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May 10, 2005

What is Jeff Greenfield talking about? (Clinton haircut edition)

In a Washington Monthly review of The Survivor by John F. Harris, Jeff Greenfield dredges up some Clinton-era propaganda:

Reading The Survivor is to be reminded of the sheer chaos that at times seemed to swamp the White House, from the superficial (sloppy dress,"boxers or briefs?," chronic tardiness, all-night pizza pig-outs) to the problematic (a $200 haircut on Air Force One, the Whitewater and travel office dustups) to the tragic (the suicide of Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster, one of Hillary Clinton's closest friends).

In fact, the $200 price for the haircut Clinton received on Air Force One is, like much of the story, undocumented or untrue. No one knows how much Clinton paid; the $200 figure -- Christophe's usual rate -- became attached to the story as if it were fact. (And, contrary to widespread belief, the haircut did not tie up air traffic at LAX.)

Greenfield should know better. But then again, if media elites actually cared about the facts, many Clinton-era urban legends would not still be conventional wisdom.

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