-Caveat Lector- Linda Tripp is a disgrace to all humanity. By the way, this article is grossly inaccurate. It states that she was fired on Inauguration day, yet starts with her claims about logging in gifts from heads of state. Tripp was transferred to the Pentagon in 1994 when her boss, Bernard Nussbaum, resigned. Samantha http://www.newsday.com/ap/national/ap22.htm Tripp: Clintons Changed Gift System by DEB RIECHMANN Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton did not always fill out the proper gift forms for presents received at the White House and kept some of them for themselves, according to Linda Tripp, whose tapes of conversations with Monica Lewinsky led to his impeachment. ''Most of it didn't make it to the gift unit,'' Tripp said Friday night on ''Larry King Live,'' describing a roomful of presents that had been sent to the White House by heads of state in honor of Clinton's inauguration in January 1993. ''I know on many occasions it went to them.'' She said that when she was filling out proper gift forms for logging in presents sent to the White House, that she was told, in so many words: ''Take off your Bush hat. This is the Clinton White House.'' ''They didn't want any part of that,'' she said. Tripp, who worked in the Clinton White House for a year and a half, taped her conversations with Lewinsky that helped lead to Clinton's impeachment. Tripp was fired from her $100,000-a-year political position on Inauguration Day. The Clinton transition office had no comment on Tripp's remarks. After being criticized for taking $190,000 worth of china, flatware, rugs, televisions, sofas and other gifts with them when they left the White House, the Clintons announced last week that they would pay for $86,000 worth of gifts. Then on Wednesday, the Clintons returned 19 items after some donors said their gifts were for the White House, not the former first family. The goods -- lamps, tables, chairs, sofas and prints -- were put on a truck in Chappaqua, N.Y., where the Clintons have a house, and shipped to a warehouse in a Maryland suburb of Washington where White House items are stored. After concluding that the items the Clintons took with them were the property of the White House, not personal gifts they were entitled to keep, the National Park Service on Friday released an inventory of the items returned. Questions remain about why the items ended up with the Clintons. The Clintons have refused to comment on the National Park Service determination. But early this week, the former president's office issued a statement saying every item accepted by him and the former first lady, who is now the junior Democratic senator from New York, had been identified by the White House gift office as a present to them. ''Gifts did not leave the White House without the approval of the White House usher's and curator's offices,'' the statement said. White House officials who handle gifts to presidents have refused to comment. Jim McDaniel, the National Park Service liaison to the White House, said Thursday that he had found no evidence of clerical errors that could have caused items meant for the White House to have been placed on the list of personal gifts the Clintons could chose to keep. The list released Friday did not give the value of the items returned. About a dozen of the gifts in question, however, were itemized on the Clintons' final financial disclosure report. The total value of those gifts was about $28,000. According to McDaniel's list, the Clintons returned: --Gaming table inlaid with presidential seal, checkerboard and backgammon board --Sofa upholstered in teal green with bold floral --Cream-colored TV armoire with green trim, painted with red berries on branches --Brass floor lamp --Pair of table lamps with antique finish --Print of a boy reading with a woman on a porch swing at a beach --Print of houses with American flag on a porch --Coffee table painted antique green --Round center table with dark green edge --White kitchen table --Four white chairs with woven sections and striped seat cushions --Two sofas, easy chair and ottoman upholstered in bold blue floral ^------= On the Net: National Park Service White House Web page: http://www.nps.gov/whho/ AP-NY-02-09-01 2152EST< <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. 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