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☘️ LIVE 5PM: President Biden hosts White House Shamrock presentation celebrating Saint Patrick's Day (Original Post) Donkees Mar 2022 OP
☘️ Donkees Mar 2022 #1
Republicans will complain. displacedtexan Mar 2022 #2
'In 1952, the Irish Ambassador decided to send a small box of shamrocks to President Truman...' Donkees Mar 2022 #3
This is such a sweet tradition. displacedtexan Mar 2022 #4

displacedtexan

(15,696 posts)
2. Republicans will complain.
Thu Mar 17, 2022, 07:03 PM
Mar 2022

I expect to hear:

Why do the Bidens host all of these frivolous events?
Nothing about this is normal.
Don't these people actually do anything useful?

Donkees

(31,347 posts)
3. 'In 1952, the Irish Ambassador decided to send a small box of shamrocks to President Truman...'
Thu Mar 17, 2022, 07:24 PM
Mar 2022

Excerpt:

In 1952, the Irish Ambassador decided to send a small box of shamrocks to President Truman and although he was away from the White House that day, he responded positively.

Seven years later, the first President of Ireland to come to the United States was welcomed by President Eisenhower and spontaneously pinned some shamrocks on Ike’s suit collar as a sign of unity between the two nations. The U.S. Embassy in Ireland has produced a video encapsulating the history of the evolving tradition.





https://carlanthonyonline.com/2014/03/17/presidents-the-irish-the-clinton-st-patricks-day-parties/

displacedtexan

(15,696 posts)
4. This is such a sweet tradition.
Fri Mar 18, 2022, 09:52 AM
Mar 2022

I just don't trust Republicans not to mock it. Anything to bash the president.

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