"Because Ike likes to pretend he is still in the Army and if I want to be Vice President I have to kiss up to him. So just eat your steak and shut up."
"I still understand why we can't be inside. I mean Mamie is eating inside. Mrs. Hoover is inside. Even Marget Chase Smith is inside. Why are we the only ones outside. Well us and the Stassen's."
"Because Ike likes to humilate his subordinates. He learned that from MacArthur in the Philippines when he was his aide. He had to dress up like a geshia and serve tea to Mac and his cronies. So now its his turn to humiliate people."
"That's not very Presidential."
"Of course it is Pat. Most Presidents revel in humiliation. William Howard Taft would sit on his Cabinet members. Calvin Coolidge would have silent game contests. Teddy Roosevelt would tweak their nipples and if they cried he would fire them. Maybe someday a President will humiliate people in public and not care what people think. At least I hope so."
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Wow, Margaret Chase Smith. Had to look her up in Wiki. I mean I knew the name but that's all. Turns out she was a Senator from Maine for like forever and was just about as liberal as Susie Collins. I was sure she came from New England royalty but it turns out her Dad was a barber and her Mother worked in a New England shoe factory.
Taft could sit on 2 Cabinet members at once. Wilson would hit them with a ruler and make them sit in the corner. It was history teacher in him.
Truman would forcibly measure their inseams.
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