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Wonder if it was fair trade?
Rebecca Clayton’s post on Al Kamen’s What Was In That Office Anyway? contest, speculating on what Cheney may have burned the other day, led me also to this item:
GOP mega-contributor Sam Fox, the Swift boat backer who received a controversial recess appointment to be ambassador to Belgium, has arranged for special, one-kilo (2.2-pound) bars of superb, dark Belgian chocolate, stamped with the State Department seal, to be given as Christmas presents.
The Belgians are speculating that President Bush, a renowned chocophile who shopped for chocolates on trips to Belgium in 2001 and 2005, will most surely find one of these under the tree Christmas morning.
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How much would all this cost? Goossens wouldn’t touch that one, though he noted that his 52-year-old family company considered it a “prestige project.” That probably means Fox got something of a break on the price. And this is a nearly two-ton purchase.
Let’s do some cogitating. Goossens’s chocolates sell for a little more than $50 a pound in this country. So each bar would cost about $110.
Perhaps Fox could make such a bulk purchase for $150,000.
Be sure to read the whole column, if only just to find out what Gordon Liddy planned to burn.
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