from Mr. and Mrs. Ron
- Dozoretz, Washington.
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- • $6,282 two carpets from Glen Eden Carpets, Calhoun, Ga.
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- • $5,000 rug from Martin Patrick Evans, Chicago.
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- • $5,000 china from Mr. and Mrs. Bill Brandt, Winnetka, Ill.
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- • $4,994 flatware from Ghada Irani, Los Angeles.
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- • $4,992 china from Iris Cantor, New York.
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- • $4,967 flatware, Edith Wasserman, Beverly Hills, Calif.
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- • $4,967 flatware, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Pynoos, Beverly Hills, Calif.
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- • $4,787 china from Mary Steenburgen and Ted Danson, Los Angeles.
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- • $4,920 china from Mr. and Mrs. Steven Spielberg, Universal City,
- Calif.
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- • $3,000 painting from Joan Tumpson, Miami.
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- • $2,993 televisions and DVD player from Paul Goldenberg, La Habra,
- Calif.
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- • $2,400 dining room chairs from Arthur Athis, Los Angeles.
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- • $2,110 china and jacket from Jill and Ken Iscol, Pound Ridge, N.Y.
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- • $1,588 flatware from Myra Greenspun, Green Valley, Nev.
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- • $595 pantsuit and sweater, Margaret O'Leary, San Francisco.
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- • $524 golf driver and golf balls from Richard Helmstetter, Carlsbad,
- Calif.
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- • $500 antique book on George Washington, Mr. and Mrs. Bud Yorkin, Los
- Angeles.
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- • $499 golf driver from Ely Callaway, Carlsbad, Calif.
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- • $450 leather jacket from Vin Gupta, Omaha.
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- • $350 golf driver, Jack Nicholson, Beverly Hills, Calif.
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- • $350 framed tapestry, Mr. and Mrs. Vo Viet Thanh, Vietnam.
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- • $340 two sweaters from Robin Carnahan and Nina Canci, St. Louis.
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- • $300 flatware from Colette D'Etremont, New Brunswick, Canada.
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- • $300 painting of Buddy, Brian B. Ready, Chappaqua, N.Y.
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- Chair Lift
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- 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...
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- 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.
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- "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."
Gifts Were Not Meant for Clintons, Some Donors Say |
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ASHINGTON, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- President Clinton briefly interrupted his Thanksgiving holiday weekend at Camp David Friday with a quick trip to the White House to gather data he wants to study in planning his second inauguration and then returned to the mountaintop retreat.
