And the "legacy" just keeps on a building.
Posted on 02/27/2002 4:06:39 PM PST by cody32127
Several "priceless" items given to President Clinton and his wife Hillary have turned up at the William Jefferson Clinton Library Foundation amid allegations that the former first couple failed to report a numerous gifts during their eight year White House tenure.
"The gifts are personal and priceless, including a gold, silver and jewel-encrusted Bahrani Horse presented to Clinton by the Amir of Bahrain," reported the Associated Press Wednesday.
Other items currently on display as part of a preview of an exhibit that will draw on more than 75,000 gifts and artifacts removed from the White House include a formal White House dining display, a Gibson guitar signed by B.B. King, a metal sculpture of a University of Arkansas Razorback pig and a Tour de France bike given by Lance Armstrong.
Two weeks ago the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee revealed that the Clintons accepted $361,968 in unrecorded gifts worth more than $250 - the threshold above which reporting is legally required.
Previously unknown White House gifts include Ming Dynasty jewelry, Ferragamo silk ties, hundreds of cigars and expensive watches, reported the New York Post at the time.
Though it's not clear whether any of the gifts currently on display at the Clinton Library are among those cited by the House Committee, one former White House insider claimed last year that the ex-first couple took many unrecorded gifts with them when they left office.
In February 2001 Linda Tripp told CNN that the Clintons set out to evade White House gift laws from the very beginning.
"Gifts were coming in from everywhere," Tripp said. "I know on many occasions [the gifts] went to them." In some instances the gifts taken by the Clintons were "opulent," she added.
"I was brought in because of my institutional memory and my knowledge of procedure," Tripp said. "I'm filling out the gift unit form ... and they didn't want any part of that."
Before being asked to stay on with the Clinton administration, Tripp had worked in the first Bush White House.
One room in the White House "was floor to ceiling stacked with gifts," she recalled. "In the Clinton White House ... most of it didn't make it to the gift unit," where gifts were supposed to go after they were properly recorded.
But the former White House worker said first family consigliere Bruce Lindsey ordered her to nix the gift-recording procedure with the words, "Take off your Bush hat. This is the Clinton White House."
"There's a Satanic chant, homosexual orgy, and animal worship ritual schedualed at midnight, too. Will you be attending?"
I believe that the song ends with "But you can leave your shoes on."
-PJ
Of course, you can leave your hat on.
-PJ (trying to be cute once to many times)
"The most ethical administration in history....."
That clinton claim and "Islam is Peaceful Religion" are about equal in believability.
I believe that the song ends with "But you can leave your shoes on."
That's a great one, PJ, even if you got it backwards!
Does this include Bill's Adult World Gold MasterCard?
Unfortunately, we know what he did with the cigars.....
And the "legacy" just keeps on a building.
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