Likeable Presidents, Part Deux

In My Humble Opinion
1

Over in GD, vanilla’s asked about the likeability factor of presidents as a factor in electability and leadership: Likeable Presidents.

to put a slightly different spin on it, if you could spend a day socialising with any one of the past Presidents [time travel - details are left to the student to work out], whom would you pick?

Ukele Ike’s already off to the Yale-Princeton football game with Woodrow Wilson. (I’ll be in the Yale bleachers yelling “Go, Eli!!” - sorry Ike, you’re on your own with Woody.)

Me, I think I’d like to spend a day with Silent Cal, riding a buggy in the Vermont hills in the autumn - sort of a Trappist-in-nature thing. Who knows, I might even have half of a quotation by the end of the day.

So, who’s your pick?

“It’s a dog-eat-dog world, Sammy, and I’m wearing Milk-Bone™ underwear.”

2

This may sound funny, as I think his administration was a complete disaster, but Jimmy Carter really seems like the salt of the earth as a man, and if I were to live next to a recent president, I’d think I’d like it to be him.

3

I’d have to go with Thomas Jefferson, who was renowned as a host and bon vivant.

Second choice might actually be Clinton, since he and I have similar backgrounds. I could see us chowing down at a rib shack over a cold Bud.

Third choice, maybe Harry Truman. No stuffed shirt, he, and I’d like to chat with him about the Hiroshima decision and the '48 election.

Fourth choice, Carter, who is known to drop in from time to time at my neighborhood bar, Manuel’s Tavern.