I shook hands with two presidents, including George HW Bush at a receiving line at a diplomatic function in NYC in 1973. Very decent guy.
15 years earlier I met JFK in an elevator at my local NY public library when he was a US Senator. He was all alone and looked impressive in his navy blue cashmere overcoat (it was the winter of 1958) We were staunch Democrats so my mother made a point of telling JFK how much we admired him. He had an aura about him that even I as a kid recognized was special. On Sun, Dec 2, 2018 at 7:19 PM Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________ 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
