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(The Milton referred to here is Joyce Milton)

From an article at http://www.conservativenews.org/InDepth/archive/199905/IND19990507c.html

Another trait the Clinton's have in common, Milton found, is their ability to avoid the truth. "They both lie, even when they don't have to," Milton told CNS.

Milton referred to a much talked about incident in 1994 with the First Lady's personal White House Christmas tree was decorated with what many considered pornographic ornaments. Milton said the entire episode "ought to be the candidate for the 'my most embarrassing moments' section of Hillary Clinton's memoirs."

Mrs. Clinton directed her staff to ask art students for decorations on the theme of "The Twelve Days of Christmas." Milton said that in response the staff received a variety of sexually explicit ornaments which the staff hung on the tree anyway. Among the items hung on the tree, according to Milton, were a "mobile of 'twelve lords a-leaping,' each in full erection; a variety of ornaments fashioned from crack pipes and condoms - Mortified volunteers broke some of the more embarrassing items rather than hang them."

In the course of writing her book, Milton asked the First Lady's staff about the incident, which they denied. Milton was surprised by the denial.

"It happened, people saw it and have pictures of it. Gary Aldrich [then a secret service agent] saw the tree and used his pictures in his book," Milton told CNS. "I understand the staff even joked about it when they had a going away party for Hillary's Social Secretary Ann Stock. But when I asked Ann Stock about the incident, she said it never happened and the story was a total fantasy. I find that really ridiculous, the denial of it is indicative of something and you really have to wonder what is going here. Why lie about so many things?"

It happened, people saw it and have pictures of it. Gary Aldrich [then a secret service agent] saw the tree and used his pictures in his book," ... "I understand the staff even joked about it when they had a going away party for Hillary's Social Secretary Ann Stock. But when I asked Ann Stock about the incident, she said it never happened and the story was a total fantasy. ..."

Another FReeper and I attended the same political conference in D.C. as Gary Aldrich did in September of 1996. While there, I purchased a copy of his book, "Unlimited Access - An FBI Agent Inside The Clinton White House", which he autographed for me on 9-13-96.

I'll quote a few excerpts from pages 103 to 107 of that book here:

Gary Aldrich:

"...Christmas 1993 had been pretty stark, but then, it's always hard to hang wooden fertility symbols and lucite blocks with old computer parts; the branches keep bending and breaking."

"... as I waited for a stop light, I looked over at the national Christmas tree. What a sight it was. Gone were the multicolored Christmas balls and other ornaments that traditionally symbolized the holidays. Gone was the star from the top of the tree, symbolizing the night when Christ was born. Instead, on the top of the tree was a large stainless-steel ball pierced by colored shafts. It looked like the ball that sat atop the Daily Planet building in the Superman comic books I read as a child. This ball and the square and triangle tinfoil ornaments made the tree look like a robot. I couldn't wait to see what the Clintons and their friends would do the following year."

Fast forward to Christmas 1994: "..Gary, you and your team will work on the Blue Room tree."

"..We gathered around folding tables to unpack the ornament boxes. It took about ten seconds to get the first reaction. 'What in the world?' Then another. 'What the hell?' Then another. 'Look at this thing! What is it?' 'Hillary's ornaments is what!' ..."

"...the theme is The Twelve Days of Christmas, as interpreted by art students from around the country. ... I couldn't believe what I was looking at. ...'We can't hang this stuff on any White House Christmas tree! This is a bad joke!"

"Gary, the orders from the First Lady's Office are to hang these. .."

"[one ornament was] ... a mobile of twelve lords a-leaping. ... [consisting of] tiny clay male figurines. Each was naked and had a large erection. ..."

"Some of the ornaments were ... crack pipes hung on a string. Some ..were constructed out of various drug paraphernalia, like syringes, heroin spoons, or roach clips ... colorful devices sometimes adorned with bird feathers and used to hole marijuana joints. ... Three French hens were French-kissing in a menage`a trois ..."

"I went over to one of the tables I hadn't looked at yet. What's this? Of course. Two turtle doves ... joined in the act of bird fornication. ... I picked up another ornament that was supposed to illustrate five golden rings. ... [one of the volunteers] was glad to explain [that] the golden rings I was holding were sex toys known as 'cock rings' ...".

Another mystery ornament was the gingerbread man. How did he fit into The Twelve Days of Christmas? Then I got it. There were five small golden rings I hadn't seen at first: one in his ear, one in his nose, one through his nipple, one through his belly button, and, of course, the ever-popular cock ring."

"Here was another five golden rings ornament - five gold-wrapped condoms. ... There were other condom ornaments, some still in the wrapper, some not. Two sets had been blown into balloons and tied to small trees. ..."

"When we were through, the first lady's tree had all the beauty and majesty of a landfill."

"Hillary's social secretary , Ann Stock, came down, carefully looked at the tree and its decorations and pronounced it 'perfect' and 'delightful'. ... She thought it was 'neat'."

"I came back later and took some pictures of the tree and 'Mr Gingerbread Man' ... I knew nobody would believe this without photographic proof."

"I was interviewed by Martha Stewart, who was doing a Christmas special to be aired later on a major network morning show. ... As she looked around the tree she made 'hmmmmmm' sounds. If she didn't like the tree, she was very diplomatic about it. ..."

"Aside from displaying sex toys and self-mutilation devices on the nation's Christmas tree, there was another 'change' in the way the White House celebrated Christmas. Hillary decided to delete spouses from the invitation-only staff Christmas party. ..."

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So in addition to the pictures Gary Aldrich took, Martha Stewart was one of the eye witnesses. Hahaha