71“Mr. President, we can have the event coincide with your birthday celebration. It would spike interest, attendance and the amount we would raise for your reelection,” White House Chief of Staff, David Bass said.
“I don’t need to be involved with the schedule, do I? Just coordinate it with my calendar,” President Jackson Kilgore replied.
Kilgore’s hair had turned white in his early thirties during his second term as Maryland’s senator. His personal and professional geography established him as the ultimate Washington D.C. insider.
“But sir—” George Wellington, a senior political advisor started.
“Put it on my calendar,” the President reiterated, “but make sure it’s a quick back and forth. I don’t want to spend a whole day on this.”
“Mr. President, we can—” the Chief of Staff tried.
