An example of polite behavior, starring Ronald Reagan: https://www.salon.com/2003/11/24/korda https://www.salon.com/2003/11/24/korda [From the Salon article]:

An example of polite behavior, starring Ronald Reagan: https://www.salon.com/2003/11/24/korda https://www.salon.com/2003/11/24/korda [From the Salon article]: Korda's eye for detail really shines a couple of hundred pages later, when he and several other editors have joined Ronald Reagan in Los Angeles, near the end of the president's second term, to work on Reagan's memoirs. A plate of bad, overchunked chocolate cookies has been served. Only one remains, and Reagan's good manners dictate that he offer it around before taking it himself: [Here the Salon article quotes from Korda's own memoirs]: One of his aides took the plate from his hand and passed it on. The aides, I noticed, knew better than to reach for the last cookie. [S&S editor] Chuck Adams passed the plate on to me, and I passed it on to [writer Robert] Lindsey, the last man in the circle. I caught a glimpse of the president's face. His eyes were hopeful and bright, his whole expression that of somebody who has done the right thing and seen it pay off. He was already reaching for the plate when Lindsey, who had been bent over a copy of the manuscript, oblivious of the small drama taking place at the table, absentmindedly grabbed the cookie and bit into it without even looking up. Reagan's face crumpled, his expression that of a man who has just staked the farm on one card and lost.