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Special visit today with a great friend -- and now, a best-selling author. Luckily I had a freshly laundered pair of @BillClinton socks to mark the occasion.
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BigmanPigman
(51,674 posts)riversedge
(70,469 posts)TexasProgresive
(12,165 posts)Bill also has a bracelet he wears every day - and has done for the last 10 years.
The woven band was a gift from Los Ninos del Vallenato, a Colombian band who performed for Bill at the White House when he was president. He also saw them play when he visited Cartagena with Chelsea in 2000.
A few years later the head of the group was kidnapped and murdered by Marxist rebels in Colombia.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3579636/The-bracelets-Bill-Hillary-Clinton-wear-day-meaning-them.html
BigmanPigman
(51,674 posts)FarPoint
(12,487 posts)Sarah Huckabee can be tRumps caregiver...
Past Presidents always seem to bond....but then there is an exception...tRump.
sinkingfeeling
(51,499 posts)occasionally work together for the sake of the country.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)...I don't see this kind of reunion happening with Trump and any of his predecessors, once he leaves office. He's already pushed them all away (although I'm not really up to speed regarding when / if he ever expressed an opinion about Jimmy Carter).
It's the world's smallest club..."Former Presidents." I can't imagine a Donald J. Trump Presidential Library, I can't imagine him getting together with whatever former Presidents remain after he leaves office. I imagine his primary, and only, concern will be how to cash in his chips after the little adventure he's living right now.
THINK of the WEALTH of knowledge he could tap into with ANY of these men if he were a different man, if he had the ability to pick up the phone and say something like "Barack, I'm stuck on this one. I'd like to know what you think."
What a waste. What a tragic waste. And a completely unnecessary one to boot.
moriah
(8,311 posts)It's his head/neck/shoulder posture in the pic that feels similarly to the posture I've seen in several relatives who finally got to wheelchair status from stuff that messed with their dopamine and movement -- in one case actual Parkinson's, the others Lewy Body Dementia. I'm guessing not LBD or we'd have heard, but... ?
Glad if nothing else their staffs are trying to help us remember when people cooperated with each other, and glad Clinton came to see him. I hope everyone has visitors in the twilight times of their lives, especially after losing their spouses.
herding cats
(19,569 posts)Some of the symptoms are the same but the root cause is different(small strokes in VP) and the treatment is different, if I recall correctly.
moriah
(8,311 posts)After seeing how those types of illnesses destroy people, I wouldn't wish anything like that on my worst enemy.
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Gothmog
(145,977 posts)mcar
(42,475 posts)ffr
(22,681 posts)It's been that long since we've had one.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,235 posts)Still no fan of the Bushes and I doubt I ever will be, but I'm glad for the chivalrous attitude between political opponents in comparison to what see today.
BannonsLiver
(16,548 posts)ailsagirl
(22,911 posts)roamer65
(36,748 posts)Raine
(30,547 posts)nice to see civility on both sides, it should be this way...