Goats, cows offered for Chelsea
"NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- A Kenyan says he offered Bill Clinton 40 goats and
20 cows for his daughter's hand in marriage five years ago -- and is still
waiting for an answer.
Godwin Kipkemoi Chepkurgor told the East Africa Standard newspaper last
week that he wrote to Clinton asking for Chelsea's hand in 2000 during the
then-president's visit to Kenya. Chepkurgor, a 36-year-old elected city
councilor in Nakuru, recounted writing to the U.S president through the Kenyan
government.
The electrical engineering graduate said he promised to pay his would-be
father-in-law 20 cows and 40 goats in dowry for his only daughter in accordance
with African tradition.
Chepkurgor said his letter praised Clinton's leadership and commended his
wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, for standing by her husband "like an
African woman" in the face of the Monica Lewinsky scandal."http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/07/27/clinton.kenya.ap/index.html
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