It all started with an all-too-familiar story of a pair of destroyed J.Crew capris that Mastromonaco loved, People magazine reports — during a dinner with her fellow female senior staffers. From then on, Mastromonaco says she "made it my mission to get a tampon dispenser in the West Wing women’s bathroom." By the time Obama left office, half of his senior staffers were women — up from one-third in the beginning of his administration. A tampon machine was more than in order.