re: Has anyone here ever had a conversation with a US President?

Spoke with Bush 41 when he was VP in 1984 and was visiting friends/supporters in our neighborhood for a day. Sat a couple seats away from him while wolfing down a burger. I was surprised he would even engage a sixteen-year-old high school kid, but I don't think there was a person there who didn't get at least a couple minutes of what we perceived to be his undivided attention.

Spoke with him again briefly at the LSU Union in 1988 when he came through while I was checking my mail box. Probably got about two minutes of pleasantries out of him before he had to hustle off for a fund raiser at the PMAC for his presidential bid.

He was personable and a lot taller than I had expected.

I guess those don't count as real conversations though.

Dad, however, had LBJ's ear at the Democrat National Convention in Atlantic City, NJ in 1964 for a couple hours when he was a delegate to the convention. Dad did NOT like him but he saw no alternative but to vote to vote for him as the Dem candidate at that convention. As soon as he returned home to WV he began to help campaigning for Barry Goldwater.

I still have a few books LBJ signed and sent to Dad in an effort to bring him around, but Dad would have none of it. He thought highly enough of LBJ to let us kids play with and scribble in those LBJ-autographed books when we were kids. I'm surprised he didn't use them to start a fire in the fireplace during the winters when we were little.

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His security was awful. I almost accidentally knocked him down the stairs of a courthouse. His security was so bad, I could have killed and eaten him in that huge throng of people.

Spoke with Carter once.

Had a short conversation on the golf course with Gerald Ford when I was young. I carried my uncle's bag when he played in an exhibition pro-am in Tulsa. He was paired with his friend Doug Tewell. Roy Clark of Hee-Haw fame was in their group. Roy had blue cowboy boots with spikes on the bottom

Gerald Ford was in the group behind us and I, being a dumbass kid, was fascinated with his golf cart. He was the only one using a cart and it had the presidential seal on the front, gold wheels, it was decked out. Wish I had a picture of it. His SS detail didn't like that I was getting so close to check it out and shooed me away but Gerald Ford, super nice guy, said something kiddingly like "Did I see you hit that BIG drive?" and we chatted for a minute, I can't remember what was said but that's my only brush with a president.

Yes

Helped Jerry Ford and his SS guy find the parts they needed to repair his sprinkler system for his Beaver Creek home back in my college years. Acted just like any other customer, normal guy.

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I met Bill Clinton once at a restaurant in Hot Springs. I was fully expecting a hand shake and move on. But he actually engaged me, asked a lot of questions, etc. We probably had a 10-15 minute conversation. It was amazing how interested he seemed in the conversation. I was mid 20s at the time, and most of his questions centered around my interest and future plans. Zero reference to himself.

I’m a lifelong republican, but that guy had some charisma. Maybe it was all a show and his game but I felt like he just really cared about people.

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Same story here. He was Gov of Arkansas as the time. I was a nobody punk Page.

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No. He came home after 18 months in spring of 1953. It was supposedly why we got a phone call from the President though. Sorry for the confusion.

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Im sorry. He was killed and not killed?

I talked to John Goodman outside Parains once.