You’d think he’d have figured out the unwashed part after the first time! 
Bill Clinton spoke at the 2000 Democratic National Convention in the Staples Center in LA, I worked about a mile away.
Obama was president three times? 
It’s sort of depressing to see how many Canadians think Prime Ministers belong in this thread. Learn some basic facts about your system of government, people!
In 2010, when I was on detachament onboard the USS Mt. Whitney, we were doing a joint excercise with Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian and Polish special forces. The President of Lithuania, Dalia Grybauskaitė, came onboard to watch, and she was transported aboard in my helicopter. I shook her hand after she disembarked the helicopter onboard the ship.
In the mid-90’s I was stationed at Pt. Mugu in California. Air Force One would drop Clinton off at Pt. Mugu whenever he was visiting the LA area. I was on the PCH heading back towards the base when traffic came to a screeching halt for 10 minutes. The motorcade passed by going the other way. Clinton must have had the light on in his car, because I could clearly see him reading a book. He was on the far side of the car one lane over, so i would say he was 12-15 feet away.
You can’t be GG trolling? :dubious: Only in the SDMB.
Governor General?
Yes, the Queen’s representative.
Speaking of governors, I once went to dinner the the Governor of the Falkland Islands.
Are you aware you can’t call other posters trolls in this forum? Don’t do it again or you will be warned. Take it to the Pit.
I was perhaps 50 feet from Queen Elizabeth when she visited Boston back in the 1970s. She drove across the Harvard Bridge. I had cycled out to the middle of the bridge and watched. It was very weird – there was absolutely no crowd around me. There were lots of people on both the Boston and Cambridge sides, but very few people on the bridge itself, so I had an unobstructed, unjostled view.
I shook Jimmy Carter’s hand when he was the president. That’s about it for me. I knew a mayor of Tampa pretty well but he was technically a head of city not a head of state.
Shook hands with President Clinton in the hanger bay of the USS Eisenhower in the summer of 1995 (or maybe 1994 - all I can remember is that it was before I made Chief, because the picture of it has me in my crackerjacks (white, that’s how I know it wasn’t in the winter).)
A couple of years later I shook hands with the then former President George H. W. Bush when he came for a visit to the USS Truman.
Next, of course, you need to shake hands with President Eisenhower when he visits the USS Clinton, and with President Truman when he comes to the USS Bush.
Hmm…
Well that would be a neat trick if I could pull it off.
I was going to post this nitpick, which others have alluded to – in the Commonwealth countries, the Queen is the head of state; the PM is the head of government. Here in the US, the President serves both functions.
I was in the crowd listening to Bush 43 during his 2004 campaign, when he spoke to the Knights of Columbus, and in fact was interviewed by media about the event – the Knights of Columbus are a Catholic fraternal organization but were more enthusiastic about the Protestant Bush than his Catholic rival Kerry.
I was probably within 30 feet of him at best.
Thank you for the civics lesson. The point was acknowledged by many of us Commonwealth dopers and our sincerest apologies for playing along.
Speaking as the OP, Head of Government is close enough for government work.
I see what you did there.
Though not a head of State, he is the head of something.
I met and had a couple of conversations with Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations at the Jackson Hole Film Festival 2008. He was there to talk to film makers about a UN program that gives them access to hard to reach places to make films of social importance, like “Hotel Rawanda”. I was on tour with the festivals musical entertainment. We were introduced after his speech at a private reception and had a good chat, later we talked again at another festival event.
He was very nice, interesting and intelligent also and quite surprisingly, funny.
Hope I spelled his name right.
Capt