Clintons Shipped Furniture Year Ago
White House Usher Doubted Ownership
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A51211-2001Feb9?language=printer
Thursday, 8 February, 2001
Clintons return disputed gifts
Gift list:
Denise Rich: Coffee tables and chairs, $7,300
Ronald and Beth Dozoretz: Dining table, server and golf clubs, $7,000
Steven Spielberg: China, $4,920
Ted Danson and Mary Steenburger: China, $4,800
Jack Nicholson: Golf club, $350
Sylvester Stallone: Boxing gloves, $300
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1160437.stm
Cloud follows Clinton
Mr Schier said taking the White House furnishings was seen as “tacky and indefensible” by the Washington establishment.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1168075.stm
Controversy dogs Clinton outside White House
“Finally, the president’s exit with thousands of dollars worth of gifts also was criticized, especially after some donors said the gifts were donations to the White House itself — not to the former first couple.”
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/02/12/clinton.controversy/index.html
G.O.P. Inquiry Lists Gifts To Clintons in White House
October 10, 2002
“Denise Rich, Malcolm S. Forbes, Nelson Mandela and other friends and supporters of the Clintons showered the couple with roughly $1 million in previously unreported gifts during the Clinton presidency, according to documents released by Republican Congressional investigators.”
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9806E6D9163AF933A25753C1A9649C8B63&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/C/Clinton,%20Hillary%20Rodham
In 2002 the House Government Reform Committee issue a report of their investigation. You can read it on Thomas:
“PROBLEMS WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL GIFTS SYSTEM House Report 107-768”
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