You’d think she’d be more worried about whether her husband will get indicted for war crimes.
But Laura has one curiosity about the Obamas that she cannot shake, friends said. Before leaving the White House, she spent her own money to have two of her favorite chairs reproduced as a gift for the new first family. The original chairs, on loan from her friend Anne Johnson, are armless and chic, and Laura thought Michelle Obama would love them.
“Laura keeps asking about those chairs,” Johnson said. “She’s saying to me, ‘Do you think they’re using them? Do they like them? Oh, how could they not love those chairs?’ ”
It’s a nice gesture, but who cares? If I want fluff, I can read stuff like this. Frank & Evelyn’s belongs right where it is and moving it from 10th & Christian into ‘the City’ is a bad idea.
