[OMB's Peter] Orszag arrived for his first weekend of work on a snowy January day, [and] there were logs neatly stacked [in his new office].
“It still seemed a little suspicious. So I lit a piece of paper to see if it vented,” Orszag said. The smoke went up the chimney.
“So then we lit a few logs. It was venting. It was fine,” he said. The only problem: The Secret Service had capped the building’s chimneys. Smoke alarms started going off upstairs, and the building was evacuated.
And though Orzag wasn’t publicly named as the culprit (“Smoke Linked to Attempt to Use 2nd-Floor Fireplace,” was the Washington Post’s headline the next day.), the incident remains the source of much amusement inside the White House.
“Rahm asked me to send smoke signals to the Hill,” Orszag recalled.
From Politico via The Progress Report, 2/20/2009
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