I think his normal routine was to identify himself as an American. Michael Lubetsky More Quotes by Michael Lubetsky More Quotes From Michael Lubetsky There is no doubt that Ted identified himself as an American, he was always an American and a Texan and that was certainly the case back then. We would cross the border to come to Canada and he would identify as an American. Michael Lubetsky politics I do recall specifically Ted once commenting that when he was a kid and he first learned about the natural-born citizen clause in the Constitution, like I suspect every other American child born abroad, he inquired whether or not he was eligible to be President. And he was quite pleased to discover that yes, indeed, that as a citizen born aboard he was eligible to run for the president. Michael Lubetsky politics