Thursday, December 23, 2010

Strike the cigar tent!



(Sacramento Bee) When Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger leaves office, he'll take with him a piece of the Capitol that has become a staple of his time in office: his signature smoking tent.
The tent erected on the Governor's Office patio served as a frequent location for private meetings of the governor, his aides and legislative leaders.
"As long as I'm at the Capitol, I will be smoking my stogies down there, and I will be having people down there smoking stogies," Schwarzenegger told Fox News in May 2005. Continued

Pictured: 23rd New York Infantry, circa 1862. Two soldiers, one black and one white smoking a long pipe in front of tent. (Library of Congress)

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