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Originally Posted by snowy
Jesse Jackson during the 2000 election...he came to my university to give a talk.
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I also forgot Gloria Steinem. She came during the 2000 election too.
Many years ago, in 1993, my family went to San Francisco on a family vacation. We were staying at the St. Francis in Union Square. One morning Dad decided our tourist destination of the day would be Fisherman's Wharf, so we got on the cable car and went down there. We didn't bother to eat breakfast before we went; he said we could get breakfast down there. As we were walking along the wharf, he spotted a McDonalds and asked my mom if that was where she wanted to eat breakfast. My mom looked down the wharf and saw a place called Lou's open for breakfast. She doesn't like McDonalds, so Lou's it was.
About halfway through our meal, these guys with suits start swarming past the restaurant's window onto the street. A week before, some guy had gone into an office building in San Francisco and shot up a bunch of office workers, so immediately my parents were hypervigilant. Then, one of the restaurant staff yelled out, "It's the President!" President Clinton was in town speaking to the national teacher's convention at Moscone. I rushed to the window just as he walked by on his cool-down walk after his morning jog. I knocked on it to get his attention and he waved back at me, smiling.
I relayed this story to my former 5th grade teacher that fall, knowing she had gone to the convention and had seen President Clinton speak. She was so irritated that I got to see him more up-close than she had.