I gather, as someone else noted, the Bush thing may have been a fake story. But I remember at least one other time when some presidential candidate or other (maybe a Bush) didn't really know the price of a dozen eggs or a gallon on milk. Why would they?

And, over the years, I've seen companies make various decisions with respect to paycheck timing and other similar administrative details for various reasons including greater consistency across the company. And there's often a hue and cry, some of it from lower paid employees who are genuinely inconvenienced by the change. And I'd be willing to bet that, in just about every case, the execs who made the decision didn't even stop to think that someone might care about minor cash flow changes.