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3. I've eaten Jelly Belly in the presidential box at the Kennedy Center ...
Tue Feb 23, 2016, 09:39 PM
Feb 2016

Staffers can use the boxes in the different theaters when the president is not using it. This was during Bill Clinton's time in the White House. I went with a friend on the White House staff to a couple of productions.

There is a little anteroom with a fridge in it. All that is kept stocked in there was jelly beans and Korbel splits of champagne in a special presidential labeling.

The box was surprisingly unglamorous, though when one sits in it, one gets ogled by everyone else in the theater that assumes that the occupant must be a Washington power.

Edit to add: there were also special presidential M&Ms, of the peanut variety. Maybe that is from Carter.

Not much of a meal, though.

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