PRESIDENTIAL PERKS
One morning Thomas Jefferson woke up in a modest Washington rooming house, dressed, and then left the house in order to attend his inauguration as the third president. When he got back, duly sworn in, he found no space left for him at the dinner table. Quietly accepting the democratic principle of first come, first served, the president of the United States went up to his room without dinner. Little Brown Book of Anecdotes, Clifton Fadiman, Ed. p. 306.
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