Okay, Boneyarders, who's met the President, any US President?
Encounters with me seem to have doomed nationally known politicians. They went on to get defeated in presidential elections, or failed to get the nomination, or got elected and then run out of office, or ended up in jail.
Met Dewey as a small child at an awards ceremony. (I was the small child, but come to think of it he was pretty small too.) The thick carpets in his mansion in Albany made me strike sparks when I touched anything. Or maybe it was anti-theft devices.
Nixon walked past me at a Boy Scout national jamboree when he was VP. After Dewey, I thought he'd lose too, but my vibe seems to have worked in other ways as well.
Posed questions to Goldwater when he spoke to a group of us congressional interns. He answered the tricky questions (supplied to me by an AA to my Dem congressman) pretty well. So I said "I guess extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice." He remembered that, and went on from there.
You may consider the bit about extremism as apocryphal, and I won't argue. But speaking of my Dem congressman, after spending two summers with me he went on to get convicted in the Abscam sting operation. It wasn't my doing. At least not directly.
Whereas Nixon had walked past me, I walked past Ted Kennedy at a reception. He was the not-too-well known youngest brother of a rising political star. Nice dark suit with a red carnation in his lapel. No one was talking to him. I didn't either. But true to form (mine) his bid for the nomination was a bridge too far.
Attended a talk by one of his older brothers as well. Not the one who became President. The other one, who didn't. Can't joke about the Curse of JS on that one, whose death cast a pall over my Peace Corps training group.
Anyway, my record is such that I was thinking of signing on to Anthony Weiner's bid for Mayor of NYC. But it seems I must've met him before somewhere. Certainly not online, but the signs of some kind of previous encounter are definitely there.
