Michelle Obama reportedly brought a hostess gift to coffee at the White House on Tuesday: a journal and pen for Laura Bush, who sold her memoir to Scribner for $1.6 million. (First Lady Hillary got $8 million). As surely has been pointed out by others, perhaps the bargain rate for Bush was due to her life being scooped by the Curtis Sittenfeld's novel, American Wife. Anyway, it was a lovely gesture...or, for those in the know, a sarcastic dig, as in "Good luck, sucker; it's not as easy as it looks." Though I suppose it's an entirely different thing to "write" a memoir than it is to actually write a memoir.
So let's go with choice (a) Mrs. Obama is a gracious lady.
She could have even wrapped the present up with Aretha's hat on top! Don't you love that fabulous hat?
2 comments:
No I do not :)
aretha franklin is a notoriously bad tipper. i'm sure that hideous hat cost as much money as she saved over the years by not tipping her servers.
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