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To: i-node who wrote (148140)	7/12/2002 1:20:56 PM
From: semiconeng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573696

But NEVER, to my knowledge, was there any documented or even alleged vandalism under previous [adult] administrations. ---Really? Pranks by an administration that is leaving office are not unheard of. In 1993, when Clinton aides arrived at their White House offices, they found desks upended, headsets glued to telephones and bumper stickers poking fun at the new president" (Robert Pear, The New York Times, June 4, 2001). loper.org; ---Remind me, Who was President before Clinton took office??? --- And even more interesting: No truth in White House vandal scandal, GSA reports By DAVID GOLDSTEIN - The Kansas City Star Date: 05/17/01 22:15 WASHINGTON -- The General Services Administration has found that the White House vandalism flap earlier this year was a flop. The agency concluded that departing members of the Clinton administration had not trashed the place during the presidential transition, as unidentified aides to President Bush and other critics had insisted. But the vandal scandal, tales of torn up offices and items stolen from the presidential jet, was the hottest story in town during the early days of the Bush administration until White House furniture and last-minute pardons pushed it off the front page. "I think it was this calculated effort to plant a damaging story," said Alex S. Jones, director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University. "There was a sort of fertile ground for believing anything bad." Typical was Tony Snow, a syndicated columnist and former presidential speech writer for President Bush's father, who wrote that the White House "was a wreck." He also said that Air Force One, after taking Clinton and some aides to New York following the inauguration, "looked as if it had been stripped by a skilled band of thieves -- or perhaps wrecked by a trailer park twister." He went on to list all manner of missing items, including silverware, porcelain dishes with the presidential seal and even candy. "It makes one feel grateful that the seats and carpets are bolted down," Snow fumed. Except none of it happened. An official at Andrews Air Force Base, which maintains the presidential jets, told The Kansas City Star at the height of the controversy that nothing was missing. Bush himself acknowledged the same a few days later. kcstar.com;