Tim Van Schmidt
I wrote a letter to the President. I thought I would ask him a question.
I sent my letter to the Press Office in the White House, thinking maybe my august position as a freelancer writing for the North Forty News might work.
I pleaded my case that I was a senior writer looking at “retirement” and that working a White House press conference had always been a dream of mine.
NOCO calling – White House, Washington DC; Photo by Tim Van Schmidt
Then, I tried to ask a question of gravity: “Everything seems so confused and conflicted in the United States today. Where do we find hope for our country?”