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The President and the Tow Truck Driver
Clarence Baugh, who clears a path for all presidential motorcades through New York, has served every president since George H.W. Bush. But until this week, he’d never met one.
The New York cops call him the tow truck driver to the presidents.
“In a world in turmoil where the president of the United States is in search of a course of action, one man clears the path ahead, and if there’s anything in the way, he moves it,” an NYPD sergeant said this week. “His name is Clarence Baugh.”
Baugh is the longtime driver of the tow truck in the “sweep team” that precedes all presidential motorcades through New York, ever ready to remove any and all obstructing vehicles.
He is also so manifestly and forthrightly pleasant as to seem like good nature personified, unsoured by his previous assignments hauling away the vehicles of resentful scofflaws in Brooklyn and Queens.
more (great photo)
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/09/25/the-president-and-the-tow-truck-driver.html
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Oh, and I like my President for many reasons. This could be one of them!
"And 49-year-old Baugh’s unfailingly sunny disposition in this troubled cosmos no doubt encouraged the cops to set things right when they discovered a startling fact.
“He has served every president since the first Bush, and he never met one,” another police commander said.
Thanks to the cops, that was about to change when President Obama helicoptered into Lower Manhattan from JFK Airport on Monday morning to begin a four-day visit to New York."
thanks n2doc.. that's nice of you to post this in the BOG~