{"id":2195,"date":"2017-09-10T11:31:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-10T18:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theaposition.com\/traveltattler\/?p=2195"},"modified":"2017-09-10T11:31:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-10T18:31:58","slug":"learn-more-about-president-bush-off-the-course-in-latest-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/traveltattler\/golf\/personalities\/2195\/learn-more-about-president-bush-off-the-course-in-latest-book","title":{"rendered":"Learn More About President Bush Off the Course in Latest Book"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“I Call Him Mr. President” released this week by Skyhorse Publishing<\/p><\/div>\n

You cannot schedule a weekend getaway to Camp David – the Presidential Retreat in the mountains of\u00a0Maryland –\u00a0or book airfare there aboard the Marine One helicopter. The Lincoln Bedroom at the White House does not show up as available on AirBnB; and no amount of frequent flier miles will get you even a middle seat aboard Air Force One. An Uber a ride in the Presidential limousine? No chance.\u00a0But you can live those experiences vicariously in the new book \u201cI Call Him Mr. President \u2013 Stories of Golf Fishing and Life with my Friend George HW Bush,\u201d by Ken Raynor and Michael Patrick Shiels. I collaborated with the 41st<\/sup>\u00a0president\u2019s longtime fishing pal and golf professional Raynor over the past few years to research and write the book. It\u2019s believed that Raynor, head pro at Cape Arundel Golf Club, near the Bushes\u2019 seaside summer home in Kennebunkport, has played more golf with Presidents of the United States – given Bush\u2019s son also became Commander in Chief- than any PGA professional in history.<\/p>\n

For vacationers to\u00a0Kennebunkport, Cape Arundel Golf Club is open to the public, and the Bushes\u2019 home on\u00a0Walker\u2019s Point is an attraction visible from a viewing area along\u00a0Ocean Avenue. Raynor takes us\u00a0right inside the\u00a0Bush’s living room, aboard his speedboat, into the White House swimming pool and\u00a0everywhere the\u00a0President Bush welcomed him \u2013 in \u201cI Call Him Mr. President.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fishing trips, including the two of them alone in a tiny Bass Tracker boat on the Kennebunk River at dawn or fly fishing expeditions\u00a0to the Arctic Sea by float plane and through the wilds of Newfoundland via helicopter, are detailed. President Bush and Raynor were guests at the very private Augusta National Golf Club, and Raynor coached the very nervous 41st<\/sup>\u00a0President to hit a ceremonial opening drive in front of a crowd with Tiger Woods near\u00a0Washington\u00a0D.C.<\/p>\n

Bush entertained plenty of celebrity friends along the way, so stories from Prince Andrew, Jack Nicklaus, Larry Gatlin, VP Dan Quayle and many other notables who contributed anecdotes to the book, are included.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Bush, at the end of our round of golf in\u00a0Maine, insisted on giving me the dollar I\u2019d won from him in a gentleman\u2019s bet on the course. I wanted him to autograph it but was concerned that somehow defacing federal currency was a crime, so I didn\u2019t ask him to do it,\u201d says NBC\u2019s star sports commentator Jimmy Roberts. \u201cSomeone hearing this story later reminded me, \u2018President Bush was accompanied all that day by two Secret Service agents who work for the Treasury Department\u2026\u2019\u00a0\u00a0All I needed to do was ask one of them if it was legal and I probably could have had the dollar signed that day!\u201d<\/p>\n

Word got back to President Bush, so he had Roberts mail the dollar to him, which he signed and sent back with a fun personal note.<\/p>\n

From \u201cshirts and skins\u201d wallyball games against the Secret Service agents at Camp David\u00a0to trick or treating with First Lady Barbara Bush (who wore a Barbara Bush mask), \u201cI Call Him Mr. President\u201d is meant to be a fun and touching portrait of what it\u2019s like to be pals with \u201cthe Prez.\u201d<\/p>\n

Join Michael Patrick Shiels for a brief, complimentary presentation of colorful insider tales and book signing at Schuler\u2019s Books at Meridian Mall in Okemos onWednesday, September 13 at 7 p.m.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0He may be contacted at\u00a0MShiels@aol.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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