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Scrapbook Bill Clinton's Last Booty Call In order to move out of the White House in style (and not violate Hillary's Senate gift limit), the Clintons rattled their begging bowls last year, and...

...Dale Chihuly, Seattle...
...350...
...No word yet on what will happen to the bookmaking operation (the Pentagon) that got Airman Tinnelle hooked and then took all her money...
...4,967...
...1934 check signed by Harry Truman...
...China...
...The following is the itemized list attached to Schedule B of Bill Clinton's financial disclosure form, filed January 19, the day before he left office...
...4,787...
...Mary Steenburgen and Mr...
...Ashcroft had vilified Judge Ronnie White for selfish political ends...
...Golf clubs...
...Boxing gloves...
...David Rowland, Springfield, Ill...
...Jill and Ken Iscol, Pound Ridge, N.Y...
...Edith Wasserman, Beverly Hills, Calif...
...5,000...
...5,767...
...Sgt...
...Dale Chihuly glass sculpture...
...Golf driver...
...According to the AP, uniformed personnel and civilian Pentagon employees dropped $1.2 billion worth of their paychecks into 8,000 slot machines at 94 U.S...
...and Mrs...
...Ms...
...Two drawings of Mongolian landscapes...
...22,000...
...499...
...4,920...
...2,500...
...Robert Berks, Orient, N.Y...
...China...
...Richard C. Helmstetter, Carlsbad, Calif...
...Martin Patrick Evans, Chicago...
...Framed tapestry...
...Denise Rich, New York...
...Iris Cantor, New York...
...300...
...And on its second page the very next morning, the Times ran one of its always illuminating corrections: "A front-page news analysis article yesterday about the nomination of John Ashcroft as attorney general misidenti-fied the senator who suggested that Mr...
...Paul Goldenberg, La Habra, Calif...
...7,000...
...Dining table, server, and golf club...
...David Kilgarriff, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom of Great Britain...
...300...
...Jack Nicholson, Beverly Hills, Calif...
...Italian leather box...
...Scrapbook Bill Clinton's Last Booty Call In order to move out of the White House in style (and not violate Hillary's Senate gift limit), the Clintons rattled their begging bowls last year, and their friends came through...
...Televisions and DVD player...
...300...
...Joe Panko, Concord, N.C...
...Golf driver...
...2,500...
...Steve Mittman, New York...
...4,944...
...Seems like only yesterday, doesn't it...
...The form specifies: "This list includes gifts received over the last eight years, but which were not accepted by the Clintons until last year...
...Sofa...
...350...
...Colette D'Etremont, New Brunswick, Canada...
...Mr...
...Antique book on President Washington...
...450...
...2,110...
...Golf driver and golf balls...
...Travel humidor, china cabinet, chandelier, and a copy of President Lincoln's Cooper Union Speech...
...19,900...
...Painting of New York City...
...David Martinous, Little Rock...
...Golf driver...
...Photograph of Duke Ellington...
...Allen Whiting, West Tis-bury, Mass...
...China...
...Flatware...
...Barbara Allen, Belfast, Northern Ireland...
...Robin Carnahan and Ms...
...Weiner, scholar of "race relations," would restrict his search for refuge from America only to those parts of the world ("Europe, canada, or Australia") dominated by non-Spanish-speaking white people...
...Dennis Doucette, Coral Gables, Fla...
...Apple Jr...
...Two carpets...
...3,650...
...595...
...Stuart Shiller, Hialeah, Fla...
...Bud Yorkin, Los Angeles...
...2,993...
...and Mrs...
...Cashmere sweater...
...Two sofas, an easy chair, and an ottoman...
...340...
...and Mrs...
...650...
...300...
...Golf bag, shirt, canvas bag, and book...
...Ely Callaway, Carlsbad, Calif...
...Kitchen table and four chairs...
...Bill Brandt, Winnetka, Ill...
...Louis, Mo...
...Needlepoint rug...
...It was Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, not Alan J. Dixon, who left the Senate in 1993...
...Flatware...
...500...
...4,992...
...Bruce Bernson, Santa Barbara, Calif...
...Bust of President Truman...
...Three golf putters...
...Pantsuit and sweater...
...Brian B. Ready, Chappaqua, N.Y...
...300...
...Tinnelle had written dozens of bad checks to sustain a compulsive year-long gambling binge that cost her $28,000...
...Steve Leutkehans, Morton Grove, Ill...
...Ronald and Beth Dozoretz, Washington, D.C...
...Nina Ganci, St...
...and Mrs...
...Golf putter...
...Myra Greenspun, Green Valley, Nev...
...300...
...2,843...
...Vinad Gupta, Omaha...
...We'll Even Take Them to the Airport The following classified ad appears on page 50 of the latest New York Review of Books: THE SCRAPBOOK is curious why young Dr...
...Margaret O'Leary, San Francisco...
...On the front page of its January 19 edition, the Times ran one of Apple's long "news analyses," this one explaining how John Ashcroft's confirmation hearings reveal that black voters—just between you and me—are disinclined to support President Bush's policies...
...Ken Burns, Walpole, N.H...
...1,353...
...Painting...
...500...
...1,300...
...2,400...
...425...
...310...
...Nevertheless, The Scrap-BOOK bets Apple has never in all those many years tasted so perfectly prepared a dish of crow as was recently served him by his own paper...
...and Mrs...
...6,282...
...450...
...650...
...Lynn Forester, New York...
...1,588...
...military installations around the world in 1999...
...No reportable gifts were accepted in 2001...
...650...
...Katsuhiro Miura, Hyogo-Ken, Japan...
...Sylvester Stallone, Miami...
...Fraud, Waste, and Abuse Senior Airman Lenyatta Tinnelle, court-martialed at Naval Air Station Keflavik in Iceland, has been sentenced to a month's hard labor, two months of restricted activities, and a reduction in rank, the Associated Press reports...
...Dining chairs...
...Painting titled "Oyster Pond...
...1,000...
...Flatware...
...500...
...524...
...and Mrs...
...Georgetown University Alumni Class of 1968...
...The Honorable James Lee Witt, Alexandria, Va...
...300...
...Cowboy boot...
...7,375...
...Morris Pynoos, Beverly Hills, Calif...
...Dendez Badarch, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia...
...Hal Hunnicutt, Conway, Ark...
...1,170...
...and Mrs...
...Cashmere shawl and flatware...
...Steven Spielberg, Universal City, Calif...
...Mrs...
...Painting of Buddy...
...Golf driver...
...Glen Eden Carpets, Calhoun, Ga...
...Bill Knapp, West Des Moines, Iowa...
...3,000...
...China and a jacket...
...Vo Viet Thanh, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam...
...Joan Tumpson, Miami...
...and Mrs...
...9,683...
...Mrs...
...and Mrs...
...Dale Chihuly basket set...
...Golf irons...
...of the New York Times's Washington bureau has eaten many a fine meal in his days as a pavement-pounding reporter...
...360...
...Paolo Papini, Florence, Italy...
...Total value: $190,027 Johnny Apple's Lost Decade The proudly epicurean R.W...
...Two coffee tables and two chairs...
...Lamps...
...Two sweaters...
...Walter Kaye, New York...
...5,000...
...Jan Munro, Sarasota, Fla...
...38,000...
...Leather jacket...
...Painting titled "Flag With Heart...
...Perhaps he is actually a Republican...
...Arthur Athis, Los Angeles...
...The Scrapbook figures it will be both conservative and compassionate for our new president to wipe out this vice on military bases for good...
...China...
...Ted Danson, Los Angeles...
...Brad Noe, High Point, N.C...
...Watercolor of the Clinton ancestral homestead...
...800...
...Flatware...
...Ghada Irani, Los Angeles...
...Lee Ficks, Cincinnati...

Vol. 6 • February 2001 • No. 20


 
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