Bill Bennett: “the Senator from Kentucky reminds me of a similar individual in the State of Utah who constantly berates me every time…”

“the Senator from Kentucky reminds me of a similar individual in the State of Utah who constantly berates me every time he gets the opportunity on what he considers to be a desecration of the flag, which is the addition of gold fringe to the edge of the flag. He insists that has a particular legal implication and, indeed, went to the point of insisting that if a Federal judge presides in a courtroom where the flag has gold fringe on its edge, the actions of that Federal judge are not legal and that the flag, to be properly displayed, must have no gold edge. I noted on one of the rare times I have been in the Oval Office with President Clinton, the flag that hangs behind the President's desk has a gold edge on it. If indeed we were to come to the conclusion that that was a desecration of the flag and that all acts taken in the presence of a flag thus desecrated were illegal, then every bill signed by the President in the Oval Office under that definition would be illegitimate.”