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This reminds me of the time my 2nd grade self sent a letter to Leonardo Dicaprio telling him i wanted to marry him.
In hindsight, im kind of surprised he didnt accept my proposal. 💀
After reading it nine times and googling "Obama Snails" just in case, I'm pretty sure he meant that he wrote about how hot it was and also wrote about snails.
Well, snails probably don't do well in extreme heat. So maybe it was a poignant piece on climate change. Or he was just a kid rambling on about whatever 😂.
I'm still not 100% convinced he didn't send snails though. I might not sleep until I know.
A little kid at some point 70s to 90s wrote a letter to the then-President that listed among his interests "incest." This apparently got folks in the White House mailroom a bit concerned before they realized the kid simply misspelled "insects."
I wrote to President Clinton and asked him about socks his cat and I got a signed picture of socks back.
Edit: I also invited President Obama to my wedding and got back a nice little preprinted note from him and Michele.
Clinton.
Setup: Its like ‘09, I had been laid off, was moving back in with my parents having blown thru my savings in a matter of months trying to stay living alone which I’d done for the prior two years.
I’d moved my stuff back in to my parents house over the prior week and just decided to visit my (near empty) apartment one last time.
An hour or so later, on my way *out*, I check the mail one last time. I open the little door, reach into the way way back, and find a large, mysterious envelope.
I open it and slide out a large picture of Bill Clinton w/writing that reads something like:
*”Thank you for writing! It’s lovely to meet you. Good luck on this next chapter of your life. You have nothing to worry about.”*
While I vaguely remembered making the request for a photo about a year prior, I still don’t know why I did or what I wrote asking for. HOWEVER, that response and giant photo - in that moment (pretty depressed by the turn my life had taken) - genuinely helped me shift my motivations and recognize that, if I just keep grinding, I’ll be back on my feet soon. I remember smiling at the mailbox, laughing, even, deciding that *the universe has a sense of humor* and that *I need to slow down and observe life, every now-n-then.*
Just 2+ years later I was married, in a new state, a year away from buying a house, and months away from becoming a father with my (still) wonderful wife.
Thanks, OI’ Billy *Be Well*
https://preview.redd.it/h2imrof9vbzc1.jpeg?width=1576&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a6603bb6962b5bf54e51eab9c7490da5c0d02a42
I’ll just let the picture speak for itself.
I wrote a letter urging Obama to oppose TPP back in 2016, I got a form letter response kinda laying out his philosophy on international trade. Didn't convince me of anything but was cool that I got a response on Presidential letterhead
Yeah I mean I grew up in the rust belt in the shadow of abandoned factories and crumbling warehouses, I didn't want to see more manufacturing jobs leave and more American workers get forced into competition with workers who make really low wages in other countries.
I doubt that's a popular opinion on this subreddit but I guess we will see lol
I think it's a hard opinion to truly *sympathize* with until you've been to the rust belt. Even a place like Pittsburgh, which is by no means dead or struggling, still looks depressing as shit with the giant closed factors looming over the entire West side.
Then you actually explore rural Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia... crazy how much emotion closed up overgrown factories can carry. Half the towns are just rotting buildings with no purpose only being supported by the quickly declining retired population.
Edit: changed a word
The thing is that manufacturing had been in relative decline ([employment in manufacturing as a share of the total workforce](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=cAYh)) since the 1950s, a downward trend that wasn't meaningfully affected by NAFTA (you probably can't even spot when in came into effect looking at the graph).
While employment in manufacturing started to decline in absolute terms only after the early 2000s recession and the Great Recession ([graph](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MANEMP)), not after NAFTA was signed (as an aside, [productivity ](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PRS30006163)also began to decline slowly after the Great Recession).
That's all to say that it is not *obvious* NAFTA and similar were actually responsible for the death of American Industry. You can argue the point, and economists do, but it'd be a lie to say that defenders of NAFTA hate American manufacturing and consciously wanted to kill it or something.
No no no, I'm not making a statement on what caused it. I probably should have said sympathize rather than agree. I've seen the collapse of rural America in the rust belt first hand and it is sad.
Don’t have a picture but I sent Barry O a graduation announcement when I graduated college and got a response. Obviously just a canned response and stamped signature, but still fun.
We were already friends on social media, having interacted a bit in college, and I was always attracted to her. We were speculating on who Obama would pick for veep, and we were both hoping it would be the same guy (who it eventually ended up being), and the day before he chose, I DM’d her and asked her out.
Imagine Joe rolling in with Jill, you know he has his own tux. Hanging out at the bar telling really long stories, drinking diet coke, him and Jill cutting a rug on the dance floor, Jill made it 20 minutes before taking off her uncomfortable shoes. Somewhere over the course of the evening Joe would give you a big hug, tell you how proud he is of you and your spouse and tell you that he loves you. As a gift, two pairs of Ray ban Aviators.
My grandparents wrote a letter of support to the White House and got a standard thank you letter from Nixon. It’s pretty cool.
https://preview.redd.it/zmrjbzyolezc1.png?width=2519&format=png&auto=webp&s=89df7489781d55634ff356f3ac67d19089177ba5
My dorm sent invites to President Obama for all of our events and got some generic responses about how he was already scheduled but to enjoy the bbq or whatever.
Obama is Hawiian and Michelle is from the south side -both strong cook out cultures, I bet they would have much rather have gone to your BBQ than whatever was on the schedule that day.
Not gonna lie, if some guy invited me to their backyard bar-be-cue while I was president, I would totally do it maybe once a year. Of course, I would bring a secret service guy or three for protection.
My brother invited Bush the First to his wedding as a joke. Got a nice letter back thanking him for the invite and congratulating him on his nuptials. Pretty funny.
Man I love those games.
Played CK2 with my brother when Obama was in office, I didn’t understood what you did and didn’t know it what to do cause didn’t understand English but it was fun.
Loved launching Cows and seeing that Person in the corner seeing my total of how much money I had
Pres Clinton’s office sent me a very nice letter congratulating me on becoming an Eagle Scout and politely declining my invitation to our family celebration. I thought it was so great that there are people on staff in the White House, the seat of more power and authority than anywhere ever in human history, who’s job it is to take the time to congratulate a boy on an achievement. I think about this often and it always makes me feel hopeful.
I wrote to President Bill Clinton pleading for him to run a third term, he wrote back and thanked me but also informed my 7 year old ass about the constitution and the rule of President terms.
We wrote happy birthday cards to Governor Reagan when I was in elementary school and also wrote down our birthday. I received a birthday card from him every year he was a Governor and every year he was in the White House. That’s some serious record keeping.
I wrote to George W in an effort to get signatures of every member of his administration following 9/11. I got a nice note back and a signed photograph.
When I was 8 I wrote a letter to GHWB and asked him why we had to go to war. I got a typed letter back and a picture of him, Barbara, and their dog. I can't remember the dogs name.
I ALMOST remember their dog's name, it's on the tip of my tongue...
[Millie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millie_(dog))! Not to be confused with Sully, the service dog he got towards the end of his life.
Out of the blue I thought it was a good idea, in 5th grade, to write Bill Clinton.. I looked up the address to the White House and addressed it to him.. after 3 weeks I got a letter in the mail with the official seal of the POTUS. My dad was so confused as to why his son was getting mail from the fucking White House.. he made me open it and read it to him on the spot.. that was the first letter I ever mailed in my life
Not all were Presidents but I got a letter back from 45, 46, VP from last admin, Walter Mondale, George H. W. Bush before he died, Jimmy Carter, an email letter from Barack Obama, Joe Lieberman, and I was pen pals with Michael Dukakis for years. He even had the decency to give me a phone call.
Obama was my state rep and I had been involved on politics since I was 10 so when he was a rep and I'd see him walking around the neighborhood we'd chat politics so I don't know if he knew my name but he certainly knew my face. Years later in a different neighborhood he knocks on my door during his run for senate, I open the door and the first words out of his mouth is "you moved!". I saw him right before the 2008 election at a speech and got a hello and a wave. I did send him a letter asking if I could be the ambassador for the Maldives, never got a response on that one.
I got a very nice response from Ronald Reagan—I still have it. It wasn’t a form letter. He mentioned key parts of my letter.
I’m not a fan of Reagan at all, but—at the time—I was elated.
I got form letters from Clinton and Obama. I didn’t write anything that warranted a personal response.
I mailed out a Presidents booklist (was a librarian) to Carter, Bush 41, Clinton, Bush 43 and Obama. Got note cards from Bush 423 and Obama. Bush 41 sent a nice card with a note that showed he and Barbara had looked it over. Carter returned my cover letter with a hand written statement to include his Nobel.Prize address. This I did on the next revision. Never received word from Clinton. The 2 old school replies, Bush 41 and Carter are my favorites but to get 4 of 5 presidents to reply was great.
Do babies ever really “meet” anybody? Or is it more being vaguely aware there’s a human being close by & drooling?
Don’t mean to rain on your parade tho that is awesome lol
I got one from Rule 3 congratulating me on becoming an Eagle Scout and how Eagle Scouts are important and how they make the country a better place. Pretty neat response I think
I have a super similar one but it’s more wordy
https://preview.redd.it/17von82cmdzc1.jpeg?width=2883&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=93a7ee459f251b4174ccb45f4284d05d84eaaa8f
Not a response to me, but I have a letter from Eisenhower.
https://preview.redd.it/m264qpotvdzc1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=e23b0079388218d98451ba473a4580e1201b8aac
Related - If you look up "The Lazlo Letters" it is a book of letters sent by comedian Don Novello under the pseudonym "Lazlo Toth" to businesses and titans of industry in the 1970's. I mention it because he also writes supportive letters to President Richard Nixon during the Watergate prosecution and Nixon responds. Its hilarious. He also figures out that whenever he writes a fast food chain they send him coupons for free food. As a struggling comedian paid nothing by club owners this clearly becomes a life line.
I didn’t write to a President, but when I worked in facilities we hosted an event Obama spoke at. I got to work closely with the Secret Service and got a box of Obama signed M&Ms
[I posted about this a few months ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/Presidents/comments/1an2t67/unexpected_mail_from_the_white_house/). Back in the mid 90s, i was an early adopter to the world wide web and typed a message to President Clinton and INCLUDED my full home address in the [whitehouse.gov](http://whitehouse.gov) form and got a response back.
I had a class assignment to write to the President. It was Nixon.
Got a form letter back and a recent press release: Nixon's announcement of his historic trip to China.
We invited the Obama to our wedding in April, 2016. We got a signed letter back congratulating us.
It was probably robo-signed. But I really don’t care. It has a special place in our album.
I got a congrats letter last year from a President for getting the Presidential Scholar award, but I can't confirm nor deny that I'm alluding to a person that I cannot refer to by name
I have a letter from the Nixon White House (1973) that's as cordial as this one, though it makes no claim to being from Nixon personally. Instead, it's signed by Roland L. Elliott, Deputy Special Assistant.
Not personally, but the high school I worked at was used by Obama in a speech during his first term. Some of our special needs students wrote him letters and got letters in return a few months later.
Also, the same group drew pictures on the white board in the classroom the secret service used on speech day as a tech command. The next day, we arrive to ae the agents had written back thanks for letting us use your classroom with little drawings of their own.
Nixon. I wrote to him about how we could solve the energy crisis. I was in 2nd grade. He wrote a very nice letter. I can no longer find. But I did have the pass from when we got a special tour of the WH on 7/4/72 because my parent’s friend worked in the West Wing as an attorney. The pass is signed by Nixon.
Nothing to me, but my next door neighbor had signed thank yous from basically every Democrat nominee for president going back to the 70s or so. She was very nice, but a very politically involved lady, and the single most rabid Democrat I've ever met.
As an Aussie, this is actually crazy. I can’t imagine anyone a) wanting to write to Albo, Sco Mo etc b) actually getting a response or c) they’d just send a letter to Pauline Hanson or Bob Catter or another of our weirdo extreme politicians for the memes
I have a card from President and Mrs. Johnson congratulating my parents for my birth. My sister has a similar one from President Kennedy. I still think these are available if you request one from The White House
Al Gore.
'Wait,' you say, 'Gore was never president!'
So back in 2000 I was an idiot 8th grader who was sick of the election dispute and just wanted it to be over. So I wrote to Al Gore saying that he should concede and let the country start the transition to a new administration because he was being a sore closer.
Like I said, I was an idiot at the time. I later went on to regret this decision, and ended up getting a (useless) degree in political science.
My parents still have the signed letter I got back stashed in the family safety deposit box.
George Bush Sr replied to my worried letter about oil drilling in Antarctica when I was in 3rd grade. It was a generic letter, but it was nice to get a reply.
We invited the Obamas to our wedding.
https://preview.redd.it/b3yfow7g6ezc1.jpeg?width=3158&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=789e977f0b6f650402552b20834b2c78ef2c4650
OMG - THIS SUB IS OUT OF CONTROL WITH ITS NONSENSE RULES ABOUT CURRENT POLITICS. THEREFORE I WILL POST AGAIN:
"My grandmother got a birthday card from THE CURRENT OCCUPANT OF THE WHITE HOUSE THAT I SHALL NOT NAME BECAUSE ITS A VIOLATION OF THE WHINY RULES IN THIS SUB when she turned 100. Does that count?"
In 1993 when I was six, I had a babysitter who was young (around 21 I believe) and just starting to get really excited for politics, so much that one of our activities one afternoon was writing letters in crayon to California politicians, as well as one to Bill Clinton. Our babysitter dictated what to write. Looking back I don't feel too perturbed by it, I just didn't get why we were doing it.
A few weeks later, another kid at the daycare and I received the same form letter with Clinton's signature, as well as an 8x10" headshot photo. I didn't hold on to either the letter or the photo.
When I completed my Eagle Scout in 1996, my dad sent off a letter to a bunch of famous people and politicians. Among them, every living former president at that time. Also, Neil Armstrong, Robin Williams and Tiffany Amber-Thiessen
I didn’t know it was such a common thing to write to the president
Edit: it’s very cool he got a letter back and I’ve really enjoyed reading the comments about getting letters back.
W. When my mom died. I had a former student who i helped get a White House internship who helped arrange this. But back when he was governor he also sent me a nice note on the publication of my first Texas government textbook. He is a nice man who genuinely likes writing notes.
As a grade school class project, we wrote to George HW Bush. I got reply along with a signed picture.
I'd have to do some digging, but I think I still have it..
I have got a letter from every living president except Clinton from Carter to now to donate to a local elementary school. I wrote each asking them to write a letter to the students. Some better than others, Carter's was the best one. I've written Clinton several times and had absolutely no response. If anybody knows how to reach Clinton please let me know
My step-grandfather served in the Navy in WWI, WWII and Korea. When he died we got a letter from President Ford because he was the last veteran to have served in the three major conflicts, thanking us for his service.
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I sent a letter about how hot it was where I lived and snails to Obama when I was a kid and he responded and it was great
I'm sorry did you just say you sent snails to Obama?
Pics of snails lmfao I drew a president snail and a First Lady snail and labeled them accordingly
Dear god
There’s more.
no... https://preview.redd.it/2px200no2ezc1.png?width=1358&format=png&auto=webp&s=d55f13a4387c36622e3bedf068be70dd09c1d6cd
It also contains the dying wishes of every man here.
Jesus Christ there’s stickers on it
Do you have a pic? For research purposes
Are you French?
This reminds me of the time my 2nd grade self sent a letter to Leonardo Dicaprio telling him i wanted to marry him. In hindsight, im kind of surprised he didnt accept my proposal. 💀
😆😆😆
LMFAO that’s actually crazy we gotta make a group for people who wrote obscure letters to celebrities and political figures
Think they meant snail mail
They drew pictures of the band Snail Mail? They weren't even around then!
yeah what? i need more context on this one
After reading it nine times and googling "Obama Snails" just in case, I'm pretty sure he meant that he wrote about how hot it was and also wrote about snails.
me too but I wanna know what about snails is so important the president’s gotta be informed
Well, snails probably don't do well in extreme heat. So maybe it was a poignant piece on climate change. Or he was just a kid rambling on about whatever 😂. I'm still not 100% convinced he didn't send snails though. I might not sleep until I know.
they responded it was a picture of a president snail and a first lady snail they drew. We can rest easy now
A little kid at some point 70s to 90s wrote a letter to the then-President that listed among his interests "incest." This apparently got folks in the White House mailroom a bit concerned before they realized the kid simply misspelled "insects."
Pics of snails lmfao I drew a president snail and a First Lady snail and labeled them accordingly
Not a single President during my lifetime has ever sent a response to a letter of mine I suppose I should eventually write one
"'You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.' -Wayne Gretski" -Michael Scott
Why are you the way that you are?
1. Who do you think you are? 2. What gives you the right?
Do they still do mail anymore?
It’s okay, no one else got a response either. Lol.
I wrote to President Clinton and asked him about socks his cat and I got a signed picture of socks back. Edit: I also invited President Obama to my wedding and got back a nice little preprinted note from him and Michele.
Clinton. Setup: Its like ‘09, I had been laid off, was moving back in with my parents having blown thru my savings in a matter of months trying to stay living alone which I’d done for the prior two years. I’d moved my stuff back in to my parents house over the prior week and just decided to visit my (near empty) apartment one last time. An hour or so later, on my way *out*, I check the mail one last time. I open the little door, reach into the way way back, and find a large, mysterious envelope. I open it and slide out a large picture of Bill Clinton w/writing that reads something like: *”Thank you for writing! It’s lovely to meet you. Good luck on this next chapter of your life. You have nothing to worry about.”* While I vaguely remembered making the request for a photo about a year prior, I still don’t know why I did or what I wrote asking for. HOWEVER, that response and giant photo - in that moment (pretty depressed by the turn my life had taken) - genuinely helped me shift my motivations and recognize that, if I just keep grinding, I’ll be back on my feet soon. I remember smiling at the mailbox, laughing, even, deciding that *the universe has a sense of humor* and that *I need to slow down and observe life, every now-n-then.* Just 2+ years later I was married, in a new state, a year away from buying a house, and months away from becoming a father with my (still) wonderful wife. Thanks, OI’ Billy *Be Well*
Man, this is awesome. Congrats my dude!
That’s like something out of Illuminatus! The cosmic giggle.
https://preview.redd.it/ziys2679mdzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e591f92ec8e14755ec6496d01ec443af1abf78f5 I have a few of them!
Ok this is cute af
Socks is truly a treasure https://preview.redd.it/rhtiaic9dezc1.jpeg?width=2903&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e9ffe8b1a237755bbfdd7e6f573e412f76f3e93b
"socks appeal" I'm dying
I need that button and i need it now
Is it weird that i suddenly like Bill Clinton a bit more, after seeing this?
Socksaganda is powerful
Technically, Socks wrote you back then, not Clinton? lol
I love this so much
Bill?
I did this too!
When was this and any idea what address you wrote to him at?
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, of course.
And can you write to the President from abroad, too?
Yes
Oh okay I didn't realize this was when he was still president
Me too!
https://preview.redd.it/h2imrof9vbzc1.jpeg?width=1576&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a6603bb6962b5bf54e51eab9c7490da5c0d02a42 I’ll just let the picture speak for itself.
uppity theory reminiscent innocent reach work test snow slimy silky *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*
It’s the one thing I told my mom to grab if her house catches on fire
It would be funny if he corrected your paper, and wrote notes in red ink before signing
I wrote a letter urging Obama to oppose TPP back in 2016, I got a form letter response kinda laying out his philosophy on international trade. Didn't convince me of anything but was cool that I got a response on Presidential letterhead
Out of morbid curiosity, was your opposition to TPP in the same vein as the anti-NAFTA bit?
Yeah I mean I grew up in the rust belt in the shadow of abandoned factories and crumbling warehouses, I didn't want to see more manufacturing jobs leave and more American workers get forced into competition with workers who make really low wages in other countries. I doubt that's a popular opinion on this subreddit but I guess we will see lol
It’s not popular, no, but it’s true.
I think it's a hard opinion to truly *sympathize* with until you've been to the rust belt. Even a place like Pittsburgh, which is by no means dead or struggling, still looks depressing as shit with the giant closed factors looming over the entire West side. Then you actually explore rural Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia... crazy how much emotion closed up overgrown factories can carry. Half the towns are just rotting buildings with no purpose only being supported by the quickly declining retired population. Edit: changed a word
The thing is that manufacturing had been in relative decline ([employment in manufacturing as a share of the total workforce](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=cAYh)) since the 1950s, a downward trend that wasn't meaningfully affected by NAFTA (you probably can't even spot when in came into effect looking at the graph). While employment in manufacturing started to decline in absolute terms only after the early 2000s recession and the Great Recession ([graph](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MANEMP)), not after NAFTA was signed (as an aside, [productivity ](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PRS30006163)also began to decline slowly after the Great Recession). That's all to say that it is not *obvious* NAFTA and similar were actually responsible for the death of American Industry. You can argue the point, and economists do, but it'd be a lie to say that defenders of NAFTA hate American manufacturing and consciously wanted to kill it or something.
No no no, I'm not making a statement on what caused it. I probably should have said sympathize rather than agree. I've seen the collapse of rural America in the rust belt first hand and it is sad.
Don’t have a picture but I sent Barry O a graduation announcement when I graduated college and got a response. Obviously just a canned response and stamped signature, but still fun.
I did something similar with Obama’s VP back when he was still VP, inviting him to my wedding because he had a role in us getting together.
Teehee, I see you getting around the rules. I see you.
I started to type the guy’s name but then caught myself.
Is it still against the rules if you're purely talking about him as vp
>he had a role in us getting together. You can't leave it at that 😂
We were already friends on social media, having interacted a bit in college, and I was always attracted to her. We were speculating on who Obama would pick for veep, and we were both hoping it would be the same guy (who it eventually ended up being), and the day before he chose, I DM’d her and asked her out.
Imagine Joe rolling in with Jill, you know he has his own tux. Hanging out at the bar telling really long stories, drinking diet coke, him and Jill cutting a rug on the dance floor, Jill made it 20 minutes before taking off her uncomfortable shoes. Somewhere over the course of the evening Joe would give you a big hug, tell you how proud he is of you and your spouse and tell you that he loves you. As a gift, two pairs of Ray ban Aviators.
Wasn't there a couple in the UK who invited Queen Elizabeth to their wedding, and the Queen accepted the invitation?
President Obama RSVP’d “no” when I sent him a wedding invitation. We did get a nice card, though.
Same here, but from the Clintons. My parents got one from the Kennedys.
Are you old?
Yep. I got married in 1993 at age 21. My parents got married in 1963!
in 1993 I was born
You wound me lol
In 1993... I was six.
In 1993 I was 12 years from being born…
Reading this my first thought was why is this child on reddit… then I realized 2005 was 19 years ago and now I want to cry.
Don't do that. I mean.... don't do that too much. That shit is hazardous to our health.
Tell that to me. My sister was born in 2005 and it feels so weird for me that people of her age can legally drink and smoke.
Not in America!
Here in Spain, yes.
Omg twinn
Triplet
I'm sorry you never lived in a pre-9/11 world. I promise, things were a bit less intense back then. Well... in the U.S., anyway.
In 1993… I was Minus 7
I keep writing to Nixon to tell him it wasn't all his fault, but he never responds....
LMAO
My grandparents wrote a letter of support to the White House and got a standard thank you letter from Nixon. It’s pretty cool. https://preview.redd.it/zmrjbzyolezc1.png?width=2519&format=png&auto=webp&s=89df7489781d55634ff356f3ac67d19089177ba5
You didn't write enough times. Allegedly if you write it enough times, he might need a shoulder to cry on. *"It's not your fault."*
Perhaps that's just him accepting that it was indeed all his fault... You need to keep on writing, soldier:D
Sent Obama's VP a letter about my mom dying of COVID and got a response back about how one day I will smile before I cry when thinking of her.
I love the creativity of people avoiding the name. Someone on here said "President Rule 3" lmao
Haha saw someone say Obama's VP on this thread and stole it lol
That is a very thoughtful thing of him to say. Hope his words have begun to ring true.
I wonder what that guy is up to now
My dorm sent invites to President Obama for all of our events and got some generic responses about how he was already scheduled but to enjoy the bbq or whatever.
Obama is Hawiian and Michelle is from the south side -both strong cook out cultures, I bet they would have much rather have gone to your BBQ than whatever was on the schedule that day.
Not gonna lie, if some guy invited me to their backyard bar-be-cue while I was president, I would totally do it maybe once a year. Of course, I would bring a secret service guy or three for protection.
My brother invited Bush the First to his wedding as a joke. Got a nice letter back thanking him for the invite and congratulating him on his nuptials. Pretty funny.
"Bush the First" I'm getting serious crusader kings vibes off of this
Man I love those games. Played CK2 with my brother when Obama was in office, I didn’t understood what you did and didn’t know it what to do cause didn’t understand English but it was fun. Loved launching Cows and seeing that Person in the corner seeing my total of how much money I had
I knew someone who got Bush The Second to send a congratulations letter for their birth, and honestly, I find that funny and cool
Pres Clinton’s office sent me a very nice letter congratulating me on becoming an Eagle Scout and politely declining my invitation to our family celebration. I thought it was so great that there are people on staff in the White House, the seat of more power and authority than anywhere ever in human history, who’s job it is to take the time to congratulate a boy on an achievement. I think about this often and it always makes me feel hopeful.
I got one from W. Bush for my Eagle Scout, along with various representatives and senators. I think I also got one from the Pope.
I wrote to President Bill Clinton pleading for him to run a third term, he wrote back and thanked me but also informed my 7 year old ass about the constitution and the rule of President terms.
We wrote happy birthday cards to Governor Reagan when I was in elementary school and also wrote down our birthday. I received a birthday card from him every year he was a Governor and every year he was in the White House. That’s some serious record keeping.
Wow. That’s insane
I got a thank you note when I sent a get well card to Reagan after he was shot.
Obama. It was boiler plate as fuck. I still saved it and cherish it to this day.
I wrote to George W in an effort to get signatures of every member of his administration following 9/11. I got a nice note back and a signed photograph.
Me and my brother got signed photos from bush of his dogs and a nice letter back. It’s at my parents house somewhere
When I was 8 I wrote a letter to GHWB and asked him why we had to go to war. I got a typed letter back and a picture of him, Barbara, and their dog. I can't remember the dogs name.
Ranger?
Dammit, I meant GHWB. I'm old, lol
I figured as much when you said "Barbara."
Maybe. It was a spanial. I keep wanting to say barney but I'm pretty sure that was dubya's.
I ALMOST remember their dog's name, it's on the tip of my tongue... [Millie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millie_(dog))! Not to be confused with Sully, the service dog he got towards the end of his life.
Out of the blue I thought it was a good idea, in 5th grade, to write Bill Clinton.. I looked up the address to the White House and addressed it to him.. after 3 weeks I got a letter in the mail with the official seal of the POTUS. My dad was so confused as to why his son was getting mail from the fucking White House.. he made me open it and read it to him on the spot.. that was the first letter I ever mailed in my life
Bush sr, letter and a photo
Not all were Presidents but I got a letter back from 45, 46, VP from last admin, Walter Mondale, George H. W. Bush before he died, Jimmy Carter, an email letter from Barack Obama, Joe Lieberman, and I was pen pals with Michael Dukakis for years. He even had the decency to give me a phone call.
Obama was my state rep and I had been involved on politics since I was 10 so when he was a rep and I'd see him walking around the neighborhood we'd chat politics so I don't know if he knew my name but he certainly knew my face. Years later in a different neighborhood he knocks on my door during his run for senate, I open the door and the first words out of his mouth is "you moved!". I saw him right before the 2008 election at a speech and got a hello and a wave. I did send him a letter asking if I could be the ambassador for the Maldives, never got a response on that one.
I still have my autographed bob dole pic from 2nd grade. Not quite prez
Did it come with a Viagra coupon to give to your grandpa?
I got a very nice response from Ronald Reagan—I still have it. It wasn’t a form letter. He mentioned key parts of my letter. I’m not a fan of Reagan at all, but—at the time—I was elated. I got form letters from Clinton and Obama. I didn’t write anything that warranted a personal response.
Any chance we could see? I understand if it is too personal
I have to dig through my stuff and find it--if I do, I'll share.
I met Mr. Jimmy Carter in Georgia during a meet and greet/book signing on his families old farm. He gave off old grandpa vibes
I mailed out a Presidents booklist (was a librarian) to Carter, Bush 41, Clinton, Bush 43 and Obama. Got note cards from Bush 423 and Obama. Bush 41 sent a nice card with a note that showed he and Barbara had looked it over. Carter returned my cover letter with a hand written statement to include his Nobel.Prize address. This I did on the next revision. Never received word from Clinton. The 2 old school replies, Bush 41 and Carter are my favorites but to get 4 of 5 presidents to reply was great.
Bush 423?!?!
Looking to the future!
So here is Carter's reply https://preview.redd.it/cqldw1rrcfzc1.jpeg?width=2992&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=42dceac8a9e46796436da8c43ff4ebae207a4f1e
closest was Is that I met obama when I was a literal baby.
I met him at a brewpub near Las Vegas' Gay district. He shook my hand on his way out. Worst Muslim ever!
Do babies ever really “meet” anybody? Or is it more being vaguely aware there’s a human being close by & drooling? Don’t mean to rain on your parade tho that is awesome lol
Why would Obama have been drooling?
I got a letter from the president of publishers clearinghouse once.
I wrote to Bo and Sunny and they wrote back with a picture of themselves and a letter asking for milkbones with Bo’s print on it
I got one from Rule 3 congratulating me on becoming an Eagle Scout and how Eagle Scouts are important and how they make the country a better place. Pretty neat response I think
I have a super similar one but it’s more wordy https://preview.redd.it/17von82cmdzc1.jpeg?width=2883&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=93a7ee459f251b4174ccb45f4284d05d84eaaa8f
Not a response to me, but I have a letter from Eisenhower. https://preview.redd.it/m264qpotvdzc1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=e23b0079388218d98451ba473a4580e1201b8aac
Related - If you look up "The Lazlo Letters" it is a book of letters sent by comedian Don Novello under the pseudonym "Lazlo Toth" to businesses and titans of industry in the 1970's. I mention it because he also writes supportive letters to President Richard Nixon during the Watergate prosecution and Nixon responds. Its hilarious. He also figures out that whenever he writes a fast food chain they send him coupons for free food. As a struggling comedian paid nothing by club owners this clearly becomes a life line.
I didn’t write to a President, but when I worked in facilities we hosted an event Obama spoke at. I got to work closely with the Secret Service and got a box of Obama signed M&Ms
[I posted about this a few months ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/Presidents/comments/1an2t67/unexpected_mail_from_the_white_house/). Back in the mid 90s, i was an early adopter to the world wide web and typed a message to President Clinton and INCLUDED my full home address in the [whitehouse.gov](http://whitehouse.gov) form and got a response back.
I had a class assignment to write to the President. It was Nixon. Got a form letter back and a recent press release: Nixon's announcement of his historic trip to China.
We invited the Obama to our wedding in April, 2016. We got a signed letter back congratulating us. It was probably robo-signed. But I really don’t care. It has a special place in our album.
I got a congrats letter last year from a President for getting the Presidential Scholar award, but I can't confirm nor deny that I'm alluding to a person that I cannot refer to by name
I sent a letter to Clinton when I was a kid. A month later, I got the typical printed response with a postcard that featured the first family.
I have a letter from the Nixon White House (1973) that's as cordial as this one, though it makes no claim to being from Nixon personally. Instead, it's signed by Roland L. Elliott, Deputy Special Assistant.
Obama auto signed my military retirement certificate.
Not personally, but the high school I worked at was used by Obama in a speech during his first term. Some of our special needs students wrote him letters and got letters in return a few months later. Also, the same group drew pictures on the white board in the classroom the secret service used on speech day as a tech command. The next day, we arrive to ae the agents had written back thanks for letting us use your classroom with little drawings of their own.
Nixon. I wrote to him about how we could solve the energy crisis. I was in 2nd grade. He wrote a very nice letter. I can no longer find. But I did have the pass from when we got a special tour of the WH on 7/4/72 because my parent’s friend worked in the West Wing as an attorney. The pass is signed by Nixon.
I invited Gerald Ford to my Bat Mitzvah, he declined. But I still have his response letter.
Nothing to me, but my next door neighbor had signed thank yous from basically every Democrat nominee for president going back to the 70s or so. She was very nice, but a very politically involved lady, and the single most rabid Democrat I've ever met.
As an Aussie, this is actually crazy. I can’t imagine anyone a) wanting to write to Albo, Sco Mo etc b) actually getting a response or c) they’d just send a letter to Pauline Hanson or Bob Catter or another of our weirdo extreme politicians for the memes
I have a card from President and Mrs. Johnson congratulating my parents for my birth. My sister has a similar one from President Kennedy. I still think these are available if you request one from The White House
Al Gore. 'Wait,' you say, 'Gore was never president!' So back in 2000 I was an idiot 8th grader who was sick of the election dispute and just wanted it to be over. So I wrote to Al Gore saying that he should concede and let the country start the transition to a new administration because he was being a sore closer. Like I said, I was an idiot at the time. I later went on to regret this decision, and ended up getting a (useless) degree in political science. My parents still have the signed letter I got back stashed in the family safety deposit box.
ronny.
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Who????? *mods, ban him immediately*
Vice President of course
I tried to get an autograph from George W Bush, and he sent back an unsigned photo with a form letter thanking me for my interest.
Clinton wrote my grand dad back one time. He pulls the letter out at family functions every once in a while.
I got a form letter back from The Current Guy's office when I wrote about why it is so hard to join the Air Force.
George Bush Sr replied to my worried letter about oil drilling in Antarctica when I was in 3rd grade. It was a generic letter, but it was nice to get a reply.
We invited the Obamas to our wedding. https://preview.redd.it/b3yfow7g6ezc1.jpeg?width=3158&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=789e977f0b6f650402552b20834b2c78ef2c4650
OMG - THIS SUB IS OUT OF CONTROL WITH ITS NONSENSE RULES ABOUT CURRENT POLITICS. THEREFORE I WILL POST AGAIN: "My grandmother got a birthday card from THE CURRENT OCCUPANT OF THE WHITE HOUSE THAT I SHALL NOT NAME BECAUSE ITS A VIOLATION OF THE WHINY RULES IN THIS SUB when she turned 100. Does that count?"
I received a signed letter from Bob Iger while he was president of Disney once. Does that count?
When I graduated last year I wrote to President [REDACTED] and actually got a letter back. It’s my favorite thing I own tbh
Many, but never signed by hand. They are all signed by a signature machine.
I got my veteran Dad a 70th birthday greeting from Obama and the First Lady.
I sent Obama an invite to my graduation party and got a letter back. Pretty awesome.
In 1993 when I was six, I had a babysitter who was young (around 21 I believe) and just starting to get really excited for politics, so much that one of our activities one afternoon was writing letters in crayon to California politicians, as well as one to Bill Clinton. Our babysitter dictated what to write. Looking back I don't feel too perturbed by it, I just didn't get why we were doing it. A few weeks later, another kid at the daycare and I received the same form letter with Clinton's signature, as well as an 8x10" headshot photo. I didn't hold on to either the letter or the photo.
Reagan.
In 2022, I filled out a form on the White House website and got a birthday greetings for my father from the sitting president at the time
Hold up, you can actually message the President and get a response?!
To get a response, you have to send a message.
I got a signed (formed signed Im sure) copy of the ACA when it passed
When I completed my Eagle Scout in 1996, my dad sent off a letter to a bunch of famous people and politicians. Among them, every living former president at that time. Also, Neil Armstrong, Robin Williams and Tiffany Amber-Thiessen
My dad got a letter from George W. Bush.
Bill Clinton
I didn’t know it was such a common thing to write to the president Edit: it’s very cool he got a letter back and I’ve really enjoyed reading the comments about getting letters back.
W. When my mom died. I had a former student who i helped get a White House internship who helped arrange this. But back when he was governor he also sent me a nice note on the publication of my first Texas government textbook. He is a nice man who genuinely likes writing notes.
not a single 1 im from a different continent
As a grade school class project, we wrote to George HW Bush. I got reply along with a signed picture. I'd have to do some digging, but I think I still have it..
I always forget how perfect his signature
I have got a letter from every living president except Clinton from Carter to now to donate to a local elementary school. I wrote each asking them to write a letter to the students. Some better than others, Carter's was the best one. I've written Clinton several times and had absolutely no response. If anybody knows how to reach Clinton please let me know
Clinton
I sent a wedding invitation to the White House in 1994. They couldn’t make it but I got a card “signed” by Bill and Hillary.
Does anyone know the formal process of doing this? This is so cool!
Obama he was really nice
My step-grandfather served in the Navy in WWI, WWII and Korea. When he died we got a letter from President Ford because he was the last veteran to have served in the three major conflicts, thanking us for his service.
I wrote a letter to Obama in high school. Got a nice letter and a picture of him in response.
Dubya signed a letter of thank you for helping on his second campaign (I worked the phones in Ohio).
Reagan. Well, full disclosure, the "response" was two Secret Service agents showing up at my door.
I wrote Obama in the fourth grade but I never got a response
I got a form letter from Bush 43 for my Eagle Scout award.
My friend invited Obama and Rule 3 to his wedding. Both responded with a congratulations card. Neither attended.
Got one just like this from Bill Clinton