Thank you to all our wonderful dosers! If I have forgotten anyone, please forgive me.
Rintense, regarding your #47, you are the one who deserves all thanks for starting this series of threads. MJY1288, ohioWfan, TruthNtegrity, and GretchenM also deserve much thanks and appreciation for their resolve in helping you keep "The day in the life of..." threads going through thick and thin, good times and rough, these past four years (more than 1400 days).
I'm a "johnny-come-lately" in terms of helping out where possible, and feel honored to do so. It is you, Rintense, and your four dedicated help-mates, who have kept us informed about the President's day-to-day activities and those of his family, the VP and his family, and key figures in the administration. Only the Dose provides day-to-day details ranging from foreign trips to comparatively small social functions that help provide a more intimate and complete view inside the GWB White House than the larger media rarely offer.
I don't know if you'll ever fully realize the importance of what you began at the start of this administration. When another 1400 days pass, and we gather here to say goodbye to GWB and his Laura, I think a very significant chapter in the lives of everyone who participates in and visits the Dose threads will also pass. But as long as they exist out on the worldwide web, this body of threads will remain as a unique historical record of this administration. Unlike presidential papers and effects, which tend to be available only to scholars and historical researchers, these Dose threads will be an as-it-happened record available to any American with the patience to do a little smart searching on the web.
Speaking just for myself, I don't know if there will ever be another person in my lifetime who will quite measure up to President George W. Bush -- or to his immensely dignified, classy wife. So I intend to savor every one of the next 1400+ days, both good and bad, happy and sad. In our own small way here on the Dose, we are not just witnesses to the history of a truly great presidency, but participants in it. And Rintense, we have you to thank for that.