Is President Clinton a freeman?

I can't help myself and here I go again. “Was Bill Clinton is a freemason? 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 organization.

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. Nor is it really intelligible. In the USA as in Germany, the Masons aren’t a secret organization. Some members wear lapel pins on holiday in the States – and a Masonic Website will take you to the sites of the various Grand Lodges of the USA. Is it any more interesting that Clinton joined a Masonic youth group than if he’d joined the youth movement of – say – the Elks, another of these American fraternal organizations? Who really cares? Besides I'd rather be doing fun Stuff!