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- From: rjwill6@pbsdts.sdcrc.pacbell.com (Rod Williams)
- Subject: Clinton Gets Earful at Open House
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.163731.15843@PacBell.COM>
- Originator: rjwill6@pbsdts.sdcrc.pacbell.com
- Sender: news@PacBell.COM (Pacific Bell Netnews)
- Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, California
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:37:31 GMT
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- Today's (1/22/93) New York Times reported on the 3,000
- people who showed up at the White House yesterday to greet
- the Clintons and Gores..
-
- "Mr. President, I wanted to tell you I was so excited
- when I received my call," said Chris Henry, who like
- most of the visitors sent postcards to Washington and
- were notified last week that they would get tickets to
- meet Mr. Clinton. "And I wanted to call my parents.
- But they aren't talking to me for the last 11 years
- because I'm a lesbian. I hope your Administration
- will change that."
-
- A little further down the page...
-
- A gay man introduced his companion to the President as
- "my husband" (he greeted the man with a warm handshake).
-
- [...]
-
- The gay couple, Joshua Rodin and Dennis Layton of
- Washington, were so intent on capturing attention that
- they put out a press release with the title, "Clinton to
- host gay couple at the White House."
-
- "Clinton was not fazed at all," Mr. Rodin said afterward.
- "He was very warm and welcoming." He said he gave the
- President a red AIDS ribbon, that he "didn't put it on
- but slipped it in his pocket."
-
- And elsewhere...
-
- As the First Couple stood on an oriental rug, a Gilbert
- Stuart portrait of George Washington behind them and a
- log fire warming the oval room, they heard again and
- again about AIDS and gay rights, more than any other
- issues.
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