NATION IN BRIEF : WASHINGTON, D.C. : White House Pays Navy for Towels
A White House memo asking presidential aides to pay for towels and bathrobes they may have taken from an aircraft carrier was disclosed by Rep. Dan Burton (R-Ind.). Forty White House aides and 23 reporters were on the George Washington during President Clinton’s recent visit to Normandy, and the memo said that ship’s officers discovered that 84 towels and robes, valued at $562, had vanished. After Burton distributed the memo to reporters, a White House spokesman said that a top Clinton aide had already repaid the Navy.
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