Returned Gifts Were for White House Use
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About $28,000 worth of household items that former President Clinton and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton removed from the White House and then returned were government property, not personal gifts meant for them, the government has found.
“It appears that everything on the list is White House property,” said Jim McDaniel, speaking for the National Park Service, which conducted the examination.
The Clintons returned 19 items--sofas, lamps, an easy chair, a kitchen table and other household goods--after some donors said their gifts were for the White House, not the former first family.
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