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- From: nvonstein@memstvx1.memst.edu
- Newsgroups: rec.pets.cats
- Subject: Re: Cat Fight Over Socks, Clintons' Pet
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.130336.4147@memstvx1.memst.edu>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 13:03:36 -0600
- References: <1992Nov19.134747.14109@gvl.unisys.com>
- Organization: Memphis State University
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- In article <1992Nov19.134747.14109@gvl.unisys.com>, martha@gvlf7-o.gvl.unisys.com (Martha Sherman) writes:
- >
- >
- > This is from this morning's Phila. Inquirer (11/19/92). I thought it was
- > rather humorous: (please excuse my typos, I don't have a scanner;
- > paraphrased without permission...)
- >
- >
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- > President-elect Bill Clinton is furious at news photographers for luring
- > Socks, his daughter's cat, into camera range after he gave the press specific
- > orders to lay off the cat.
- >
- > One Clinton staffer said the offenders used a form of catnip to lure Socks
- > outside the gates of the Arkansas Gov's Mansion.
- >
- > Photos appeared in many newspapers as Clinton headed to Washington to meet
- > with President Bush. They angered both Chelsea & her father, aides reported.
- > "The photographers don't have the common decency to leave a little girl's pet
- > alone," one staffer said.
- >
- > A previous warning had been issued last Saturday: "Special note to all press
- > from the highest authority --- don't touch the cat again." Clinton's warning
- > was prompted by a photo of the new first feline being held aloft by a television
- > cameraman that appeared in many newspapers last Friday. Daughter Chelsea
- > was upset by the photo, which was but one example of the impact her
- > father's new job is having on her life.
- >
- > A source close to Clinton said grimly that there may be retribution for
- > tampering with the cat.
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- >
- > So, cat lovers, what would be an adequate retribution for those pest
- > photographers??? >:)
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- Wouldn't it have been funny if Socks had hurled a furball on the photographer?
- ACK! SPLAT!
-
- Nancy
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- >
- >
- > Martha H. Sherman
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- > I speak only for myself, and sometimes I even wonder about that...
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