Big Cheeses
The recent institution of Big Block of Cheese Day at the White House is real life imitating a fictional White House. TV's West Wing evoked the real life incident of a huge block of cheese delivered to Andrew Jackson's White House in 1835. At 1400 pounds it was four feet wide and two feet tall. It was not the first big cheese at the White House. President Jefferson enthusiastically received a mammoth block of cheese in 1802. At 1200 pounds, it took two years to eat. Two years after Jackson got his cheese, there was still a lot left. He invited the public to have a whack at the wheel.
Reagan outdid Jackson in 1981 when he distributed 30 million pounds of stockpiled government cheese for free.
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