{"id":2744,"date":"2012-10-31T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T12:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/?p=2744"},"modified":"2012-10-31T11:20:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T15:20:57","slug":"dinner-with-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/allin\/2012\/10\/31\/dinner-with-the-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinner with the President"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The state dining room in the White House. Let’s have dinner with a few of the past Presidents.<\/p><\/div>\n

We have a Presidential election one week from today, Steven Spielberg is about to release a new movie <\/a>about President Lincoln, and, honestly, it feels as if we’ve been in the midst of presidential campaigning for almost two years…maybe almost four years.<\/p>\n

So, I’ve been thinking about which former President(s)<\/a> I would most like to have dinner with…and there are several. From the early days, Thomas Jefferson<\/a>–an intellectual with deep ties to the land, a leading thinker in the creation and implementation of many of the ideas and principles that still guide this country. From a century ago, well it’s got to be Teddy Roosevelt<\/a>–crazy warrior AND conservationist, an irresistible combination. From more recently, Truman<\/a>–who had to fill some very big shoes and make a very difficult decision in the early days of his presidency;\u00a0 Eisenhower, because I’d like to ask him about the difference between leading an army and leading a nation, plus get his take on the whole McCarthy<\/a> debacle;\u00a0 and Johnson<\/a>, who led the country through some of the most dramatic social policy changes our country has ever seen.<\/p>\n

Back at you, now: leave the current President out of it and tell me which former President(s) you would most like to talk with over a long, leisurely dinner…and why. Here’s a link <\/a>to the White House website with information about each of our Presidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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