Great people, including presidents, read in the bathroom

I searched the train for him and finally discovered him in one of the white enameleed lavatories with its door half open.... He was busily engaged in reading, while he braced himself in the angle fo the two walls against the swaying motion of the train, oblivious to time and surroundings. The book in which he was absorbed was Lecky's History of Rationalism in Europe. He had chosen this peculiar reading room both because the white enamel reflected a brilliant light and he was pretty sure of uninterrupted quiet.

-- Lawrence F. Abbott, traveling companion and secretary for Theodore Roosevelt during his European tour, from Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris