From the Associated Press:

ARLINGTON, Va. — He may be leader of the free world, but when he takes his dog for a walk, President Barack Obama says he bends down to do the nasty work of cleaning up like anyone else.

Answering questions Friday from youngsters at an elementary school, Obama described going for nighttime walks with first dog Bo on the White House South Lawn. He says that’s fun. But, Obama says, “Sometimes I have to scoop up his poop, because I don’t want to just leave it in the lawn!”

Everything about the legendary Democratic prankster Dick Tuck has to be prefaced by “allegedly,” so here goes.

Allegedly, when he was an adviser to Robert F. Kennedy in the 1968 presidential campaign, one of Tuck’s duties was to walk the candidate’s dog as necessary. Reporters caught him early one morning in the hotel lobby, scraping a deposit into a paper bag.

Looking up, Tuck allegedly said, “To you guys it’s dog shit. To me it’s an ambassadorship to the Court of St. James.”