Excluding Trump and Obama, I've met every president since Jimmy Carter, and most of the their staff, and speaker of the houses. Newt Gingrich was a regular feature at our house.

I also met Douglas Coe, the founder and head of The Family, the ultra conservative group.

Also my stepdad - but I won't say his name as other than saying, when he dies it will most likely trend on reddit.

It was because of my step-dad I met all these people, He would have them over for parties and 'prayer meetings'.

I no idea who most of them where. I didnt even know who Douglas Coe was until I saw him in the 2019 documentary 'the family', and promptly shit myself. Didn't even know my stepdad was as important as he was until I was much much older.

My stepdad was a bastard of a human being who was extremely abusive and is ultra conservative. During most of the parties, since I'm the mixed race (mom is korean, my real dad is half white/black) step son he never wanted, I was confined to my room in the basement most of the time since he didn't want them to know I existed. But I would usually wander upstairs and get food, maybe mutter a few words at a president or some lackey and then go back down stairs. Only one I ever met outside of a handshake of asking to pass a plate, was Newt Gingrich, and i can confirm he was a fairly vile person and fairly loathed by everyone, but tolerated because he was extremely effective at what he did.