President Bush visits Erie PA. in 04
Awesome! I would give a lot to see him in person. Maybe when he gets out of office and visits West Texas to see family I'll get my chance. I have met Mr. and Mrs. Don Evans when they shopped in my store. That was neat!
Since some posters are fairly new here, I went to to my Finest Feature of 03-21-03 Mama_Bear posted, to copy my experiences with being close to (and actually touching!) two presidents:
"LadyX counts among her most treasured moments meeting two Presidents! In North Carolina, President Gerald Ford made an appearance at a mall in Winston-Salem, and she and her 12-year old daughter positioned themselves where he was likely to come along the rope line.
Young Jennifer, very short, tugged on his coat sleeve as others reached over them to shake hands, and the President looked down at her and asked, "How're you doin', Sweetie?" !! (The Secret Service Agent's reflex action came within an inch of chopping off her arm for touching his President!) President Ford shook hands with LadyX, too, and then angled to the podium to speak."
"In February 2002, after his defeat in New Hampshire, candidate George W. Bush stopped in her small, wonderfully conservative South Carolina town to speak.
Creating on the computer lapel signs for herself and her husband that said VETERAN for BUSH - she chose a spot a mere 12' from where he was to speak from the back of a pickup truck in the town circle, separated from him only by grass, and was thus able to get several photographs, one shown here...
When he finished speaking, she managed to have him sign her invitation to the event, and then positioned herself in front of him where she could shake his hand. Pointing to her lapel sign, about to relate she had made it for him (as opposed to McCain), he interrupted her, and said pointedly,
"I NOTICED IT EARLIER" and whipped up his pen and signed it on her body!
(And no, unlike the gal whose top was signed by WJC, she did not at the time take it off to look at the autograph!)
The last photo was snapped by her husband. A shot of this was on Fox News Channel coverage, shown two days later, and the local paper mentioned her twice in addition to an article about her.
That Saturday, the South Carolina Primary handed President Bush his first win on the road to the nomination for and winning of the Office of the President of the United States. "An' ah helped...as goes the old Shake & Bake commercial..:)" says LadyX."
Needless to say, both these events were highlights of my life!
God blessed me enormously, knowing my love and appreciation of this country.
I also *came within a whisker* of meeting President Truman in 1947, as well.
Representing Florida in the 1947 National Spelling Bee, we contestants were taken to the White House to meet him, but during the night his mother in Missouri had fallen ill, and he had flown out there.
Then so was Jenna! And that guy in the sunglasses behind her. :)