NBC News: “The president’s penchant for the palindromic number stretches back months. Complaining about a theoretical trip to Asia, he’s bemoaned that the flight alone would take 22 hours. A story on prescription drug costs that he thought deserved more attention appeared, in his telling, on Page 22 of The New York Times. He met with 22 medical specialists during a recent checkup at Walter Reed Medical Center. And ’22 Nobel Prize winners in economics said we would, right now, be in a recession,’ he said in February. ‘All 22 were wrong.'”