Twenty-six-year-old Lance Futch said he would have given more thought to his casual outfit had he known that the "senior White House official" who would be speaking at a supposed "news conference" he was attending would end up being the president himself.
Futch volunteered to attend what ended up being a small roundtable with the president and several Utah lawmakers on behalf of his employer, Vivant Solar, because the White House requested the attendance of a representative from the company with military experience. But he had no idea that he would end up sitting a seat away from the commander in chief in such an intimate environment.
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"If I had known it was my commander in chief, I definitely would have been wearing my [Air National Guard uniform]," Futch said. —Teresa Mull
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