“You gotta catch folks by surprise. Can’t be regular. Can’t be routine.”
That was the message from President Obama as he surprised a handful of tourists and locals in Washington, D.C. when he took an unannounced walk Wednesday outside the White House.
“It’s good to be out,” he said on his stroll. “The bear is loose.”
Obama chatted with about two dozen people in a three-minute video posted to the White House YouTube channel early Thursday
“How’s business?” he asked a vendor at the helm of one of the many food trucks that sell hot dogs, pretzels, and ice cream to Washington tourists.
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“It’ll be a wonderful, wonderful ceremony,” he said to another two people he met, presumably in town for a funeral or other memorial event at nearby Arlington National Cemetery. “My grandfather was buried in the National Cemetery of the Pacific and I still remember the ceremony, flag, Taps. Still chokes me up every time.”









