on Saturday became only the second president in U.S. history to be impeached by the House of Representatives, but he started the week on a normal note, holding morning meetings on the budget and sticking to a holiday tradition of helping the homeless and needy. He and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton ventured out to join volunteers at the Washington D.C. Central Kitchen, helping prepare lasagna to be distributed to homeless shelters throughout the city. Clinton joked that he and his wife received a good evaluation from the kitchen managers, who also help train unemployed people for jobs in the food service industry. The kitchen prepares nearly 2,700 meals a day that go to children‘s after-school programmes, senior citizen centres and homeless shelters. Clinton kept up the holiday spirit even when asked by reporters what the Senate could expect from him and his defence team as it prepares to try him on the two articles of impeachment voted by the House. "A few days to celebrate the season," Clinton replied. The president then turned to a more sombre matter, remembering the victims of Pan Am flight 103, which was destroyed over Lockerbie, Scotland by a terrorist bomb, killing 270 people. Clinton said if Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi failed to turn over the two suspects in the bombing for trial by February, he would seek tougher sanctions against the North African country. He said an offer by the United States and Britain to try the suspects before a Scottish court in the Netherlands under Scottish law was not negotiable. Clinton plans a full week of activities before taking time off to celebrate Christmas. On Monday night he hosted a holiday party for White House reporters. On Tuesday, Clinton plans to read a Christmas story to children at the White House. It is an annual event the president will use to highlight the issue of literacy and the need to encourage children to read. Clinton‘s strategy throughout the year has been to show that he was concentrating on the job he was elected to do, instead of on the sex scandal. "We work here every day no matter what‘s going on in the world, and we‘ll continue to," said White House spokesman Joe Lockhart.