not sure if posted since i am recovering from the plague
The president may have been embroiled in a snake pit of international turmoil at the time, but he was still a sports fan. And like any other sports fan, he needed to vent after a devastating defeat. So he called up his aide (and obviously savvy hockey fan) David Hackett after reading about Team USA’s humiliating 17-2 loss to Sweden at the World Hockey Championships.
“Christ, who are we sending over there?” Kennedy asked. “Girls? God, we’ve got some pretty good hockey players, haven’t we?”