Reply #86: Unfortunately I am one degree of separation from GWB

[MikeH]

I knew Robert Zoellick. I did much of my growing up in Naperville, Illinois, and lived there most of the 1960's. Robert Zoellick lived just half a block from where I lived. I knew Robert Zoellick, his older brother, and his mother. I was 3 years ahead of Robert in school, and his older brother was one year ahead of me.

Naperville, in Dupage County, has always been very Republican and conservative. I remember a lot of people were for Barry Goldwater in 1964. Though back in the 1960's there were a lot of good and decent people in the Republican party, unlike today.

Here is a DU thread from a couple of years ago showing Zoellick and GWB.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

I have a brother who lives in Washington, DC, and who has worked in some government agencies. He often sees famous people, though I don't know if he personally knows well any famous person.

I also have a good friend, a former co-worker from one of my early jobs, who lives in the Washington DC general area and has been writing for some magazines dealing with Defense issues. I think he meets or has met some famous or well known people from time to time, though I can't think of who offhand.

I remember one time, in 1983, my parents met the astronaut John Glenn, who was then a Senator from Ohio. I don't recall the occasion for their meeting him. My dad at the time was President and CEO of a regional electric utility company. So my parents met somebody who was out of this world.