How to Be President: What to Do and Where to Go Once You're in Office

by Stephen Williams

Paperback, 2004

Status

Available

Call number

352.2370973

Publication

Chronicle Books (2004), Paperback, 128 pages

Description

Congratulations! You've won the election and taken your oath. You wake up on your first day in the White House--now what do you do? Where's the bathroom? How do you get breakfast? What time is your first meeting? When can you use Air Force One? Can you order a pizza from the Oval Office? What line do you use for personal phone calls? This fully illustrated, how-to, hands-on handbook explains the nuts and bolts of being the President of the United States. Discover how to read a teleprompter, greet foreign dignitaries, and light the White House Christmas tree. Learn where to sit at Cabinet meetings and whether you need to bring your own ball to the White House bowling alley. Your job benefits, vacation schedule, and all the other perks and duties are clearly explained in this indispensable manual. It's a tough job, and somebody's got to do it.… (more)

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LibraryThing member ALincolnNut
This little book is an amusing little diversion into the world of the life of the president. In short little bursts, the author answers vexing questions -- everything from making life and death decisions in the Situation Room to ordering take out food. Some of the information in the book is likely
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accurate; some of it is also clearly meant as a joke.

There are other serious books about the day to day aspects of presidential life. But for amusement, none top this tongue-in-cheek overview.
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ISBN

0811843165 / 9780811843164

UPC

765145105354
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