article_snippet.sent: That's a claim from former White House florist Ronn Payne, retold in a new book based on interviews with more than 100 members of the presidential mansion's domestic staff.
article_snippet.sent: While the political world was focused Tuesday on Republican Rand Paul's presidential coming-out party, Politico published an excerpt of 'The Residence:
article_snippet.sent: Inside the Private World of the White House.'
article_snippet.sent: But one White House domestic told  Brower
article_snippet.sent: For at least three months in 1998, according to 'The Residence,' the leader of the free world 'slept on a sofa in a private study attached to their bedroom.'
article_snippet.sent: And White House domestic employees told Brower how Lyndon Johnson adored washing in a specially-built, powerful shower, while Nancy Reagan rejected White House chefs' meals and gave White House chefs' seemingly impossible deadlines.
highlights_snippet.sent: Book published today is based on more than 100 interviews with ordinary non-political staff who ran America's presidential mansion .
  