Don Ho was a father figure to former isle newscaster

By Bob Sigall

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Mar 22, 2013

~~<p>When Barack Obama was a student at Punahou, Don Ho was performing in Waikiki. One of Ho's long-running jokes was that there should be a Hawaiian president. It was time. He volunteered himself for the job. "President Ho," he suggested. "I'd move the White House to Hawaii and call it the Ho House."</p>
<p>One of his close friends was former KGMB newscaster Linda Coble. She told me that when she moved to Hawaii in 1969, she often went to the Don Ho show at Duke's. "This was when Kalakaua ran two ways," she mused.</p>
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When Barack Obama was a student at Punahou, Don Ho was performing in Waikiki. One of Ho's long-running jokes was that there should be a Hawaiian president. It was time. He volunteered himself for the job. "President Ho," he suggested. "I'd move the White House to Hawaii and call it the Ho House."

One of his close friends was former KGMB newscaster Linda Coble. She told me that when she moved to Hawaii in 1969, she often went to the Don Ho show at Duke's. "This was when Kalakaua ran two ways," she mused. Login for more...