I remember that - it burned me up that Bush did not make an issue of that vandalism.
When he decided to sweep that under the carpet in the name of a new tone in politics I knew we were in trouble.
Probably the worst damage they did was to switch all the phones around. In our system, removing a phone from its jack for more than a certain number of minutes causes the extension assigned to that jack to evaporate, and it has to be reassigned at the server, even though the wires are still connected to the panels. Thank God the little weasels didn't have keys to the closets, or they'd have pulled the wires out of the patch panels (if they'd been able to recognize them). I bet the White House phone team was ready to go to their houses with ballbats.