Yep. They acted like Nancy Reagan committed a moral sin for accepting donated dinnerware.
Yes, I remember the press pillorying the Reagans for responding to some phony letter inquiry to the White House about what was their favorite dinner dish and some volunteer wrote “chicken a la king” or some such thing. The DC press (most of whom eat continually on expense account at fancy DC restaurants like The Palm where their crappy portraits grace the walls as regular customers) screamed about the “royalist” culinary tastes of the Reagans in hard economic times (those times look positively prosperous compared to today’s Obama economy). Anyway, the Reagans had to write a corrective letter to this bozo explaining that the volunteer letter responder had gotten it wrong and their favorite dinner dish was instead macaroni. I wonder if anyone will be writing letters to the White House about drinking $ 1,700 bottles of wine and if so, whether the “journalists” could care less?