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US presidents have been dining at the former speakeasy’s coveted tables since Franklin D Roosevelt more than 80 years ago, and it is said that John F Kennedy spent the eve of his inauguration there.

From The Guardian • Nov. 18, 2016

Pakistan's new president Asif Zardari was supposed to have been dining at the Marriott when the bomb went off, but had decided at the last minute to eat at the prime minister's house.

From Time Magazine Archive

The dissonant quatrian Hughes Lowden Hoover Dawes which politican wiseacres have been dining at the public for weeks to describe the Republican problem, had dwindled to the first couplet except as political poetry.

From Time Magazine Archive

Instead of traipsing through Georgetown or the Virginia suburbs on evenings or weekends when the White House was quiet, the Nixons have been dining with each other�something of a novelty for them.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have been dining like the dragon of Wantley1 for this last week.

From The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 by Prothero, Rowland E. (Rowland Edmund), Baron Ernle