Alleged Clinton Mendacities

[davemarc]

At 11:37 AM 6/14/96 -0700, David wrote:
>[Bob Norton sez]
>>We should not forget that when Bill Clinton went to France for the 50th
>>anniversary of D-Day, he had some of his people knock over grave markers so
>>that he could be photographed straightening them back up. He also stole the
>>pebbles on some tombstones so that he could be photgraphed putting them on
>>other ones in a lame imitation of an old Jewish ritual to honor the dead.
>>This was observed by several Congressmen who commented on the matter before
>>Congress but the news media chose not to touch this one at all. 
>
>Clinton is certainly no prize in the honesty department, but I'll stick 
>by my statement that Reagan's mendacity remains unrivaled.  Clinton was 
>going for a bit of cheap personal aggrandizement, which is sort of par 
>for the course among politicians; Reagan rewrote the history of World War 
>II, and fabricated an entire episode of his alleged life, among many 
>other whoppers that Clinton (and company) would never have the 
>imagination to think up.
>
Is anyone else here interested in confirming whether or not Clinton knocked
over grave markers in the manner described above?  Can anyone here confirm
it or provide more source information?

On the subject of the pebble-moving...that's not *necessarily* a great
trangression.  As I understand it, the ritual involves *placing* a pebble or
rock on the stone.  It's inevitably removed by someone else.  (I suppose the
removers are usually employees of the cemetery.)  Sometimes it's actually
quite challenging for visitors (particularly those who are physically
challenged, but I supposed some might be politically challenged) to take a
pebble or stone from any place *but* a nearby site.

davemarc