Send a President's Day Card to Your President

Here’s the Thing:

Tell your president what you’re thinking.

My brother’s favorite president is Grover Cleveland, because he ran for president as a bachelor but was secretly courting a 21-year-old college girl, whom he married shortly after taking office. He was 49 at the time.

Grover Cleveland… A smooth operator.

William Henry Harrison was U.S. president for 30 days. He caught a cold while delivering a 2-hour-plus inaugural address without an overcoat on an extremely cold and windy day, and eventually died of pneumonia and pleurisy. His final words, according to Wikipedia, were “Sir, I wish you to understand the true principles of the government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.”

Many of today’s current presidents don’t seem to understand the true principles of government. Or perhaps they understand, they’re just not carrying them out. If you want your president — or any elected leaders for that matter — to act responsibly and uphold principles of justice, tell them so! It’s Presidents’ Day in the United States. Why not send your president a card to mark this momentous event?

I interned in the U.S. senate many years ago, and we read and responded to every piece of constituent mail, no matter how cooky. And we took every bit of mail seriously on the theory that if one person cared enough about something to write in about it, there were probably 99 more out there who didn’t take the time to write in.

So if there’s something going on in your country that you don’t agree with, maybe it’s time to tell your president. Grab a postcard, write your thoughts, and send it in.

If you’re in the U.S., here’s some key contact info for your president (well, the president, anyway.), taken from the Whitehouse.gov Web site:

Mailing Address The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500
Phone Numbers Comments: 202-456-1111 Switchboard: 202-456-1414 FAX: 202-456-2461	TTY/TDD Comments: 202-456-6213 Visitors Office: 202-456-2121

E-Mail
comments@whitehouse.gov
Vice President Richard Cheney: vice_president@whitehouse.gov

If you write to Cheney, please join my campaign to urge him not to shoot any more people in the face.