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Saturday, February 17, 2007

Colo. asked to return Clinton portrait - Yahoo! News

Colo. asked to return Clinton portrait - Yahoo! News: "DENVER - The National Archives and Records Administration wants the portrait of President Clinton now hanging at the State Capitol returned, but a brewing fight to keep it has united a Democrat and Republican, if only temporarily. The portrait has been on loan to the state for about 10 years, but the archives wants it back as it tightens up its loan requirements. So the registrar of the William J. Clinton Library in Little Rock, Ark., which is administered by the federal agency, told the state last summer that the portrait must be returned by March 30. Colorado may be able to keep the portrait until May, after the legislative session ends, but state Rep. Paul Weissmann, D-Louisville, said Friday that Colorado should fight to keep the portrait because he thinks the decision is 'stupid.' 'It will likely just be mothballed in Little Rock"

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