Dan Hesse
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1,215 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 11 Apr
Dan Hesse’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, there was, you know, Gerald Ford, who you described wasn't known as a good athlete.
The same with with totally W. Bush, who was he captained two Yale baseball teams that made it to the championship game.
in college he was the youngest Navy Naval 80 aviator during the Second World War I mean this guy was a stud yet he had kind of the wimp factor totally it's the wind factor it's when news magazines mattered yeah so so how did he get that what what happened
He was such a classy guy.
Yeah.
Because of his humility, you just, I love that about him.
Bill Clinton was was next in line.
And you talked about how he would stop at McDonald's on a jog, which seems very counterproductive.
We'll be back in a few minutes with Chris Silliza, learning what the sports presidents love.
Tell us about them and their leadership traits.
Welcome back.
This is Dan Hesse, and we're learning about who presidents played sports with.
Tells us about them.
I was surprised that G.W.
Bush was the only president who played Little League baseball.
I thought that was a requirement for every young man.
It certainly was for me and for my boys.
Getting to the sport of baseball, what's become kind of institutionalized is presidents throwing out first pitches, and there's probably no one more memorable to me.
that I can think of than when GW threw out the first pitch in Yankee Stadium after 9-11.
Tell us about the history of presidential first pitches and any other memorable ones.
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