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A recent email bulletin from Tony Gosling included this: “Bill Clinton is a freemason (I have been shown about 20 photographs of him in his regalia from the age of 21).” [1] Twenty years ago, this kind of claim was difficult to check. These days, you ask Google and you discover that Clinton was a member of a Masonic youth movement, the Order of DeMolay, and, indeed, is a member of the DeMolay Hall of Fame, although he apparently never joined the adult organisation. [2]

So, might Clinton be a secret adult Mason? Given the estimated 50 million dollars the Republicans spent poking through Clinton’s life during the so-called Whitewater affair of the early 1990s, this strikes me as unlikely.