Mayor Willie Brown of San Francisco, known as quite the connoisseur of creature comforts, offered a critique of the Lincoln Bedroom in the White House after it was revealed that he was one of the Clintons' 938 overnight guests. For one thing, he noted, the mattress was lumpy.
"You have to step up to get in [the bed]," the mayor told the Associated Press, "and it's not terribly comfortable." Brown said he cleaned the place out of "everything that wasn't tied down," but he left the towels because they were worn and didn't have a White House imprint.
3/24/97
Insight, March 24, 1997:
