Unconsciously, history | high school students who shook hands with the president later became presidents

Yang Jian

In 1958, Senator Kennedy had already emerged, appearing frequently, and was a strong candidate for the next president, which also aroused Churchill's interest. When he heard that the young senator had come to the Mediterranean to visit Mr. and Mrs. Joe (Kennedy's parents), Churchill decided to issue an invitation. He said to Onassis( the Greek ship king): "People say he is the material of the president, and I want to see the material of the president." The Kennedys couldn't wait to board Onassis's yacht and meet Churchill, who had been waiting for a long time. Jacqueline once recalled her husband's expectations: "He admired Churchill and wanted to meet him. He had never worshipped the great men of our time. Jacqueline herself was as excited as her husband. She was a student at Vaasa College 10 years ago, and on one occasion she shook hands with Churchill at Buckingham Palace for a lawn reception, and twice— like all girls, she ran to the end of the line to re-line up, waiting to shake hands with him again.

—Thomas Mayer, "When the Lion Roars: The Churchills and the Kennedys"

"I want to make sure I have a hand with the president"

Wednesday, January 20, 1993, bill Clinton's first day in the White House. For the first time of the day, Clinton led her mother, Virginia Kelly, to the rose garden next to the Oval Office and told her where he had shook Kennedy's hand 30 years earlier. This scene can be written at the beginning of "One Hundred Years of Solitude", and many years later... The high school that shakes hands with the president produces the president.

Flashback, July 24, 1963, was also a Wednesday, a sunny day. White House Rose Garden, the lawn is lush and eye-catching, the cherry blossom trees are luxuriant, the tulips are dormant in summer, and the roses are still blooming, and the whole garden is colorful and fragrant. It was written by First Lady Jacqueline, who presided over the renovation of the Rose Garden a year earlier.

The renovated Rose Garden is a great stage, not to play a political show sorry for the first lady's good taste. Kennedy is here to meet with representatives of the "Boy Nation", 98 high school students from all over the United States, a group of ambitious children. The meeting time was scheduled before lunch, and the little fart children had already gathered on the lawn, and every pimple was secreted in anticipation. Well, it's more like an interaction with fans of NFL legendary quarterback Tom Brady. Brady in the White House didn't keep fans waiting, he came out of the Oval Office, walking briskly, just like fans see on TV. On the steps of the Rose Garden, Kennedy gave a short, high-profile speech: Welcome to the White House. When you come here, it means that you are connected to some of the best people in American history. The work you have done, especially the support for the civil rights movement, is admirable and admirable. The courage and courage you have shown is rare even for governors. The future belongs to you, and the world belongs to you...

After moving on to an interactive session, Kennedy walked down the steps to shake hands with fans after receiving a T-shirt from The Junior Nation.

There is a teenager in the fan base, with a large head, fluffy and elastic hairstyle, and the doll's face has a strong calm. He squeezed up hard and took the middle of the front row. Babyface later wrote in his memoirs: "I want to make sure I shake hands with the president, even if he only shakes hands with two or three of us." He was worried, and Kennedy shook hands with all the little farts present. As the youngest president-elect in U.S. history, there is an indescribable pleasure in the feeling of bringing the younger generation, and a satisfied smile remains in the video material. There's a photo that time has proven to be invaluable, and it's a photo of Babyface shaking hands with Kennedy. In hindsight, it was a handshake between two U.S. presidents called "Clinton Meets Kennedy."

"Clinton Meets Kennedy" (1963)

"Clinton met Kennedy", the right to describe, interpret and exclamate it belongs only to Clinton. Time was stingy with Kennedy, no, it should be said to be cruel, he had no chance to verify which hand he held would create the future, nor was he authorized to take apart the blind box he had assembled by hand. And Clinton still has a long way to go.

The summer of meeting Kennedy was 25 days before Clinton's 17th birthday. Originally from Hot Springs, Arkansas, Baby is a sophomore at Hot Springs High School. In a city where gambling is just as famous as hot springs, Clinton started by catching a bad card. He was the widow, and three months before he was born, his biological father died of drowning after a car accident. His impression of his biological father comes from the narration of acquaintances around him. When he was 4 years old, his mother, Virginia, remarried him to a Buick dealer named Roger Clinton. The stepfather is two sides of the same coin, a generous "father" when sober, and a mischievous thug when drunk. Once, after drinking, the mob drew a gun and shot at Virginia mother and son. The presence of alcoholics was a positive factor for Clinton, giving him an early understanding of the complexity and variability of human nature. Families with a large population of alcoholics are Clinton's preschool textbooks for dealing with public affairs.

But before high school, there was no sign that Clinton would "catch a bad card and play well." The first bit of experience in fighting monsters to upgrade comes from the "Junior Nation". The "Junior Nation" program began in 1946, the year Clinton was born, and was created by a group of World War II veterans. The aim is to make the little farts who claim to be "born for politics" find a sense of home in the world of politics. During the summer of her freshman year of high school, Clinton participated in the interstate "Junior Nation" event. In the summer of his sophomore year of high school, he participated in the "Junior Nation" activities in the United States as the "elected congressman" of Arkansas. 98 chosen sons gathered at the University of Maryland for a week-long training of debates, speeches, canvassing, voting, and campaigns that simulated the operation of the U.S. government. As a reward, during the training, 98 high school students were invited to nearby Washington to meet with their simulated subjects. Needless to say, the handshake in the Rose Garden was the climax of the trip to Washington, and the monster escalation brushed to the big boss in the United States.

Shaking hands with Kennedy is considered the starting point for Clinton to enter politics and even to the presidency. After becoming president, Clinton once used a hymn to the American dream to elevate the significance of the handshake -

I know very well that I can excel in public service. What I'm most interested in is people, politics, policy, and I think I can do it myself without family wealth, without relationships, without the race or other roots that the South values. Of course, this is unlikely, but isn't it this possibility that is special about the United States?

Clinton is indeed a "special one" in "Special America," and he makes all the low-probability possibilities bow to him.

In cases of success through personal struggle, 99% of the motivation is the self-realization of psychological expectations, and the remaining 1% is the envy of others. It is strange that after returning to Hot Springs after completing the "Junior Nation" training, Clinton's testimonials in the face of the envious eyes did not make a big fuss about the handshake, but lightly wrote it over. A 17-year-old kid with restraint that is not commensurate with his age. Perhaps, his psychological expectations at that time were not high. In the future, a senator will be a democrat, naturally the Democratic Party, Kennedy's party.

In the eyes of another little fart, Clinton's desire was stronger. On the bus back to Maryland after a trip to Washington, Clinton said inexplicably to his neighbor: "Maybe one day, I'll get his [Kennedy]'s job too." The neighbor's name is Jim Ramstad, and unlike Clinton, who comes from a working family, he is the son of a wealthy family from Minnesota. Ramstad later became a member of the House of Representatives, a Republican, known in Washington politician circles for being well-dressed and flamboyant.

The two little fart children are both winners in life when they become adults, and they watch themselves live an inspirational story. Time is so beautiful, like a patient coachman, staying for them anytime, anywhere.

Second, "Overall, I think everything is not bad"

When he shook hands with Clinton, it was four months before Kennedy shook hands with Death.

Four months before meeting Death, Kennedy was enjoying being president. For the first two years of his term, Kennedy was still doubting whether he was fit to be president. By 1963, he and his position were already the original screws and nuts. Of course, there are not few troubles, and there are many troubles – tax reform, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam issue, nuclear arms control negotiations, the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and so on. Any mishandling of anything will cause his political fortunes to be reversed in an instant.

But for Xueba, the teacher assigned a bunch of brain-burning homework, in addition to the challenge, more of adrenal activation of the excitement. Everyone who has seen Kennedy in the White House can clearly feel the intoxication of his drama. Newsweek reporter James Cannon was one of the witnesses, and Kennedy said in an interview with him: "I think I'm not bad. You know, we do have ups and downs, ups and downs. Overall, I think everything is not bad. The president said as he rubbed his hand on the crocodile leather table, which was a gift from de Gaulle.

The future president will certainly not have the opportunity to see the president's subconscious small actions. "Clinton Meets Kennedy" happened in the Rose Garden, and Clinton was denied access to Kennedy's Oval Office. He will be the owner of the place in 30 years. Clinton in July 1963 was just a high school student who came to the White House for hajj. In just a few seconds of shaking hands, he was enlightened by the radiant idol. That month was the highest sugar-sharing stage during the honeymoon period between idols and presidential offices. If Clinton had felt sharp enough, kennedy seemed to be immersed in something wonderful.

What Made Kennedy suck his fingers was a speech called "I Am a Berliner", a speech that made him show his talent for reading comparative sentences to the fullest. On June 26, 1963, almost a month before shaking hands with Clinton, Kennedy gave a performance comparable to the Golden Bear in front of 500,000 restless citizens in the town hall square of West Berlin. The careful handling of tone, posture and eyes creates a shocking atmosphere of the Return of Christ. The five sentences in the speech, which end with "Let them come to Berlin," push the scene of divine revelation to the brink of loss of control. Looking at the hysterical crowd, the speaker said to military adviser McHugh: "If I let them tear down the Berlin Wall now, they will do the same." ”

Kennedy had reason to be proud because, in "I Am a Berliner," he became the popular lover of humanity west of the Berlin Wall. Judging from the actual results, this speech is the most dazzling blow of the US side in the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union since the construction of the Berlin Wall. Kennedy himself had the upper hand in the battle against Khrushchev, uh, an aggressive Russian. The month after the Berlin speech, the United States and the Soviet Union reached an agreement on a partial ban on nuclear testing.

Along with the great events of the God-making movement, Clinton can see it on television. It's just that for a moment and a half, he still can't fully understand the working mechanism behind the big picture. What 17-year-old high school students can do is add to the good words and good sentences to the manuscript: "Freedom has many difficulties, democracy is not perfect, but we do not need to build walls and encircle our own people in it", the former is "Don't ask what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

A man who does great things for the country does not care about the small things he does for a small child, that is not a thing at all. In the schedule of the president's official activities, the morning of July 24, 1963, the reception of representatives of the "Young Nation", was purely a tidbits of after-effect. During the afternoon meal, Kennedy was discussing the elderly care bill with Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, and allocating funds for the health program was a top priority in July. Admittedly, the president opened his mouth and said, "You have connected with some of the best people in American history." Maybe he would occasionally flash his hand, and he shook hands to encourage the little fart boy that someone would be able to sit in his seat in the future. As for which one is the lucky one, the one with glasses, the freckles, or the baby's face? Kennedy had no obligation to guess, and he would never know the answer. The baby's face gives the rose garden the meaning of shaking hands, which is a "arrow hit the target, then off the string" operation, is the expropriation of the past by people who have lived to the present. And Kennedy doesn't belong now.

On July 24, 1963, when the Rose Garden show was complete, Kennedy turned around and went back to the Oval Office, where he had bigger and more things to deal with and wouldn't spend a dime on reminiscing about what had just happened. A seasoned politician can always empty his mind of irrelevant information in the first place. In terms of the degree of concern, Jacqueline's body may be a little higher in order. The president and his wife's third child will be born, and the expected date of delivery is 50 days later.

Don't get me wrong, Kennedy is not a model husband, and his marriage to Jacqueline has never been harmonious. One judgment has stood the test of history, and the president and wife are typical ceremonial couples. Kennedy has many of the best in the history of the President of the United States, and the best color is undoubtedly a must, until the baby face that shakes hands with him enters the White House, and the crown is handed over to others. Long before she got married, Jacqueline had to endure Kennedy's affair. After becoming president, power became the aphrodisiac of Kennedy's special effects. Through the bridge bridge built by Senate Secretary Bob Baker, the president collected a lot of special objects from the wind and moon field: Suzzi Jang, a prostitute in New York, and Alan Romezi, from East Germany who is said to have worked as a typist in Ulbricht. Some of the girls didn't need Beck to pimp, and Kennedy was included in the account, and they were White House interns, and Mimi Alfred was one of the most famous. Haha, the tricks that babyfaces rely on to become famous in the future have long been played by the elders. Also on the list was Marilyn Monroe, who was as ambitious as her breasts, and who had died suddenly in her Los Angeles apartment in August of the previous year.

For the scandals in her husband's private life, Jacqueline has always taken a blind attitude. To exist is to catch adultery in bed, and vice versa does not exist. The first lady is no different from the women of the world in her efforts to maintain marriage. This time Jacqueline is pregnant and waiting to give birth, indicating that the relationship between the ceremonial couple has been substantially repaired. The nation is waiting for the birth of a child who will be the first son of a serving president born in the White House in 46 years after Cleveland's youngest daughter, Marion.

It may be that sensing people's eagerness, the child was born prematurely. On August 7, 1963, Patrick Kennedy died five weeks early. Coincidentally, premature babies suffer from respiratory syndrome and stay in the world for less than two days. The father of the breed held the baby's lifeless little hand, crying heartbrokenly, and he nagged to those around him: "It is against the laws of nature to let parents bury their children." Close to him was White House special adviser David Bowles, the president's charismatic partner who had shared Mimi Alfred with Kennedy.

The pain caused by the early death of a child cannot be discharged by talking about it. The shadow of death hung over Kennedy, and no, the shadow of death always hung over his family. The story of the Kennedy family is a long list of obituaries, Patrick Kennedy is a humble name in the obituary, and his father John F. Kennedy will be a bold name.

Kennedy didn't know that he was very close to the end of his life. But the fear of his untimely death has always bothered him. On the one hand, because of the successive ineffectual disasters of the family members, on the other hand, it lies in his own health. Kennedy grew up with spinal bulbar muscular atrophy and has long relied on antibiotics and painkillers to relieve back pain. He suspected that the illness would make him live less than 60 years old, or even 50 years old. If so, it means that he can't even complete two terms. Mr. President obviously thought too much, and he did not even survive a term. There was a small disagreement that led him to give up halfway not by illness, but by assassination.

Before his life was stopped, Kennedy was still on the run. As part of an upcoming campaign, Kennedy visited Texas in November 1963, accompanied by Jacqueline, who had just returned from a break from Europe. Ceremonial couples use this to declare to the public that they will come out of the pain of losing their children. On the 22nd, two cities in the state were arranged on the same day, Fort Worth in the morning and Dallas in the afternoon.

At 11:37 a.m., Air Force One landed at Dallas Ruffield Airport. Accompanied by Governor Connery, the Kennedys traveled to downtown Dallas in a luxury Continental Lincoln convertible where the president would deliver a speech at the trade fair. 250,000 Dallas citizens took to the streets to see the president and his wife, mainly the first lady. Dressed in a pink suit, wearing a rounded rimless hat, and holding fiery red roses, Jacqueline was simply mesmerized.

At 12:28 p.m., the Lincoln Convertible turned left from Houston Avenue and pulled onto Elm Avenue to the right of Dealey Square. As the crowd gradually decreased, and occasionally there were a few disgruntled boos, Kennedy smiled and waved to the crowd. Overall, he thinks everything is fine. On the sixth floor of the Texas textbook warehouse, a former U.S. Marine Corps marksman and supporter of the Cuban Revolution, Lee Harvey Oswald, waits for him at the window.

When the hour came, Oswald used a cheap, Italian-made 6.5mm Carcano rifle to wipe the youngest, most charismatic, and most provocative president in American history from the face of the earth.

"I want to go back to Washington"

News of Kennedy's assassination came, and Clinton was in her fourth class of the day. Calculus, a course that relies on intuition rather than intelligence. Halfway through the class, some of the stodgy Mr. Coey was called to the office. Intuition told Clinton that something big was going to happen. After a while, Coey returned to the classroom, pale, his lips trembling, and his words incoherent: President Kennedy was shot in Dallas, may have been killed, may...

It was CBS rushed to the news, about ten minutes after the gunshots rang out. An hour later, the Associated Press officially broadcast Kennedy's death: "Two pastors walked out of the hospital's emergency ward and announced that the president had died of a gunshot wound. Clinton was stunned, sad and incredulous. The man who had touched his palm in the Rose Garden four months earlier, a man full of power and life, suddenly disappeared from the world. Many of the things that man said and did were the material for building his worldview. Today's world is in a vacuum, and people are at a loss. At Kennedy's funeral three days later, the speech of the successor President, Lyndon Johnson, represented the voice of the people: If I can not stand here at this moment, I am willing to give everything I have.

No hypothesis saved Kennedy's life, and "Clinton met Kennedy" shortly after losing Kennedy. The opponent play that said good had to be performed by Clinton alone against the curtain. In fact, there was no pre-programmed script, and it was only because Clinton was so good that people took it for granted that it was a rival play. And the man who withdrew, never meant to cooperate with Clinton's performance, he didn't know it, he didn't do it, he didn't do anything.

The following stories, Kennedy has no right to listen to. The story tells how a little fart child in hot spring city drew a path for himself to get the job in the White House.

In 1964, the year after Kennedy's assassination, Clinton graduated from high school. On march's graduation exam, he ranked fourth out of 327 students, and had better places to go, such as the Ivy League school in New England. Incredibly, he applied to Georgetown University's Foreign Affairs College, the only school he applied to. Clinton was in no hurry to become an ambassador abroad, and had not even visited the campus when he went to the Rose Garden appointment the previous year. Georgetown University was chosen only because the school is in Washington. Clinton made it very clear, "I want to go back to Washington." Yes, the job he envisioned was in Washington.

In September, when the new students reported, Clinton learned that Georgetown University was really close to the president, and there were two girls in his class who deserved to be introduced fiercely.

One is a girl with big wavy curly hair, who plays with John King, the helmsman of the school rowing team, and when she is in a good mood, she will take her boyfriend to the White House for dinner, her name is Lucy Johnson, her father's name is Lyndon Johnson, the one who delivered the eulogy at Kennedy's funeral;

The other was a small but energetic Asian girl named Gloria Macapagal, whose father was Diosdado Macapagal, then president of the Philippines. In her sophomore year, Gloria fell in love with fellow countryman José Arroyo at first sight. Falling in love delayed her studies, and Gloria returned to China to get married before graduating. After marriage, Gloria became the famous Lady Arroyo with her husband's surname. On January 20, 2001, the same day that Clinton stepped down as president, Mrs. Arroyo became president of the Philippines.

In a class with two presidents, it was Clinton who headed the class. A baby-faced youth from a small place in the south, he has a sleek and mellow personality, a personality that is naturally suitable for dealing with voters. He can quietly capture people's hearts in games that invite bystanders to stand in line. As Bob Billingsley, who nominated him as class president, said, "This boy can get things done, and he's pretty." To put it bluntly, during the squad leader campaign, Lucy Johnson's boyfriend, John King, who often went to the White House to rub dinner, also helped a lot, and he worked hard to solicit votes for Clinton.

During college and beyond, Clinton's real nobility was William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He brought Clinton, who was keen on public affairs, into the house of American politics. Fulbright was a Wilsonian Democrat, the main spokesman for the dovish faction in politics, and Clinton had a relationship with him. On July 22, 1963, about two days before the Rose Garden, representatives of the "Junior Nation" visited the Houses of Parliament. As a senator from Arkansas, Fulbright had lunch with Clinton. The meal was not eaten for free, and the high school student silently wrote down the senator's name. In the second half of her sophomore year, Clinton wrote a cover letter to Fulbright in a respectful and humble tone. That summer, he received a call from the senator's administrative assistant: There was a vacancy in the Foreign Affairs Committee for a clerical position, and Fulbright approved of you. $5,000 per month for full-time and $3,500 per month for part-time work. College students are a little overwhelmed if they are hand-picked: How about two part-time jobs?

As Clinton climbs the ladder of power, he will find that the feeling of being climbed produces an intracranial orgasm. On September 10, 2000, the men's singles final of the US Open, with clinton still four months to leave, visited the USTA Tennis Center in New York, and he was invited to an exclusive box by a real estate developer wearing a baseball cap. The multi-blood real estate developer graciously shook hands with the president and respectfully introduced his beautiful fiancée to the president. The real estate developer is the same as the president, named Trump, and his Slovenian fiancée is called Melania. Later, the real estate developer also became the president, and it was Hillary Clinton who defeated in the election. The moment the two presidents shook hands in the box, U.S. national hero Sampras was bloodied on the court by Russian Safin. Year after year, new York was hit by a terrorist attack.

Back in the mid-1960s, Clinton, a college student at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Affairs, learned under Fulbright what he couldn't learn in the classroom. In addition, the self-made senator, his experience is like stepping forward for his part-time clerk. The rhythm of the two is almost a copy-paste after a little half a century. In 1925, Fulbright was funded by a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University. In 1968, Clinton also relied on a Rhodes scholarship to start a study tour of Oxford. Fulbright returned home with a gold plate and taught at the University of Arkansas after earning his J.D. at home. At the age of 34, Fulbright rose to president of the University of Arkansas, becoming the youngest president of a major U.S. university. Clinton returned to Oxford and was admitted to Yale Law School, where she taught at the University of Arkansas after her Ph.D.

Both teach and excel. Fulbright made his way to the rank of senator, Clinton took a slightly bigger step, and on January 20, 1993, he got Kennedy's job. In Clinton's inaugural address, there was a sentence that seemed to be a summary of a fake prophecy. He said that anyone who has ever noticed a child's hazy eyes falling asleep knows what future generations are, and that future generations are the future world.

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On July 24, 1993, exactly 30 years after "Clinton met Kennedy," Clinton received the new representative of the "Junior Nation," or the White House Rose Garden. Representatives of the "Junior Nation" who served as Clinton 30 years ago were also invited back to the White House. Clinton, like his idol, Kennedy, shook hands and took photos with all the little farts present. Everything in front of me made the little fart child of the year have mixed feelings. A moment of reunion is also a moment of a group of middle-aged people. Vice President Albert Gore, who was talking at the White House, quipped to a few boys: "I have a suggestion, you should keep the photos of the president shaking hands, which may come in handy in the future." The president then said: I hope that one day some of the people in the photo will appear on the campaign ads.

One day, a new blind box opens, and who will hold it?

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