Feb 15th
Nixon Pulls Out All The Stops to THRILL a Mockingbird?!?
President Nixon recently entertained the famed, reclusive author, Harper Lee, having her over to dinner at the White House, while holding a banquet on the White House Lawn for special representatives of our nation's teaching staff, with a particular focus on teachers who work on the front lines in DC schools, who felt pretty sure they knew what was going on, but it was a Friday, and they'd been given a half day and I mean come on, an open bar's an open bar.
Among the guests at the banquet was one of the Presidential favorites - Sammy Davis Jr! Sammy shocked the whole room with a little comedic stunt of his own -
we'll let the picture do the talking!!!
That's right, Sammy snuck up behind the President - grabbing him from behind! Seen behind the pair is Harper Lee, who looks pensive - perhaps she's worried Sammy might exercise his comedic wit to snatch away her next Pulitzer Prize!
After the dinner, Harper was invited to speak to the assembled teachers on the White House lawn, but declined, choosing the earliest possible moment to get away from the building. Her absence disappointed few of the assembled teachers, who were engaged in a lively discussion about just how often they have to change the damn maps in their classrooms...
BUT YOU WONT BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT!
President Nixon addressed the crowd himself, and announced that over the next three months, he was going to ensure that an additional 50 credits was pumped into our nation's schools. He went on to explain how roughly 30% of the money would go to improving travel situations for rural areas, where populations less dense, with freedoms to be encouraged for school opening hours in such areas, regulated at state level, to allow greater flexibility in the changing requirements of the calendar year. The teachers (again with a palpable sense of what they were doing there, but also, for some of them, a little bit of libatious excitement) began to swell as the President went on to explain how the other 70% would go to urban teachers. In this case, it would be going towards improving post- and pre- school care facilities, as well as providing a good quality of nutritious food available for as many students as possible, recognizing that in an urban educational environment parents are more likely to be structured around a 9-5, and that making school as bearable as possible will be good for students in the long haul. He then added that he would like to see more coffee machines in the teachers room, and one crowd member dabbed a bit at the corner of his eye. Shortly after the speech, the open bar was closed.
The teachers were asked to hand in a three-page report (no cursive, that means
you, Shelby) on the President's decision to be handed up by the following Tuesdays, no exceptions, (
I don't care if your grandma's cat threw up on it!).