Dan Hesse

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1,215 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 11 Apr

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The Mentors Radio Show · 472. What Sports Reveals about Presidents and Leaders, with Guest Mentor Chris Cillizza · 11 Apr 2026 podcast

Moving on to President Obama, he was a huge sports fan.

You mentioned Nixon, but Obama would be right up there in terms of following sports, watching ESPN.

But of all the sports that really captivated Obama, it was basketball.

Why basketball?

So you mentioned he played with NBA players, but he primarily would just have pickup games with his staffers.

Bush would generally choose world leaders to play sports with.

JFK might've been the most unusual in terms of who he would choose to go swimming with in the White House pool.

And you would say in the book, sans swimsuits.

So we'll be back in a few minutes with the bestselling author of Power Players, Chris Saliza.

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This is Dan Hesse, and this is The Mentors Radio.

Welcome back.

This is Dan Hessian.

We're learning about sports and the American presidency from Chris Silliza.

So Joe Biden played golf like pretty much every other president.

What does the way people or presidents played golf tell us about them?

I mean, some follow the rules really closely.

I would say Biden would not have been one of those or LBJ or Clinton or even President Trump, but some did.

What does golf tell us about the person?

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