The first person who contacted us was the assistant to President Eisenhower... in the White House.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have worked with Presidents since Eisenhower. We serve together.
When you work in the White House you talk to the White House staff all day, so you're talking to the guy who handles the congressional liaison and the guy who's handling domestic politics and the guy who's handling the American economy and so forth.
I met senators, diplomats and the President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
The first time I met President Obama was 2006 in Baghdad. He was the senator from Illinois; it was a month before he actually ended up declaring. He had to come to Baghdad to kind of check that box, and I was the correspondent for 'Newsweek' at the time.
It's time we had a president who stood up for American workers first.
I vividly remember my first day on the White House staff. My office, of course, was in the Old Executive Office Building. I didn't rate one in the West Wing; but don't try to tell me or any of the rest of us working there that we weren't working in the White House.
I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration.
The first president I met was L. B. J.
I was in the trade field as White House fellow in the first Bush administration.
Kennedy invited us into the White House-the first time in the history of the White House picketers had been invited inside. This made front page headlines.