His own books may have made him millions, but that didn’t stop President Obama from asking for a Christmas discount for his Saturday purchase of 17 books at a popular store in Washington, D.C.
“Do I get a discount for that,” Obama joked at the counter of Politics & Prose.
The clerk responded that he could get a “neighbor’s discount,” according to a White House press pool report of the conversation. In the C-SPAN video, however, it sounded more like “visitor’s discount.”
Here is the White House list of books purchased at Politics & Prose earlier today by Obama and his daughters.
• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End — Atul Gawande
• Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business (Junie B. Jones Series #2) — Barbara Park
• A Barnyard Collection: Click, Clack, Moo and More — Doreen Cronin
• I Spy Sticker Book and Picture Riddles — Jean Marzollo
• Nuts to You — Lynn Rae Perkins
• Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus (Junie B. Jones Series #1) — Barbara Park
• Brown Girl Dreaming — Jacqueline Woodson
• Redwall (Redwall Series #1) — Brian Jacques
• Mossflower (Redwall Series #2) — Brian Jacques
• Mattimeo (Redwall Series #3) — Brian Jacques
• Cartwheeling in Thunderstorms — Katherine Rundell
• The Narrow Road to the Deep North — Richard Flanagan
• The Laughing Monsters — Denis Johnson
• All the Light We Cannot See — Anthony Doerr
• Heart of Darkness — Joseph Conrad
• Nora Webster — Colm Toibin
• Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China — Evan Osnos
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
