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Stinky The Clown

(67,799 posts)
Tue Apr 10, 2018, 09:38 PM Apr 2018

Apros pos of our governments state: I have had occasion to visit a number of agency headquarters.

In each one, in the lobby/entry/ceremonial reception area/public space, in the place where, over the years, I've seen the formal portraits of Reagan, Bush the Greater, Clinton, Bush the Lesser, and Obama. Next to those portraits, depending on the agency, was an official portrait of the agency's head, usually a cabinet secretary.

Over the last few months, I have continued to have occasion to visit some of these agencies.

On the mug shot wall of some of these agencies there are (figuratively) just the dusty outlines of where portraits once hung. No agency head. No president.

Where there IS a president hanging, its this one, which I have always found to be the smarmiest image of him ever taken. (It is just the inset image, not the background image)

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Apros pos of our governments state: I have had occasion to visit a number of agency headquarters. (Original Post) Stinky The Clown Apr 2018 OP
Pretty sure they are going to have his portrait in the Post Office soon jberryhill Apr 2018 #1
I think Trump is the only President to actually have used an alias, or three. TheSmarterDog Apr 2018 #2
Good point! Cha Apr 2018 #4
At the agency I worked marybourg Apr 2018 #3

marybourg

(12,631 posts)
3. At the agency I worked
Wed Apr 11, 2018, 12:34 AM
Apr 2018

for in the 80's we "lost" Ronald Ray-gun's official picture, and had to replace it with an old JFK portrait. We got away with it for two years before management noticed.

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