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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zoltan! who wrote (57284)	7/22/1999 12:53:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Clinton caught lying again - will Breathless Dan report it? Misremembering President Clinton misspoke yesterday when he said he was the first president to invite John F. Kennedy Jr. to the White House. Christopher Matthews, a former Washington bureau chief of the San Francisco Examiner and now host of a television talk show, recounted a 1971 White House visit by Jacqueline Kennedy and her two children. President Nixon invited President Kennedy's widow and children, Caroline, 13, and John Jr., 10. The occasion was the unveiling of portraits of JFK and Jackie. Mr. and Mrs. Nixon showed the Kennedys around the home where the children had once romped. The family then had dinner, a story John F. Kennedy Jr. later related on Mr. Matthews' cable-television show. Caroline bet him that he would either spill his milk at the meal or his shirttail would be untucked, the 35-year-old Kennedy said on the show, aired in 1995. "I'd gotten through most of the dinner and my shirttail was in and my milk was upright. I think we were at dessert when something caught my attention and my milk went all over [Mr. Nixon's] lap." In his 1996 book -- "Kennedy & Nixon: The Rivalry That Shaped Postwar America" -- Mr. Matthews said Mrs. Kennedy later wrote the Nixons: "Thank you with all my heart. A day I always dreaded turned out to be one of the most precious I have ever spent with my children." The Kennedy clan -- including John Jr. -- also gathered at the White House in 1981 for a ceremony hosted by President Reagan, who presented a gold medal to Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy in honor of her husband's service to the country. In a news conference yesterday, Mr. Clinton said he was the first to invite Mr. Kennedy to the White House. "John Kennedy had actually not been back to the White House since his father was killed until I became president. . . . He came back to the Oval Office where he saw the desk that he took the famous picture in, you know, coming through the gate for the first time since he was a little boy. . . . "I asked him if they'd like to go upstairs and he said he would. So I took him upstairs and showed him the residence, which he had not seen since he was a tiny boy," Mr. Clinton said. "I think that he really wanted to kind of come to terms with all of it. And I think he and Caroline, they were delightful young people and they had a great time here that night and Hillary and I loved having them here. It was quite a great night." washtimes.com