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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (264129)	6/15/2002 2:59:03 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Are you saying you've "never" complained about posters who name-call?

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (264129)	6/15/2002 3:08:04 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Hey flapjack, do you really believe Al Gore "inadvertently" packed away a priceless Lincoln Bust? Those priceless historical items in the White House are the American people's, not Al and Tipper Gore's. Did you hear about this on Dan Rathers nightly Democrat talking point show? Do you think it would have made headline news if this had been a Republican former VP? Cheney Inquiry Led to Gore Bust Friday, June 14, 2002 6:27 p.m. EDT newsmax.com Former Vice President Al Gore did not return a bust of Abraham Lincoln that he had "inadvertently" taken from the White House until Vice President Dick Cheney inquired about the missing item six months after taking office, a General Accounting Office report on the incident reveals. The GAO report on the episode was part of the investigation into allegations that Clinton-Gore staff vandalized the White House before turning it over to the Bush administration on Jan. 20, 2001. The investigation concluded that the former vice president kept the priceless White House sculpture until July 2001, when he was challenged by an unnamed Cheney counsel. The GAO said: "Regarding a Lincoln bust that two EOP staff told us was missing, but was subsequently returned, a former employee who also worked in the former vice president's transition office provided us with a copy of a July 6, 2001, letter that he received from the counsel to Vice President Cheney asking about the missing item. "The former employee said that, after receiving the letter, he located the bust at former Vice President Gore's personal residence and that he returned it to the White House on July 11, 2001. "The former employee also provided us with a July 11, 2001, letter to the counsel to the vice president, in which he wrote that 'it appears that the bust was inadvertently packed with the personal effects of Vice President Gore.' The former counsel to the former vice president told us that Mr. Gore did not pack his own items in his office at the end of the administration," the GAO concluded.