Who's the most awesome person you have actually met?

I grew up in an area which gets a fair amount of attention during presidential elections (a small, rural, depressed, former manufacturing town in Ohio...it's great for photo-ops and rallies) so I've met every sitting president who's held office during my lifetime (so this would be going back to George H.W. Bust) and a number of others running for president.

By far the most awesome in the sense of talking to someone who instantly made you feel amazing and you knew there was something special about them was George W. Bush. I met him twice, once when running for his first term and another during his run for re-election and even though I was old enough to form my own opinions about him during his run for a second term and didn't like his policies at all, even meeting him the second time was incredible. With just a five second handshake, you felt like this guy was your grandpa.

While Donald Trump did have a rally in my hometown, I've since moved away so I haven't met him yet. I figure just to keep the streak alive I need to somehow track him down and get a handshake.

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