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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> geysers-bounces@lists.wallawalla.edu
[mailto:geysers-bounces@lists.wallawalla.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Greg W<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 17, 2009 9:23 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> geysers@lists.wallawalla.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Geysers] Did anybody on this list experience when Mr. Clinton
visited there?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"'>Did anybody on this list experience when
Mr. Clinton visited there?</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Just for perspective's sake?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Greg Walljasper<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I remember in August 1995 President Clinton visited the
Upper Geyser Basin. Clinton celebrated his birthday on August 19<sup>th</sup>,
a Saturday. I remember this as we both share the same birth date. I think I had
more fun though. I remember one morning I was on Geyser Hill when it was closed
by the secret service. Because we were already on the Hill, we were allowed to
stay. We were waiting for a possible Aurum when the secret service made a tour
of the Hill. I believe Mr. Michael Finley, the Park Superintendant escorted
them. I think Hillary and Chelsea were going to visit the Hill but they
didn’t make it as far as Aurum. Our view was limited from that location.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Bill Clinton was down with the masses at Old Faithful but
all we could see were hoards of people. Bill was somewhere in the center of the
masses.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Some gazers that were there during that presidential visit
that I recall were Kyle Ross, Dave Leeking, Steve Warnock, cousin of the
Emperor, John<span style='color:black'> Rinehart, Steve Robinson, Phil Landis,
the Cross family, the Strassers, Rocco Paperiello, </span>Tom and Ann,
and others I’m not sure about. The days were filled with noisy
helicopters and high flying single engine planes. The presidential party was
going back and forth between Grand Teton and Yellowstone over a period of
several days. Other than Geyser Hill, I never had a problem going anywhere I
wanted to at that time.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On the 19<sup>th</sup>, our shared birthdays, I was waiting
for Grand to erupt. At about 1830, Grand gave me a great birthday present as it
had a beautiful 4-burst eruption in the evening sun with rainbows. After the
conclusion of Grand, Steve Warnock walked up to me with a Hostess cupcake and a
single candle in it. He barked to everyone it was my birthday (he remembered
from a conversation we had the previous May) and tried to light the candle. It
was impossible with the light breeze blowing. Anyway, he and about 40 tourist
and other gazers sung happy birthday to me. Tom Hougham came up and shook my
hand and Kyle Ross told me that Grand gave me the best present of all and I
agreed. Too bad the President couldn’t have seen this. He could have
gotten hooked. That was exactly 14 years from this writing.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Mike Newcomb<o:p></o:p></p>
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