WHAT WAS IN THE ENVELOPE?

Our genius colleagues (and office-mates) over at Democracy in America have created a very fun and not at all immature presidential-transition guessing game:

PRIOR to leaving the White House for the last time, George Bush left an envelope in the oval office for Barack Obama. Here in the New York bureau, I've asked my colleagues to guess what was inside. This is what they've come up with so far:

  • anthrax
  • a photocopy of his butt
  • increasingly smaller envelopes
  • Iraq's weapons of mass destruction
  • a copy of the Constitution: "Turns out to be a really good read! -GWB"
  • "The Official Preppy Handbook"
  • a scrawled note, short and sweet, good for all occasions: "Let Freedom reign!"
  • pages and pages of "All work and no play makes George a dull boy"
  • take-out menus—you know, just basic Chinese, maybe pizza and a wings place or two
  • This drawing:
    THE ENVELOPE

So, More Intelligent Life readers, got any ideas? (Not that we're competing, or anything. I love you all unconditionally.)

~ EMILY BOBROW

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LOL, love the drawing. I

January 22, 2009 - 18:58 — Simon (not verified)

LOL, love the drawing. I think there are 43 more post-it notes with numbers on them inside the envelope.

Nothing to get excited about

January 23, 2009 - 08:23 — Visitor (not verified)

The envelope contained basic handover notes. There was a mixture of stuff including how to turn down the White House heating in the middle of the night, Tony Blair's mobile number in case of emergencies, the intelligence officers he trusted (and those he didn't), eaterie recommendations and his predictions on this year's Superbowl.

There was little inside that was inspiring, intelligent or worth talking about.

Not dissimilar to his time in office, really.

In the envelope .....

January 26, 2009 - 12:16 — Fred (not verified)

Don't sit on the president's chair - its jinxed by Bushism !~