IT’S NOT THE WORST IDEA I’VE EVER HEARD.
It’s not the WORST thing in the world for the President of the United States to want a better facility for entertaining international dignitaries than an 18th century banquet hall…
And it’s certainly not the WORST thing for the President of the United States to want to put up some kind of monument to celebrate 250 years of the country… I guess… I mean… are we gonna do this every fifty years? But still…
But I’m reminded of that story about the music executive who visited the home of Ike and Tina Turner, which had just been extensively and meticulously redecorated… to IKE’S specifications, including a wall-sized mural of lovers necking in the ocean for the kitchen. When others asked him to describe the house afterwards, the executive said…
“Who knew you could spend $20,000 at Woolworth’s?”