But he will not resign until he's given me the commission to create the 500-place set of dinnerware to be used at official functions! (Each president does get to chose his own chinaware pattern, you know.) But Rapaire is too down to earth for chinaware. He wants stoneware. Big, massive stoneware that would look at home in the castle of some pre-Norman king. $200 per place setting.... 500 settings.... Wow! I better buy another kiln!