Good morning, it's Thursday, May 31, 2018. Eighty-eight years ago today in San Francisco, a little boy came into the world who was so big and strong the maternity room nurses at St. Francis Hospital nicknamed him “Sampson.”
His mother named him Clinton, after the boy's father. Unless you live in Carmel, California, you know him as Hollywood leading man Clint Eastwood. In that lovely seaside town, however, he is still sometimes affectionately greeted as “Mr. Mayor.”
Eastwood is a Republican, which is rare enough in Hollywood circles, although he didn't exactly show his team to good effect at the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, when he pretended to address President Obama while talking to an empty chair on stage. He knows it, too, and later expressed regret for “that silly thing.”
But this was neither Clint Eastwood's first rodeo, nor his last.
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