Claude Monet Sunflowers painting
Lord Frederick Leighton Leighton Flaming June painting
government office. She is the first U.S. first lady to be elected to Congress or to any public position. The new senator got big bear hugs from some of her colleagues who voted to convict the president. Republican Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, at 98 the oldest Senate member, was particularly effusive, walking from behind his desk in the front row to grasp Mrs. Clinton by the waist with both hands as she stepped away from the central desk where she was sworn. For once, the president was on the sidelines as the first lady took center stage. At the traditional reenactment of the ceremony for official pictures, which took place amid the red brocade draperies in the smaller Old Senate Chamber, Clinton held the gilt-edged Bible while his wife placed her hand upon it.
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