Change for a Dollar

At a convenience store, a clerk cannot decide on his own whether to break a customer's dollar into coins, so he takes the question to his manager in the back room. The manager phones a regional office in Albany, the executive there tracks down his vacationing boss on a golf course, and the boss finally calls his old friend in the Oval Office. Each link in the chain agonizes over the request with mounting dread, until the President's blunt refusal travels back down the line to the waiting customer.