Post-election mail brings weapon of mass disappointment.(News)

0 Comments | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), March, 2004

Byline: Chuck Goudie I'm not sure what White House trinkets the Clintons gave to overnight guests of the Lincoln Room. But I do know that anybody who attends a White House function and has their picture taken with the president will receive a nice color 8-by-10 print in the mail. After attending a Midwestern correspondents and editors lunch in the State Room at the White House during the Reagan administration, I received a personally signed picture of the president and me shaking hands at our luncheon table.

I had expected the same thing from President Clinton a few years later after covering a small NAFTA briefing, but received just an unsigned photo. Maybe it was because when that picture was snapped I was staring at Mr. Clinton's Save-the-Children...