worked on a piece of furniture for the White House. She was personally very active in the design of it, and showed a fair knowledge of architecture and design.

I'm not a big fan on the whole (she's definitely knock out pretty!) but the builder, whom I know pretty well came away impressed by the engagement. I have no idea of his politics---I'm not really sure he even engages in them. His family has built furniture for the White House probably going back to the Carters. I sat in a small workshop in which he Powerpointing how the piece was made. Pretty cool to have a front row seat, so to speak.

As a amusing aside, there was a huge stash of very fine mahogany lumber in an estate that the widow offered for sale to members of our club. Whatever boards we didn't take the White House had offered to buy. So we can claim to have some lumber we literally got dibs over the White House on! It's very fine lumber of a species that is no longer easy to source.