that much impact. so i thought i would look at cultural influences. so now there s so many ways to find out so i put it all together and made a book. what was your most interesting finding as you dug into this? woodrow wilson was our only phd president. i found that appeal. so i was curious. he wasn t that big a reader as president but he loved theater. he saw 250 plays as president and his favorite genre was vaud ville. so he liked a good pie in the face as much as the next guy. we found out that he also played 1200 rounds of golf. what about the image? did that create the same kind of image that today would do? interesting with wilson and his theater going during world war one that the washington post was in favor of him going to the theater in wartime. today you see sometimes critical appraisals. but wilson was praised because it helped keep the theatrical industry alive. so times have changed. i think that presidents should enjoy their leisure time. obviously yo
much impact. i looked at cultural influences. now thanks to the internet, there are so many ways to find out what presidents have watched, read, tweeted, i put them together to take a look. what was the most interesting finding as you dug into this? wood row wilson was the only phd. president and phd. i found that appealing. he wasn t that big a reader but he loved theater. he saw 250 plays as president. his favorite genre is vaudeville. he thought a hook across the stage or a pie in the face as much as the next guy. we found out when scott burge was here that he played 1200 rounds of golf. what about the image? did that create the same kind of image today s golf would do? interesting is wilson and the theater going, world war i, the washington post editorialized in favor of wilson going to theater in wartime. you see the critical of the president playing golf or going to the theater. wilson was pratzed becau ee eee because it helped to keep that industry alive. you
from 1953 to 1956, there was a white house projectionist who wrote down every movie that the president saw and with one exception, who the president saw it with. the one exception is under kennedy. he saw a movie, we don t know who he saw it with. it s a treasure trove of all of the presidents were seeing at a particular time. the theater has been around for a long time and helpful to presidents trying to get people along on a vote. so, for example, george w. bush brought in ted kennedy to see 13 days which was a movie about john f. kennedy s experience of the cuban missile crisis that made john f. kennedy look good. so bush brought in ted kennedy and ended up working together on the no child left behind law. they were able to get that past the majority. who was on the record? he would not watch movies with robert mitchum in them because he had been arrested for marijuana possession. he would try to sneak movies with mitchum by eisenhower. when mitchum got up on the s
candlestick park. the last regular season home game is finished. and with it goes more than 50 years of history. i ve seen mays play for the baseball league. i was here at the catch in 1982. jerome ott is a life-long fan and was even a bartender here way back when. thank you. you know for the experience, for the game. for making people feel the way we did. maybe seattle loses, we ll be back. if seattle loses next week and the niners beat arizona, then we re going to be back here for the playoffs. saying good-bye again to candlestick. and i will be here too. hopefully you will too. i hope so too as the crowdstarts to go home. you don t have to go home, you just cant stay here as they are closing it up. i seriously hope that we will be back here, which means the 49ers will clinch home field advantage. we like long good-byes, right, joe? we do, exactly. thanks so much. all right, dennis, i think you owe him a cup of coffee. he called it. they were going to
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