The very first thing Barack Obama did on his first full day at the White House was to jack up the heat.
Out on the campaign trail, he had advised the plebes of the world to keep their thermostats--- to “72 degrees at all times”--no matter how frigid the winter and had lectured plain folk to pump air into their tires for the sake of the environment.
It was said that the new administration made it warm enough in the White House to grow orchids.