Did you ever personally meet anyone that is on our coinage???
ksteelheader
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I met Mr. Eisenhower back in 1958 when I was a Cub Scout. It was at his farm in Gettysburg.
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<< <i>I met Mr. Eisenhower back in 1858 when he was a Cub Scout. It was at his farm in Gettysburg. >>
Damn Kenny....you ARE old!
it was a long time ago.
<< <i>Despite rumors to the contrary, I never actually knew Thomas Jefferson. I have studied him extensively, but I missed him by several years. I have met Lyndon Johnson, George W. Bush and Bob Dole, but I don't believe any of them are on our coins, so I would have to answer no. >>
Did you ever meet "Smilin' Cal" Coolidge?
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My understanding is that Bush (I) will be on the one of the presidential series coins at some point.
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Was face to face with Castro though....In Havana the day he took Havana....I was three and remember the day we flew out back to the States...was not a good time...it was the beginning of the Bay of Pigs.
Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."
I'll answer this thread for my Grandfather as well...
He was born in 1916 in VA and worked in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) when he was young building what it now known as Skyline Drive. I got him great book about the CCC and within it noticed a picture of him with FDR! He remembers it vividly. He didn't do much more than shake his hand but I thought it was worth sharing. Here's the pic:
And my grandfather is my only still living Grandparent. He just turned 90 in June! He loves coins as well and still finds wheat cents for me in change.
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Also met Ron Jeremy on a plane flight many years ago - Does that count for Marty's dollar coins?
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<< <i>I've seen Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson's grave. I've seen Peter the Philadelphia Mint eagle in his now stuffed condition. But never met anyone on our coins.
I'll answer this thread for my Grandfather as well...
He was born in 1916 in VA and worked in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) when he was young building what it now known as Skyline Drive. I got him great book about the CCC and within it noticed a picture of him with FDR! He remembers it vividly. He didn't do much more than shake his hand but I thought it was worth sharing. Here's the pic:
And my grandfather is my only still living Grandparent. He just turned 90 in June! He loves coins as well and still finds wheat cents for me in change.
That's pretty cool, Bob.
Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."
I didn't introduce myself but his initials are on so many coins this should count.
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<< <i>I've seen Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson's grave. I've seen Peter the Philadelphia Mint eagle in his now stuffed condition. But never met anyone on our coins.
I'll answer this thread for my Grandfather as well...
He was born in 1916 in VA and worked in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) when he was young building what it now known as Skyline Drive. I got him great book about the CCC and within it noticed a picture of him with FDR! He remembers it vividly. He didn't do much more than shake his hand but I thought it was worth sharing. Here's the pic:
And my grandfather is my only still living Grandparent. He just turned 90 in June! He loves coins as well and still finds wheat cents for me in change.
That's pretty cool, Bob. >>
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<< <i>I've seen Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson's grave. I've seen Peter the Philadelphia Mint eagle in his now stuffed condition. But never met anyone on our coins.
I'll answer this thread for my Grandfather as well...
He was born in 1916 in VA and worked in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) when he was young building what it now known as Skyline Drive. I got him great book about the CCC and within it noticed a picture of him with FDR! He remembers it vividly. He didn't do much more than shake his hand but I thought it was worth sharing. Here's the pic:
And my grandfather is my only still living Grandparent. He just turned 90 in June! He loves coins as well and still finds wheat cents for me in change.
That's pretty cool, Bob. >>
Ditto that!
Thats the best I can do.
<< <i>I'm jealous. I would love to have met FDR. >>
Very cool story, ksteelheader. You must be very proud of your grandpa.
He was a good President, he will be on a coin very soon, and has a commem in his honor already.
My dad met a few Pres' in his early days- but since he is gone that does not count.
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So far as the regular issues go the only two that would be possilbe are FDR and JFK. All of the others go back too far.
Edited to say - I forgot about Ike.
<< <i>Met both President & Mrs. Clinton while on security detail (They will be on coins soon). >>
I seriously doubt that.
<< <i>I've seen John Kerry, Walter Mondale and Jimmy Carter. I don't think that any of them will be making it to a commemorative or regular issue coin. >>
I think Carter may have a fair chance at it. He will be 82 this year. His time on the dollar coin doesn't come up for almost ten years. (Since he will have to have been dead for two years the only way to miss it will be to live for more than 8 more years at which point he would be 90. It's possible but the odds are stacked against him.)
<< <i>Met both President & Mrs. Clinton while on security detail (They will be on coins soon). >>
I seriously doubt that.
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No... seriously - I was a Security Policeman in the Air Force from 91-99. I guarded Air Force One on several occassions at different bases I was at, and was on an EST (Swat) detail when he visited Korea while I was there. I was assigned to the now Senator's plane and detail when she brought Chelsea through Hanscom AFB to go college hunting. I actually sat in that plane.
With the Presidents coins coming out he will be on one, and she will be on the 1st wives gold coins. I just wonder if she will also be on the presidential coins as well some day
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very cool picture and I hope your Grandfather records his stories from that time period.
I met James Roosevelt (FDR's son) and had a lengthy chat with him about people and events and was very impressed. Even though he served 5 terms in the House representing a congressional district in California, his political career never really reached the level it could have for reasons that are though to write about in a paragraph or less.
I also met Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater, George McGovern, Eugene McCarthy and Edmond G. Brown and even Edmond G. Brown, Jr. and others. As people, McGovern and Goldwater were truly the most sincere... McCarthy was the brightest and Reagan was the most polished.
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One of them will soon be on a coin.
Barbara Bush
Oliver North
Dan Quayle
Paul Harvey
Willard Scott
Terry Bradshaw
Jerry Linenger
Mary Lou Retton
Gallagher (my favorite
My other claim to fame was being friends with Frank Capra (movie director) and Walter Lantz (Woody Woodpecker) when I was young.
Yea, Clinton would be released in 2017, so he would have to be deceased by 2015, putting him at 68/69 that year, so chances are he'll still be around. I found this quote on a website (I had forgotton about the 2-year clause so had to go look it up).
The issuance dates for the first 37 presidential dollar coins is certain, carrying us until the year 2016. How many new presidential coins are minted beyond that is dependent on the number of living former presidents who die prior to 2014. Gerald Ford would be 101 years old in 2014; Jimmy Carter and George H.W. both turn 90 that year. Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, both born in 1946, would be 68 in 2014, so the odds are good they won't qualify for their presidential coins by then. And what of the person elected president in 2008, 2012, and 2016? New legislation will probably be written to address this touchy issue.
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<< <i>I met Mr. Eisenhower back in 1958 when I was a Cub Scout. It was at his farm in Gettysburg. >>
I thought you were going to brag about meeting George Washington
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Also, will the First Lady be passed over if she is still with us but the President is not?
I guess we have a few years to figure it all out.
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is john glenn on a coin?
was he running as a democrat? seems to me he was a republican. maybe my year is wrong.
Also met board member Daniel Carr and Mint employee John Mercanti, both of whom have designed some US coins.
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The same great-grandfather later broke and trained the horse that Theodore Roosevelt rode in the Illinois State fair.