Political, academic, and business leaders gathered under a monumental painting of Massachusetts Senator DanielWebster debating South Carolina Senator Robert Hayne in 1830.
The first famous regular, DanielWebster, liked to sit at the U-shaped raw bar downstairs - still in use today - and enjoy three dozen raw oysters with a tumbler of brandy with.
But Bush also likes to relax, as he told a Webster Elementary School student Daniel Hannah-Dubois of Manchester, one of two students who interviewed him on LaBombard's bus during a campaign swing last month.