Next Monday night is going to be a late one for President Obama, but not because of presidential matters in Washington, D.C. Instead, Obama will be the sole guest on David Letterman’s “Late Show” — his latest effort to push his health care plan.
Obama will make late night show history for the second time this year, becoming the only sitting president to sit on Letterman’s couch in the history of his 16 years as host of the show. And it’s not a first time the men have met — Monday night will mark the sixth time.
It took Obama only two months to be the first sitting president to chat it up on late night television, granting Jay Leno the honor of being the first-ever late night host to get a visit from a sitting president with Obama’s appearance on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” on March 19, 2009.
Leno’s ratings that night were the highest he’d had since 2005, when “The Tonight Show” paid tribute to Johnny Carson. We are betting the same for Letterman, who has been dominating the late-night show ratings, due in part to Leno’s retirement from that time slot.
