-Caveat Lector- Bard -----Original Message----- From: Carolyn Hart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 3:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [piml] CLINTON OBSESSED WITH 14-YEAR-OLD GIRL: REPOST [Free Republic] Strange story--what 55-year-old President would write that many letters to an eighth grade girl? Gives one the creeps. Carolyn Tuesday, July 6, 1999 L O C A L N E W S Local News Index | Local News Archives C-J Extra | The Courier-Journal Home Page Loyal young friend cherishes Clinton's personal letters to her By MICHAEL QUINLAN, The Courier-Journal LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Meghan Johnson, 14, stood in the bright sun at Blue Grass Airport yesterday morning next to local politicians and business leaders waiting to greet President Clinton, who was making a stop on his way to Eastern Kentucky. Meghan, a soon-to-be-freshman at Madison Central High School, was wearing a T-shirt that said, "First Pen Pal," and she held another T-shirt for Clinton. Printed on the back were the words: "Meghan's Pen Pal." Meghan and the president have been exchanging letters since she met him on the campaign trail in 1996, during a stop in Ashland. Since then, Clinton has written the Richmond girl 35 letters. When Clinton walked off Air Force One, he gave Meghan a hug that she would later call the "presidential gut squisher." Clinton then looked at his present and burst out laughing, and he had one of his photographers snap a picture of him holding it up. Clinton chatted for three or four minutes with Meghan and her parents, Keith and Mary Johnson of Richmond, before boarding a helicopter to fly to Jackson County. The blossoming of this unlikely friendship has meant a trip to the Oval Office for Meghan and her family, and for a boy she knew who was dying of cancer. It has led to gifts from Clinton. But what Meghan treasures most are the letters -- like the two-page letter he wrote her two days before the House voted to impeach him, when he thanked her for being a loyal friend. And lastly, the friendship involves one heck of a fish story. More on that later. The first meeting came in Ashland during Clinton's railroad train campaign swing. Meghan had seen Hillary Clinton at a Lexington bookstore earlier that year. Her parents thought it would be a good experience for her to see the president, too, to "give me something to talk about when I grow up." Meghan was at the rally holding a sign that said, "I'm a Kid for Clinton," when Clinton pointed her out to a Secret Service agent and had her brought on stage. Later, backstage, Meghan gave Clinton a letter she'd written him that included a $4 donation. Clinton wrote her a letter thanking her for the donation and her letter. Meghan was so impressed that she named her new betta fish "Bill," in honor of the president. Then she wrote a speech for her 4-H class about how she came to name her fish after the president. She won a blue ribbon for the speech and wrote Clinton telling him about it. He wrote her back and invited her and her parents to the Oval Office, where they listened to him deliver one of his radio addresses and then "hung out with him for about 20 minutes," Meghan said. They kept up the letter-writing. Meghan would write Clinton about her family and friends and her interest in playing the flute. She said that Clinton would sometimes write about current events, but mainly it was about his interest in playing the saxophone and other personal things that Meghan refuses to discuss. "We write about our love of music," Meghan said. "I told him that when he's done being president that we need to make a CD together, with me on the flute and him on the saxophone." Meghan said that Clinton has confided in her and discussed personal things, but she steadfastly refuses to discuss any of the details. "He has a wonderful sense of humor, I can say that," Meghan said. "But I wouldn't feel right talking about the personal things." Meghan said that Clinton came through like a true friend when one of Meghan's friends developed bone cancer in 1997. Meghan asked Clinton to write her friend, and he did. Meghan's friend's cancer is now in remission. But there was another child at the same hospital who was suffering greatly. Meghan wrote to Clinton about the boy, and Clinton invited the boy and his family to the White House. The boy has since died. "President Clinton has really been a friend to me," Meghan said. "He's very thoughtful." Mary Johnson said her daughter was disappointed with Clinton over his affair with Monica Lewinsky. But her loyalty never wavered, she said: "Meghan said that she knew that he was a good person but that she'd learned that even good people do bad things and make stupid mistakes." It was during that scandal that a neighbor of the Johnsons lost control of his car and drove it into their house, crashing into the wall outside Meghan's room. The impact shattered Meghan's aquarium. "It was a hectic scene," Mary Johnson said. "We were on the carpet trying to scoop up Bill before he died. We saved him." Meghan wrote Clinton about it and entitled her letter "Bill the Comeback Fish." "She told the president, don't worry about the scandal," Mary Johnson said. "She told him that Bill the Fish survived and so would he." 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