[Ads-l] The Oval

[Jonathan Lighter]

'The President's Oval Office.'

"Common sense" says this should date back to the John Adams administration,
but I've only begun hearing it in the last few months.

In fact, CNN commentators now seem to prefer it to the long, boring, stodgy
old "Oval Office."

JL



-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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