Back in 1932, Sid Ascher was an assistant scoutmaster in Brooklyn, NY who looked up President Herbert Hoover's birthday (August 10) and wrote requesting that he represent the Brooklyn Boy Scouts at the birthday party. The White House said yes and he took a bus to Washington DC.

He ate breakfast with Hoover, then at the party, he presented the President with a proclamation signed by hundreds of Brooklyn Boy Scouts. Later asked by First Lady Lou Hoover where he was staying, he told her he was taking the last bus back to New York. At which point she offered the Lincoln Bedroom for the night--no charge.

It was an offer he snatched up in an instant, although he remembers not sleeping much because he was too excited about staying in the White House.

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