I learned that he didn't like to lose and, on occasion, his temper flared when the poker pot was piled high with nickels and dimes and he lost.
All of this, he promised, would not add a dime to the deficit, although he provided no details of how it would be paid for other than by reallocating existing spending.Republicans immediately pointed out that the public debt has grown by 58.6 trillion dimes on Mr Obama's watch.
"It's a business of dimes and nickels, not dollars," says one adviser to the industry, "so it pays to be the low-cost, high-volume producer".
All of this, he promised, would not add a dime to the deficit, although he provided no details of how it would be paid for.Republicans immediately pointed out that the public debt has grown by 58.6 trillion dimes on Mr Obama's watch.
But in recent months the city has been lavishing $9m on trees, kiosks, a bronze gateway, benches and, from August 9th, bright green "giving meters", parking meters that have been adapted to take change from passers-by.These meters, their inventors believe, will encourage donors who are reluctant to put their dimes into a paper cup.
It also nickels and dimes its customers, charging extra fees for just about everything, and surveys have consistently shown that travellers hate being nickeled-and-dimed.
With modern rifles, "you can shoot dimes all day at 100 yards," Mr McPherson sniffs.
The South African rand is the main currency in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second city, and one-rand coins are used in place of dimes all over the country.
Amazingly, it thought this when John D. Rockefeller, clad in a fur coat, gave dimes to New York beggars; and it still thinks it now, despite all evidence to the contrary.
With its private sector addicted to spending on foreigners' dimes, Turkey's government needs to compensate by saving more.
The boys fraternized with the crowd at Arnold's Malt Shop, where they sipped floats, dumped dimes into the jukebox, fretted about girls, and lamented the minor misunderstandings they had with their parents.
