Klarinet Archive - Posting 000529.txt from 2000/11

From: Sterkel Terrance-W15462 <T.Sterkel@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Presidential Saxophones
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 13:43:03 -0500

you are right. All gifts to the President fall under the Civil Service
law on this. To see how strange this can get, look at Jimmy Carter's
suit. President Carter got a bolt of fine Irish wool fabric from the
Irish Prime Minister. It was a custom design with very small "J"s and "C"s
inter
locked in a pinstripe pattern. (I would have loved to see it.) The
President had a suit made from the fabric, and wore it when Irish
dignitaries
visited. At the end of his term, he had to *buy* the fabric for the
*fair market value* of custom woven fabric, or return the suit to the
Archives.

P.S. The US Archives gets all this stuff. If it is in the Smithsonian, it
is on loan.

: -----Original Message-----
: From: Kevin Fay (LCA) [mailto:kevinfay@-----.com]
: Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 12:48 PM
: To: 'klarinet@-----.org'
: Subject: [kl] Presidential Saxophones
:
:
: Ed Lacy noted:
:
: <<<[W]e mustn't forget that President Clinton was a pretty
: fair blues tenor
: saxophonist at one time.>>>
:
: Michael Dukakis was a fair avocational trumpet player as well.
:
: There is one tangential aspect to all of this that bums me
: out, though. I
: recall an article in one of the music magazines describing
: the swag that
: protocol requires heads of state to "give" each other at
: state dinners and
: such. Apparently, President Clinton has been the recipient
: of a number of
: tenor saxophones, often highly engraved etc. for the
: occasion. I recall the
: number being over a dozen, and growing.
:
: Under U.S. law, he won't get to keep them -- gifts to
: government employees
: over a certain amount ($25, I think) are the property of the U.S.
: government. Consequently, there is a rack full of fine tenor
: saxophones at
: the Smithsonian. Pity they could not be donated to high schools.
:
: kjf
:
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