Michelle and Barack invited us to the White House this spring. Ok, they invited all citizens of the world to a public viewing of the grounds, groves, and extensive plantings of the United States' oldest maintained landscape, but we were able to skip the hourlong lines complements of Ben's brother's security clearance. While the marine band played all American selections like "Star Wars" and "the Sound of Music" (seriously no Gershwin?), Ben, my sister Kata, and Ben's brother and wife meandered around the Rose Garden, the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, and a whole bunch of Dowgwood, Elm, Oak, Magnolia, Chestnut, Linden, and Ash trees planted by Messrs. Jackson,Cleveland, Hoover, Harding, Rossevet, Eisenhower, Ford, and Bush I & II.
We were handed a map of the grounds which included the prescient line: Like the White House itself, the garden and all the green evidcences of its rich past remind us that our sytem of government prevails, yet is able to change as life and habitation may degree.
P.S. To our eternal disappointment, Bo, the world's most popular Portuguese Water Dog, stayed inside.
2 comments:
I would like to extend a similar invitation to the public: "Please come look at our house and lawn. But don't touch the grass"
Ben, I remember when you befriended Bill Clinton's chocolate lab on the White House grounds...7/4/2000...
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