{"id":19155,"date":"2017-01-12T23:29:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T23:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19155"},"modified":"2017-01-12T23:29:22","modified_gmt":"2017-01-12T23:29:22","slug":"yes-americans-will-miss-this-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19155","title":{"rendered":"Yes, Americans will miss this team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"President Obama Awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Vice President Biden\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qrz6Ge64hsc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Presidents and vice presidents haven&#8217;t always had the kind of relationship that Barack Obama and Joseph Biden have developed.<\/p>\n<p>Lyndon Johnson famously summoned Hubert Humphrey to the White House for a conference &#8230; while LBJ was sitting on a commode; Dwight Eisenhower once responded\u00a0to a question about what Richard Nixon contributed to his administration by saying: &#8220;If you give me a week, I&#8217;ll think of something&#8221;; John Nance Garner once referred to the vice presidency as being worth &#8220;a bucket of warm piss.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To watch the current president bestow the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the current vice president is to witness a true friendship that doubled as a national governing partnership.<\/p>\n<p>The president added a final &#8220;with distinction&#8221; honor to the presentation, noting that such an honor is bestowed only rarely. He noted that his three immediate predecessors honored Pope John Paul II, President Reagan and Gen. Colin Powell &#8220;with distinction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With that, Vice President Biden joins some heady company.<\/p>\n<p>And he deserves to stand with them.<\/p>\n<p>Their partnership and friendship no doubt will make me miss them once they leave the public stage.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidents and vice presidents haven&#8217;t always had the kind of relationship that Barack Obama and Joseph Biden have developed. Lyndon Johnson famously summoned Hubert Humphrey to the White House for a conference &#8230; while LBJ was sitting on a commode; Dwight Eisenhower once responded\u00a0to a question about what Richard Nixon contributed to his administration by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19155\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yes, Americans will miss this team<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[540,2505,3721,5103],"class_list":["post-19155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-joe-biden","tag-presidential-medal-of-freedom","tag-vice-presidency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19156,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19155\/revisions\/19156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}