JOHN BOEHNER: A REMARKABLE SUCCESS STORY

John Boehner resigned as Speaker of the House of Representatives on September 25, 2015...the day after having an up close and personal meeting with the leader of his church, Pope Francis. Boehner was notorious for crying openly on numerous occasions...most recently just by standing next to Pope Francis whenever he had the opportunity.

Boehner is a guy I just couldn’t help but like....In my mind I always gave him the benefit of the doubt.

“John Boehner was born in Reading, Ohio, the son of Mary Anne (née Hall) and Earl Henry Boehner, the second of twelve children. His father was of German descent and his mother had German and Irish ancestry. He grew up in modest circumstances, having shared one bathroom with his eleven siblings in a two-bedroom house in Cincinnati. His parents slept on a pull-out couch.He started working at his family’s bar at age 8, a business founded by their grandfather Andy Boehner in 1938. He has lived in Southwest Ohio his entire life. All but two of his siblings still live within a few miles of one another; two are unemployed and most of the others have blue-collar jobs.

Boehner attended Cincinnati’s Moeller High School and was a linebacker on the school’s football team, where he was coached by future Notre Dame coach Gerry Faust.] Graduating from Moeller in 1968, when U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War was at its peak, Boehner enlisted in the United States Navy but was honorably discharged after eight weeks because of a bad back. He earned his B.A. in business administration from Xavier University in 1977, becoming the first person in his family to attend college, taking seven years as he held several jobs to pay for his education.”

By the spring of 2010 John Boehner was the second most powerful man in the United States....

Food for Thought....