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In reply to the discussion: CONFESS!!! Who was the first famous person you ever met [View all]DFW
(54,370 posts)Wow, my dad used to take me over to the Capitol when I was a kid, and we used to hang around the Senate Press Gallery. Before I had any idea who they were, I used to hang with Senators John F. Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey, Lyndon Johnson, Jacob Javits, Everett Dirksen, Frank Church. I couldn't even tell you which one I met first. Who remembers stuff like that when you were 6? I remember Dirksen best because he always tried to put on such a show. He was called the "Wizard of Ooze."
In L.A., I met Groucho Marx. I was 8 and he was already ancient. He told me to get lost! LOL
Met LOTS of famous people since. Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Bill Clinton, HRC, Gore, Bob Reich, Gerry Ford, Fritz Mondale, even Salvador Dali in 1968 in Barcelona, etc etc. Still remain friends with Howard Dean, Gabby Giffords, Stan Lee, Raymond Chrétien and Helen Thomas. When I was in my teens, my band used to hang with bands we backed up, which included the Youngbloods, Canned Heat (one of the first line-ups), Junior Wells, and I let Johnny Winter buy a guitar off of me at a festival in France because he fell in love with it.