Word: ideas
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Beth A. Wargo, Crate & Barrel's assistant manager, said she had no idea how the fire started, but Reardon said that electrical problems probably caused the blaze...
...President Clinton latched on to a piece of the GOP's Contract With America Monday by endorsing legislation that gives adoptive parents a $5,000 tax credit and penalizes states that discourage interracial adoptions. White House spokesman Mike McCurry denied that the President was co-opting a Republican idea and said that identifying ways to help prospective adoptive parents overcome administrative obstacles has been a goal since the President entered office. But in wooing moderate Republicans, Clinton risks alienating a core of black constituents that oppose interracial adoptions. Opponents, such as the National Association of Black Social Workers...
...other insiders assert that the auction, while its public garishness might have mortified Jackie, was her idea. Nancy Tuckerman, Jackie's White House social secretary and close friend until the former First Lady's death in May 1994, told Time that "Jackie did mention in her will that the children, if they wanted to, should have an auction. She said that would be the practical thing to do." Tuckerman remembers accompanying Jackie on periodic visits ("she was sentimental about possessions") to storage rooms housing her belongings. "She would say to me, 'I keep thinking about my children with all these...
Pierre Salinger, J.F.K.'s press secretary, confirms that Jackie discussed the idea of an auction with her children. "There were a number of things that were not for sale, that were given to the kids," says Salinger. He adds that the children rigorously culled their mother's mountains of things to select important and appropriate items for the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston (which will also receive most of the $2.5 million from the catalog sales). In April 1995, Caroline and John donated a huge trove of items to the library, including Jackie's wedding dress, 38,000 pages...
Jackie had a brilliant marketing sense if she was involved with the idea of an estate sale, and I suspect she had a few thoughts on it before she died. It was brilliant to set the prices so low on everything. That way, everybody felt he or she could afford something. No one could accuse the Kennedy kids of greed, as it seemed rather generous of them to offer Dad's humidor for only a couple of thousand dollars. Then when it went for $574,500, it was like an enormous compliment to the Kennedy family: "We like...