Yep, I have driven by his house a few times. Nice but nothing ostentatious.
My niece who worked for A Government Agency came to Houston once to brief him on some issue. He asked her to stay afterwards to show her around his office. She was there an hour or two and had a wonderful time as he showed her photos and reminisced. At some point Bar called to ask him to pick something up on the way home. He was very deferential to SWMBO! --FT Sent from iPhone > On Dec 2, 2018, at 4:50 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > They lived in the same neighborhood as your attorney buddy. He pointed out > their house to me. Wouldn’t have known who lived there unless someone told > you. He said he ran into them around the neighborhood regularly, nice people. > > -D > > >> On Dec 2, 2018, at 4:11 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> A buddy and I were meeting for lunch one day at a pizza joint in Houston. I >> was waiting outside on a bench for him and noticed a coupla other guys >> waiting out front too. My buddy gets there, we order from the counter and >> turn around to find a table. HW and Bar are at a table in back with 2 girls, >> grandkids I guess. Brent Scowcroft was with them too. There was another guy >> hanging at another table just keeping an eye on things. >> >> They finished their lunch and were leaving, walked by us and we said hello >> to them, HW and Bar chatted a minute, very pleasant and nice. >> >> There were 2 black Suburbans outside, one for Bar and the girls and one for >> HW and BS. >> >> I liked them. >> >> --R >> Sent from iPhone >> >>> On Dec 2, 2018, at 3:54 PM, Curley McLain via Mercedes >>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>> >>> The Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola is free to visit, and WELL worth the >>> time. It also houses a sizable research library for all things related to >>> Naval Aviation. The Museum has the pilot's log book from on George H.W. >>> Bush, an ordinary Navy pilot. He was the pilot of torpedo bombers. From >>> my reading, it appears that torpedo bomber crews had the shortest life >>> expectancy of any Naval Aviator, at least until late in the war, when >>> Japanese ships became more scarce. It took guts to fly into fire that >>> broght down most torpedo bombers before they returned to the ship. The >>> last time he was shot down, he was the only survivor of his group, >>> according to the article linked below. >>> >>> RIP President Bush >>> >>> http://time.com/5468640/george-hw-bush-military-service-navy/ >>> >>> I say he was an ordinary pilot because he did what most of his generation >>> did. Went off to rid the world of murderous dictators. That was >>> ordinary. He was an ordinary pilot. But what his generation did as a >>> whole, was extraordinary! Being president makes him extraordinary. >>> >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
