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The Presidents Visit and the Storm
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Oct 5, 2021 09:09:11 #
In 1960 we were at the Boy Scouts of America Jamboree in Colorado Springs, CO. Dwight Eisenhower , America's last honest president rode through the entire grounds in his 1956 Cadillac convertible with the top opened. He waved enthusiastically to the crowd and the crowd responded accordingly. America was still a fun place to be when an event such as this occurred. Lying Lyndon changed the face of the office, and the nation. We are at the height of hypocrisy when a statue of Robert E. Lee is torn down while Lying Lyndon's bust remains in the Capitol. Forget racial bigotry, outlaw hypocrisy and Washington D.C. becomes a ghost town.
Oct 5, 2021 09:22:48 #
Back when Reagan was shot I was a photography major and that day we were on a field trip to the Library of Congress to look at portfolios of actual prints from some of the greats, Ansel Adams, Edward Weston and several others, (I still salivate over a particular Brett Weston print). We had left the library and were on the street just a couple of blocks away and I had camera in hand. Of course we didn’t hear anything about it until we got back to campus that afternoon. I was so close to some award winning photojournalism. 😜🤪
Oct 5, 2021 10:24:42 #
AZNikon
Loc: Mesa, AZ
The one president I saw was John F. Kennedy in a motorcade down Main Street in Houston, Texas. The next day I was shopping in a Sears store when it came over the PA system that he had been shot in Dallas. There was no camera involved other than the one in my head that will never forget watching him wave as his motorcade drove past me on Main Street so many years ago. A very sad day for all Americans and the world.
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Oct 5, 2021 10:40:49 #
Bill_de wrote:
I was hired by a friend who contracted to shoot a convention in D.C. There was a get together at the White House where I was a few feet from President Ford. Before he left I got to shoot the President. Then I had a short dance with his daughter Susan while the Marine Corp Band played mostly rock music. Most of the women crowded around the Presidents wife, Betty
Although I was paid well and had some fun, I think it was more work than it was worth.
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Although I was paid well and had some fun, I think it was more work than it was worth.
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Great story…but you may want to watch your wording😳
Oct 5, 2021 10:41:13 #
wrangler5
Loc: Missouri
I was in chuch with President Eisenhower in ~1956. The usher seated my grandmother and me next to a large man who was already in the pew, on the aisle, when we arrived. The President came in at the last minute before the service started. The man next to me sat and stood as appropriate throughout the service, but declined my offer of a hymnal and did not sing. Just watched. At the end of the service, when the President got up to leave, the man next to me and about a dozen other men around the sanctuary stood up and walked out at the same time.
Oct 5, 2021 10:50:15 #
As a deputy sheriff in Santa Barbara County during the Reagan years I had the honor of being selected for his security detail not only when Reagan was the Governor of California but also when, as POTUS, he visited the Western White House. I saw him a few times on the ranch and he was always very gracious.
Dennis
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Oct 5, 2021 12:13:15 #
lmTrying
Loc: WV Northern Panhandle
Thomas902 wrote:
I attended Woodstock (Aug 15, 1969 – Aug 18, 1969)
The entire world changed for me at that event...
Some life experiences are priceless and precious...
It was a dream within a dream...
The entire world changed for me at that event...
Some life experiences are priceless and precious...
It was a dream within a dream...
I attended Kent State from Fall 1969 - Spring 1973. Leaving class, walking past the gym on Fridays, I could hear a rock band practicing. It was the James Gang.
Leaving class on a Monday, I found myself standing on the end of the practice football field. I watched teargas get thrown back n forth. I watched the National Guard line up, march up the hill, turn, and........
The entire world changed for me that day.
Some life experiences are.......
(Can't imagine what those boys went through in Vietnam. Or WWII.)
Brutal reality that day. But it has seemed like a dream ever since,,,,
But not past tense, because it keeps coming back to haunt me.
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Oct 5, 2021 12:20:09 #
JFCoupe
Loc: Kent, Washington
My only in person presidential experience was in the 1950s when President Eisenhower came to Missoula, MT to dedicate the new smoke jumper facility. As a 5 or 6 year old, it seems like the whole world was there that day. I remember seeing the President at the door of the plane before he came down the steps.
Oct 5, 2021 13:33:07 #
I’ve had several pre and post presidential term contacts. In the late nineties and early naughts I commuted regularly on the Amtrak Metroliner between Philadelphia and D.C. Senators Joe Biden and Arlen Specter were regulars and even though from opposite parties always sat together and appeared to greatly enjoy each other’s company. Specter would board in Phildelphia, and then Biden would join him in Wilmington.
Later, after Bill Clinton was no longer President and shortly after he and Hillary had moved to New York, he boarded the train in DC and went to the car in front of mine. About 30 minutes after the train left DC there was a commotion at the front of the car (I was sitting near the back). Over the next 20 or so minutes, Clinton “worked” the car, stopping at each seat and briefly chatting with each passenger. He appeared to be greatly enjoying himself. About a half hour after he had finished our car, and presumably had done the same in the next car behind, he came back. As he reached the back of my seat his phone rang and he stopped to answer it. I couldn’t help but overhear his end of it, which included “I’m afraid I can’t, Hillary is making me go to a fund raiser that evening.” This was when she was running for Senate from New York.
Also in DC I was having dinner in the Willard, when Benjamin Netanyahu, then prime minister of Israel, walked by our table and briefly stopped to say hello when he saw we recognized him.
Both Clinton and Netanyahu were accompanied by small (two man) security details, but Biden and Specter never had security.
Later, after Bill Clinton was no longer President and shortly after he and Hillary had moved to New York, he boarded the train in DC and went to the car in front of mine. About 30 minutes after the train left DC there was a commotion at the front of the car (I was sitting near the back). Over the next 20 or so minutes, Clinton “worked” the car, stopping at each seat and briefly chatting with each passenger. He appeared to be greatly enjoying himself. About a half hour after he had finished our car, and presumably had done the same in the next car behind, he came back. As he reached the back of my seat his phone rang and he stopped to answer it. I couldn’t help but overhear his end of it, which included “I’m afraid I can’t, Hillary is making me go to a fund raiser that evening.” This was when she was running for Senate from New York.
Also in DC I was having dinner in the Willard, when Benjamin Netanyahu, then prime minister of Israel, walked by our table and briefly stopped to say hello when he saw we recognized him.
Both Clinton and Netanyahu were accompanied by small (two man) security details, but Biden and Specter never had security.
Oct 5, 2021 14:30:23 #
Oct 5, 2021 14:33:46 #
Merlin1300 wrote:
... Most memorable? Flying inverted at 500 KIAS over the Rhine Valley in an RF-4C.
Personal cameras weren't permitted in the cockpit :( :(
Personal cameras weren't permitted in the cockpit :( :(
Too bad you had such a tight-assed sqdn. or wing commander. It's ironic you were not allowed to carry a camera while flying a PHOTO RECONNAISANCE plane.
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Oct 5, 2021 15:31:31 #
RichinSeattle wrote:
Too bad you had such a tight-assed sqdn. or wing commander. It's ironic you were not allowed to carry a camera while flying a PHOTO RECONNAISANCE plane.
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Oct 5, 2021 17:33:14 #
wrangler5
Loc: Missouri
RichinSeattle wrote:
Too bad you had such a tight-assed sqdn. or wing commander. It's ironic you were not allowed to carry a camera while flying a PHOTO RECONNAISANCE plane.
Given the G forces those planes can generate in a heartbeat, in almost any direction, I can imagine that anything in the cockpit that's not locked down could become a hazard to navigation. A pen or pencil might not be much of a risk, but a camera of any size could become a cannon ball under the wrong circumstances.
Oct 5, 2021 19:31:12 #
Daryls
Loc: Waco, TX
As an Army EOD Officer in the 1980s and early 1990s, my bomb squad teams and I provided security and EOD support for the US president, vice president, secretary of state, presidental candidates, foreign heads of state, selected dignitaries, and their family members. We provided that service in the USA and overseas. Besides blowing things up, this was one of the best missions we had at that time.
President Reagan and Nancy both were super frieindly and nice. They both took time out during the missions to talk with the support team members like we were old aquantances. Very often, both would remember the talks we engaged in when we would meet again! They were the best people by far. Barbara Bush was very nice also, just like your grandmother. So was Laura Bush, and President Bush was always cordial to all of us too. The respect and kindness disappeared under Clinton. Then I retired from the Army and my soldiers would tell me horror stories about their support missions and how much they dreaded going out on them.
President Reagan and Nancy both were super frieindly and nice. They both took time out during the missions to talk with the support team members like we were old aquantances. Very often, both would remember the talks we engaged in when we would meet again! They were the best people by far. Barbara Bush was very nice also, just like your grandmother. So was Laura Bush, and President Bush was always cordial to all of us too. The respect and kindness disappeared under Clinton. Then I retired from the Army and my soldiers would tell me horror stories about their support missions and how much they dreaded going out on them.
Oct 5, 2021 21:32:32 #
mundy-F2
Loc: Chicago suburban area
Steve V wrote:
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Cool picture of the President's transportation.
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