Anyone with an inside contact at the White House?

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Anyone know how we could get some of this? The picture and text came from Yahoo! news.

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"Combination photograph shows back of U.S. $20 bill showing The White House with the 140-yr old Elm tree and workers at the White House clearing the fallen tree, which was knocked down by heavy winds in a storm in the Washington area overnight, June 26 2006."

I don't know what elm looks like but it doesn't really matter in this case.

Todd

PS - Is that a chipper that I see in the picture?!

(edit - added picture and text from Yahoo! news since the link would have gone bad soon)
 
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I called the National Parks Service this morning when I heard about this. Yep, that's a chipper in the background. Their policy is that all fallen limbs/trees are shredded on the spot.

Good eye on the news, though!
 

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bah! too bad someone couldnt obtain some of that wood. i dont like it when the chipper shows up[:(] i wonder if people would believe that it was from the elm tree in front of the white house. those pens would sell!
 

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Isn't that just typical? Running a 400+ billion dollar deficit and they throw away...heck I don't even want to know how many blanks. Did I hear right from the news...this tree is actually pictured on the back of the $20? Very sad.
Wait a minute! DON'T WE ALL OWN THOSE BLANKS ANYWAY???
 

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Originally posted by vbatwork
<br />Isn't that just typical? Running a 400+ billion dollar deficit and they throw away...heck I don't even want to know how many blanks. Did I hear right from the news...this tree is actually pictured on the back of the $20? Very sad.
Wait a minute! DON'T WE ALL OWN THOSE BLANKS ANYWAY???

Yes, you can have your 1/300,000,000 share of the tree. If my calculations are correct, you can make a toothpick from your part of the tree.
 

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Bill,
The thought that went through my mind was that if it's "chipped", there might be pieces big enough to do 1/2 of a slimline. If I could just get a few of those, I could still make a pen out of it! I ALMOST asked the woman with whom I spoke, but didn't want to look like THAT big of a pen geek.
 

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It looks like that chipper is only for smaller limbs...maybe they didn't chip the main trunk???

There is hope my friends!!!
 

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Nah the whole tree goes, I called too. Makes me feel a whole lot more attached to the piece for Red Oak I have from the White House lawn.

Drew
 

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They were probably afraid of what someone wood find out from that tree. Alot of security risk there, and couldn't chance someone barking out a secret.
 
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