TV dinner; pointer to book review re White House

Doug Millison nopynching at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 21 13:40:49 CDT 2001


[...]_T.V. Dinners_, chapter thirty-four,
pinpoints the Eisenhowers's habit of eating T.V.
dinners when freed
from entertaining guests.  Two televisions were set up
side by side,
allowing the President and First Lady to watch their
personal
favorite broadcasts at the same time [...]

http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=9842998417684

John Whitcomb and Claire Whitcomb. _Real Life at the
White House:
Two Hundred Years of Daily Life at America's Most
Famous Residence_.
New York:  Routledge, 2000. x + 468 pp. Illustrations,
notes, and
index. $40.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-415-92320-4.

Reviewed for H-DC by Jennifer Hembree
<jenh118 at hotmail.com>,
University of Maryland, College Park


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