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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (127148)2/14/2001 11:11:48 PM
From: Mr. Palau  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769670
 
"Andrea Mitchell, NBC, Jan. 25: "The Air Force will replace Air Force One glasses and four hand towels, apparently pilfered by passengers traveling with the Clintons on their last plane ride home."

Brit Hume, Fox News Channel, Jan. 25, "The raid that was conducted aboard that Air Force plane, the presidential plane, although it's not called Air Force One because the president was no longer -- Mr. Clinton, Mr. Clinton was no longer president -- on the last flight to New York when the blankets, pillowcases, silverware ..."

Kate O'Beirne, CNN, Jan. 27, "During Bill Clinton's final flight, the plane was stripped bare and not by sentimental staffers seeking mementos. Air Force One souvenirs were quickly posted for auction online. Why not make a final buck off the White House? Outrageous, but not surprising."

But the Air Force One story, as with the allegations of widespread White House vandalism, proved not to be true."

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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (127148)2/14/2001 11:12:48 PM
From: DMaA  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769670
 
It is hilarious that the same people who gleefully point to this episode as evidence of right wing hysteria over Clinton, were the same people who, when the stories came out, in knee jerk fashion, defended the alleged sacking of AF1 saying "So what? Everyone does that." It didn't seem farfetched to them either at the time.

dy said Air Force One was vandalized. They just took everything that wasn't nailed down.