How about daycare for the children of single mothers? The average cost of it in this country is $343 per week, or $16,464 a year. Even with just one child, that would take a mighty bite out of the single mother’s average yearly earnings of $39,120. Instead of a gilded ballroom, that $300 million could provide a one-year $6000 daycare subsidy for 50,000 single moms. This could help change lives for the better.

Or, that $300 million could pay tuition at community colleges, which averages about $5200 a year. Another 57,692 lives changed for the better.

Or, that $300 million could be invested in CHIP, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or WIC, the Women, Infants and Children food program. Another 42 million lives changed for the better.

That would be a legacy any president could take pride in.