Dispatches Home Sweet White House

House notes: Looking up at Bill and Hillary Clinton in the soft glow of the State Dining Room, Abraham Lincoln watching in oil. Clintons both beam, seem to want to keep the lease, giving contributors and helpers in the latest White House refurbishing a tour of the place and telling them of their joy at living there. It is leavening and deepening to be with memories of the greats, says Bill. Hillary has read bios on all the former First Ladies, keeps William Seale's The President's House -- two volumes of rich history -- handy and well thumbed. Bill can even...

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