>JFK was the most avid at this. I recall he had a particularly
>high-wattage assembly of cultural dignitaries at the White House
>once and delivered a line that someone had written for him about the
>gathering being the most impressive show of talent there since
>Thomas Jefferson had dined at the White House alone. The line is
>kind of spoiled, though, when you think that Mr. American
>Renaissance Man wouldn't have been dining alone, exactly, but
>surrounded, as always, by slaves.
Is that true? Were there slaves in the White House?
Doug