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First Lady Skeds Were Sanitized

Posted Mar 20, 08 2:12 PM CDT in Politics 

(Newser) – Schedules from Hillary Clinton’s time as first lady don’t reveal much, Newsweek reports. The mound of documents consists only of her public engagements, rather than her private calendar, meaning many potentially revealing details are left out. The thousands of pages don’t, for example, mention her four-hour Whitewater testimony—but do note her appearance on Oprah the same month.

Records for the day of Bill Clinton's testimony on Monica Lewinsky show only a trip to Martha’s Vineyard. “This stuff has been sanitized,” said a member of the conservative group that sued for the documents' release. The schedules were checked by a Clinton loyalist before being made public; a 2002 directive from Bill said White House investigations, among other topics, were taboo.

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Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., addresses a campaign rally at Capital High School in Charleston, W.Va., Wednesday, March 19, 2008.   (AP Photo/Bob Bird)
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton appears in this 1996 file photo.   (Getty Images)
First Lady of the US Hillary Clinton (L) arrives at a US Federal courthouse to testify before a federal grand jury in connection with the failed Whitewater land deal in Washington, DC, Jan. 26 1996   (Getty Images)
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