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Clinton sent only 2 e-mails as Prez

January 29, 2004 09:33 IST
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Guess how many e-mails Bill Clinton sent out in eight years at the White House?

Just two.

Compare this to the 39,999,998 (that is two short of 40 million) e-mails dispatched by the then US president's staff.

Wait a minute.

Correct that to one e-mail.

Because the first e-mail was just a test mail.

No, not to check if the e-mail system worked.

In Clinton's case, it was to check if the most powerful man on the planet -- a Rhodes Scholar, and widely acknowledged to be the brightest man to occupy the Oval Office in the 20th century -- knew how to operate e-mail!

John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth, received the only e-mail Clinton sent as president.

His staff helped the president sent the e-mail when the septuagenarian Glenn returned to space as a crew member on the space shuttle.

Clinton, who never misses a chance to shake hands or kiss babies or plain schmooze, apparently preferred the personal touch to the cold, distant world of cyberspace, something he follows to this day.

 

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