Obama’s Latte Salute Debunked: Thirty-Eight Previous Presidents Never Saluted The Troops
Conservatives have blown a gasket over the latte salute. To them, the video proves that Obama is just a Kenyan Socialist Marxist, who hates America and the troops.
The reality is that there is no law or requirement that a president has to salute the troops. In fact for 192 years, the troops were required to salute the Commander in Chief, but the president never saluted back. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Abe Lincoln, JFK, and FDR didn’t salute the troops when they saw them. Presidents weren’t supposed to salute. In a bit of stagecraft, Ronald Reagan began saluting the troops in 1981. http://www.politicususa.com/2014/09/24/obamas-latte-salute-debunked-thirty-eight-previous-presidents-saluted-troops.html