And away we go!
And the Doc is in.
An offer from a former senator and current president of the United States is similar to an offer from a former Senate Majority Leader and current Vice-President of the United States (1961).
In the second case it was an offer that you could not refuse -- and live.. LBJ offered USDA official Henry Marshall promotions to move from Texas to Washington, D.C. USDA HQ.
Mr. Marshall would no longer be going after the criminal wrong-doing of Billie Sol Estes and would exit the superhighway leading to Billie's buddy LBJ.
A short time later Mr. Marshall committed suicide by knocking himself unconscious, managing somehow to breath through a hose attached to the tailpipe of a pickup truck, and -- all else failing -- shot himself several times with a bolt-action rifle. (In the 1980s with new information our rulers said, well maybe it wasn't suicide.)
What about refusing Obama's offers? I guess we won't know. Apparently they were accepted.
BTW, unless memory fails I recall that the federal employees who gave us Ruby Ridge (and Waco maybe) were quietly rewarded with cash and promotions at a ceremony held at Tinker AFB, OK.