There is an anecdote that when Anwar Sadat visited the United States in 1966 and met with President Lyndon B. Johnson at the White House, he was particularly astounded by Johnson’s famous rocking chair.
Johnson used the so-called “Kennedy Rocker,” a chair originally associated with John F. Kennedy, who had relied on it to ease chronic back pain.
According to the story, Sadat admired the chair so much during that visit that one of the first things he later requested upon assuming presidency was to have a similar rocking chair made for himself.
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There is an anecdote that when Anwar Sadat visited the United States in 1966 and met with President Lyndon B. Johnson at the White House, he was particularly astounded by Johnson’s famous rocking chair.
Johnson used the so-called “Kennedy Rocker,” a chair originally associated with John F. Kennedy, who had relied on it to ease chronic back pain.
According to the story, Sadat admired the chair so much during that visit that one of the first things he later requested upon assuming presidency was to have a similar rocking chair made for himself.