This is cool. The history of Presidents calling astronauts:https://www.nasa.gov/feature/presidential-calls-to-space-a-timeless-tradition
I was reading that earlier. Poor Jimmy Carter, he literally had no one to call!
Why is there such a fuss about this "record"? It pales into insignificance when compared with the Russian duration record of 804 days by Gennady Padalka.