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A black-and-white photograph that shows a young man proudly shaking the hand of another, somewhat older man depicts two presidents. One of the men is John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States. The other is Bill Clinton, who would go on to become the 42nd U.S. president. According to NBC News, the picture was taken in the White House Rose Garden in July 1963, while Clinton was attending the American Legion Boys Nation program. Clinton described the encounter as inspiring his path into public service. He was sworn in 30 years later, in 1993. According to entertainment news site Parade, the Clinton quote included in the tweet above came from a 2013 documentary and accompanying book, Where Were You? America Remembers the JFK Assassination, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's assassination. Parade quoted a longer excerpt, giving more detail about where Clinton was when he got the news:
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