{"id":21647,"date":"2022-07-19T15:30:40","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T19:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=21647"},"modified":"2022-07-22T21:35:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T01:35:13","slug":"three-presidents-in-a-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/three-presidents-in-a-boat\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Presidents  in a Boat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23e3e3e3&amp;d=finalpdfs07_18_22&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=42&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It was a <b>different world<\/b> 15 years ago. <b>Or was it<\/b>?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>BY COLIN W. SARGENT<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">T<\/span><span class=\"s1\">his sparkly summer, we\u2019d just shot a picture of the late former <b>President George H. W. Bush<\/b>\u2019s boat <em>Fidelity IV <\/em>zooming from the <b>Kennebunk River<\/b> toward <b>Walker\u2019s Point<\/b> when it struck us. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Wasn\u2019t there something called the \u201c<b>lobster summit\u201d<\/b> up here 15 years ago? \u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\">The July 2, 2007, visit of Russian President <b>Vladimir Putin<\/b> with former President <b>George H. W. Bush<\/b> and President <b>George W. Bush<\/b> was covered by the world press. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>Aboard Fidelity III<\/em>, the three world leaders headed into the blue for a bit of morning catch and release, but Putin was the only one to reel anything in.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\">Newscenter Maine reported that President [George W.] Bush said one problem he has with some world leaders is knowing if they\u2019re telling the truth: \u201cI\u2019ve never had to worry about that with Vladimir Putin. Sometimes he says things I don\u2019t want to hear, but I know he\u2019s always tellin\u2019 me, uhhh, the truth.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s1\">We wonder if he wishes he could take that one back.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-21689\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/presidents-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"presidents\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/presidents-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/presidents-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/presidents-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/presidents-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/presidents-620x324.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/presidents.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a different world 15 years ago. Or was it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1204],"class_list":["post-21647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-julyaugust-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21691,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21647\/revisions\/21691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}