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To: CIBvet
Remember that Vince Foster was the Clinton's personal lawyer and close friend for many many years.

(I assume you are referring to Bill Clinton.)

This is disinformation.

There is no evidence that Bill Clinton and Vince Foster were close friends, or even friends. Foster was 19 months older than Clinton. They lived on adjoining properties in Hope until Clinton was four years old. Then Clinton moved to the other side of town for two years before moving to Hot Springs 75 miles away.

They didn't grow up together. They didn't go to high school together. They didn't go to college together. They didn't go to law school together, and they didn't go to Moscow together.

If you go to a decent library you can find books which record the words of our Presidents. These have speeches, press conferences, etc. In the 1993 volume for President Clinton you will not find a single sentence where he uses the words friend and Foster together. (There was an impromptu press conference near a watermelon stand in Hope the day of the Foster funeral though.)

Several years ago when the Hubbster (who was an adult friend of both Clinton and Foster) was hawking his book, I had an opportunity to ask him about the Clinton-Foster friendship on Bob Grant's radio show with Grant playing straight man: "Where are we going with this, Mike?" he asked. I explained and the Hubbster didn't challenge anything I said. When I asked the Hubbster about the sort of things that Foster and Clinton did together, his answer to me was, "How would I know? I wasn't there." (Consider the absurdity of this statement from similar supposed relationships in your own life.)

One final note about my conversation with the Hubbster: When I mentioned golf as an example of something that Clinton and Foster might have done together, the Hubbster told me, "Vince didn't play golf." I find it more than interesting that the rotund one is on record describing events on that mysterious weekend where he "cheered up" Foster on Maryland's Eastern Shore immediately preceding Fosters demise. He says that he and Foster "hit golf balls."

It's easy to tell when these guys are lying, which is almost any time they open their mouths.

ML/NJ

23 posted on 07/27/2002 2:31:13 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: ml/nj
Oh my gosh. I swallowed that Vince and Bill Clinton boyhood chums story hook, line and sinker. It never occurred to me, "not one time" (hehe), that that wasn't true.

I can't thank you enough for your post on this thread. Very eye-opening.
27 posted on 07/27/2002 7:06:37 PM PDT by Auntie Mame
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To: Fracas
FYI!
28 posted on 07/27/2002 11:20:15 PM PDT by PhiKapMom
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To: ml/nj; aristeides; Plummz
Thanks for your addition to this thread. I fell for the "buddy" story all along, until now.
33 posted on 07/29/2002 8:25:27 PM PDT by Fred Mertz
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