-Jimmy Carter was a bit of a stickler for keeping order, Walters admitted. Carter ordered that the White House thermostats stay at a chilling 65 degrees. Walters’ drafty office became a freezer. So he had the thermostat cover removed and the thermometer painted red to look as if it were 65 degrees. “We didn’t want to defy the president, but we didn’t want to freeze,” he chuckled.-
and being the knucklehead Carter was he never picked up on it I’m sure...btw- weren’t there reports that zero, who wants us off oil and is a global warming lunatic, kept the thermostat at 78-degrees??
LOL only in DC; people and their comfort zone are funny, I grew up in Texas (100 May thru Aug) and Colorado (-30 a good bit of Jan and Feb) and now live in San Francisco (please be kind, we are pilgrims in a heathen land) where it is pretty much 65 degrees 90% of the time; when it is 45 people wear heavy coats, when it is 85 they start fainting in the streets.