Below is
an interesting account
of how masons
"Meet on the Level".
“While he was president, Teddy Roosevelt visited his home lodge, Matinecock #806 in New York, in September 1908. Afterward, he spoke of the experience of seeing his own gardener serving as Master of the Lodge that evening while he sat on the sidelines. ”Clearly I could not call upon him when I came home. It would have embarrassed him. Neither could he, without embarrassment, call on me. In the lodge it was different. He was over me, though I was president, and it was good for him, and good for me.”
In Masonry, all the trappings of status or prestige worn in the outside world are left on the other side of the door of the lodge - even for presidents.”