Thomas Jefferson is widely thought to have taken his Black slave as a
mistress, at the capitol as well as at home. According to a PBS
documentary, Jefferson died in debt to the tune of around $250,000 because
he refused to give up the lifestyle of a wealthy manored landowner.
A historian has apparently documented the activities of Lyndon Johnson (long
before his presidency) and others wandering cemeteries registering dead
voters. A year or two ago Newt Gingrich boasted to the media of having sex
on the desk in his office. How times have changed!
All humans are flawed, including the great. History will judge the caliber
of Bill Clinton's presidency, but in the meantime let's try to make the
context of our assessments as accurate as possible.
Linda Defendeifer
University of Illinois
> ----------
> From: Wendy Johnson[SMTP:WJOHNSON@bowlesrice.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 24, 1998 8:51 AM
> To: tas@hafa.net.gu; SERPM1@kitch.com; r.huttner@law.unimelb.edu.au;
> law-lib@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: Re: a comment re Clinton troubles - An Australian Comment
> Thereon -Reply -Reply
>
> I am most embarrassed to be an American through all of this nonsense.
> Why any American would want a President who has such little respect
> for them is beyond me. The fact that he holds the same office that
> Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson once held makes me sick.
> Those were great men and great leaders...they were looked up to and
> deserved the title "President of the United States of America."
>
> As if participating in these extra-marital acts weren't bad enough, he
> commits felony perjury lying about it UNDER OATH and by trying to
> coerce others to lie as well. He must think the American public consists
> of nothing but morons. (And apparently it does if you watch the polls.)
> He is a disgrace to this country, and I would be laughing out loud at
> Americans, if I were Austrailian or any other nationality.
>
> I agree we should put this behind us and get on to other, more important
> matters.... impeach him now, so that we can put this embarrassment
> behind us and get on with our lives.
>
> Wendy Johnson
> SPEAKING ONLY FOR MYSELF
>
> >>> "Mary Margaret Serpento" <SERPM1@kitch.com> 09/24/98 08:58am
> >>>
> Please don't confuse the media with the American public-at-large. Quite
> a
> few of us feel the same way you do. What really annoys me is the
> waste of
> >$40 M of my hard-earned tax dollars on this. And legislative time and
> resources diverted from matters like WIPO and the budget.
>
> Juste mes deux centimes,
>
> Mary Margaret Serpento
> Law Librarian
> Kitch Drutchas Wagner & Kenney, P.C.
> serpm1@kitch.com
>
> >>> Ron Huttner 09/23/98 09:17pm >>>
> Tim Stewart wrote:-
>
> >I guess it's all in the eye of the beholder.
> >
> >All I could find on the web site was stuff like this.
> >
> >Anyone have the dates of the Hillary stories?
> >
> >
> >Regards
> >Tim Stewart
> >Agana, Guam
>
>
> Dear American Law-Libbers and Americans in general,
> I'll undoubtedly get flamed for this, but I simply couldn't care less.
> Have
> any of you got the *FAINTEST* idea just how the rest of the world sees
> your
> current preoccupation with WJC's bj's, transcripts, videos etc ?? Over
> here
> you are increasingly looking infantile and appalling. Are Americans not
> interested in really *important* issues ? The environment ? Poverty ?
> Human
> Rights ? Racial Discrimination etc. In Australia we have a most important
> Federal Election coming up on Saturday 3 October - but wretched Bill and
> Monica have forced the election coverage off the front pages of our
> newspapers - to the total detriment of things that really matter. Could
> you
> ***PLEASE*** put Bill and Monica to bed.
> Singly or conjointly. By the way - is there any truth in the rumour that
> Andrew LLoyd Webber has teamed up with Paul McCartney and is just
> completing the libretto and score for "The Starr Report - The Musical" -
> with Whoopi Goldberg as Betty Currie, Linda Lovelace as Monica, and
> Robert
> Redford as Bill ???
>
>
>
>
> Ron Huttner
> Lecturer In Computerised Legal Research
> Faculty Of Law
> University Of Melbourne
> r.huttner@law.unimelb.edu.au
> "Internet Sites For Lawyers" - http://www.viclf.asn.au/research.html
>
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