Anyone ever meet/shake hands with Eisenhower or FDR in RL?

[raccoon]

If so, tell us about it.

[Rabblevox]

1. Not quite that old, I have shaken hands with Carter, Clinton, and Gore, though.../nt

[charlie and algernon]

2. met David Eisenhower a few years ago

He came to a fundraiser for a Democratic candidate I was working for at the time. He was very friendly and he had to have been close to the same age as Dwight, his grandfather, was when he was president because David looked almost EXACTLY like him, it was eery.

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. I met Ike in 1959 ...... well I got within 17 feet of him

when he spoke at SHAPE in Paris.

SHAPE was before Nato

[SoCalDem]

4. I met Eisenhower in Panama, when he visited the Canal Zone.. He signed my baseball program

and seeing as how I was a little kid, I promptly lost it :)

[JVS]

5. Yep.

[DURHAM D]

6. What is RL?

I met and shook hands with Eisenhower in Abilene, Kansas when he kicked off his campaign for the Presidency. I was only 6 and during his speech my father repeatedly gently reminded me to pay attention because I was watching history. To tell you the truth I was far more fascinated by a small man (dressed as a cowboy) who was just my height and part of Ike's entourage.

My grandfather became a county chair for the campaign and we (me, my sister, and grandfather) traveled all over the state campaigning for Ike. My grandfather always drove a DeSoto. Remember those?

Just for the heck of it I still wear my "I Like Ike" button every four years during the presidential campaigns.

[raccoon]

8. RL = Real Life. nt

[Old Codger]

7. Not DDE or FDR

But HST when I was in about 2nd or 3rd grade... (too long ago to be sure of year):)

[kickysnana]

9. I shook the hand, that shook the hand, that shook the hand of A Lincoln.

Lincoln>Civil War Union Vet>Grandma>Me

I shook the hand of Sen Paul Wellstone, twice and several US Reps.

[Bardley]

13. i shook the hand, that wiped the butt, of Reagan nt

[tibbiit]

10. My uncle

Used to fly him (Ike) on Proctor and Gamble jets. They were both golf fanatics and he played golf with him in scotland.
In my dads three person office, Nixon among others came to visit. The father-in-law of my dads boss was the founder of the largest oilfield supply company (at the time). Many high placed repubs came to visit mr. v. (rockefeller).
I never got to meet any of them. These were repugs from the 1950s and early 60s... tolerable but still pugs. (except eisenhower I always liked him but then I was 1 years old when he came to power)
I have other bigtime pugs in my background but my mother, brother and I have always been Democrats!
tib

[nevergiveup]

11. No, but I shook hands with Nixon.

:blush:

[monmouth]

12. I had finished my show on the Steel Pier, was walking back to the

bus station (the location at that time)to go home and had to wait to cross as Eisenhower was coming down the street (Atlantic Aveue.) He looked directly at me and smiled and waved. He struck me as very grandfatherly. I was 8 or 9 at the time I think.