The Cheesing of the White House

No, no, no. This will not stand:

1/8 This tweet is a goddamn outrage and it’s wrong https://t.co/eAAjgkTiCr

— Matt Langer (@mattlanger) January 16, 2015

2/8 The White House doesn’t know it’s own history! Because Aaron Sorkin is not a history teacher and The West Wing is not a civics textbook!

— Matt Langer (@mattlanger) January 16, 2015

3/8 The tradition of a giant block of cheese does not date back to Andrew Jackson, it dates back to Thomas Jefferson.

— Matt Langer (@mattlanger) January 16, 2015

4/8 I would encourage every enthusiast of White House cheese to consult the “Correspondence of Sylvanus Urban” https://t.co/m8uopJ7vwU

— Matt Langer (@mattlanger) January 16, 2015

5/8 Elder John Leland, a Calvinist pastor from Cheshire, MA, prepared a massive block of cow cheese for delivery to the White House in 1802.

— Matt Langer (@mattlanger) January 16, 2015

6/8 Everyone in town brought a bucket of milk to the mill, save for the Federalists, whose cows would’ve conveyed a “distasteful savour.”

— Matt Langer (@mattlanger) January 16, 2015

7/8 The result was a 1600lb wheel of cheese, which Leland had to wait for winter snowfalls in order to carry 500 miles overland by sleigh.

— Matt Langer (@mattlanger) January 16, 2015

8/8 Jackson supporters only later adopted this tradition because “every honor which Jefferson had ever received should be paid to [Jackson]”

— Matt Langer (@mattlanger) January 16, 2015

Shameful.