When you were a kid, did you ever write to the President or other important government official and get a nice response? Amtrak owes this kid a free ticket or pass for his boosterism.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/bidens-tweet-ny-kids-drawing-100009137.html
Thanks for posting
I wrote lettersw to Mayor O'Dwyer to stop streetcar abandonment.
Not very successful(?)!
But in Jerusalem, I can ride the kight rail any time I wish.
Not writing, but...
I was coming through Trenton Station for some reason in 1976 when Jimmy Carter was boarding a train, perhaps a campaign train, in the midst of security and police. For some reason I had an Amtrak question I wanted to ask, and in those younger bright college days I went ahead -- not to get an answer, but to request that he think about it. He stopped dead in the middle of the passage and started talking to me, someone he did not know, with great interest about it... probably about 5 minutes; you could see that some folks in the entourage wanted to shush him along, but he was pointedly ignoring them. Made a believer out of me in an instant.
Later I learned a great deal about where he got it. His mother had come into Newark to do publicity, and I drove down as half of a WPRB team to see if we could manage an interview. When we got there it was a bit late, and one of the networks had her pretending to talk on the phone to him and stuff. In between 'takes' I introduced us and said we'd like to get some background... and she looked at me with a particular expression I've learned to understand from strong Southern women since: she said 'sure, boys, come right in', shut the suite door on the network crews making their 6 oclock news deadlines, and proceeded to open up and talk to us in candor about what the campaign was like for an extended time. We didn't get any friendly looks from the media representatives when we left, but I still remember the smile on her face watching them...
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