Thanks for sharing.
I also talked to him on AOL political - but it was later than 1993! My goodness, you guys were pioneers of the Internet!
I listened to him subbing for Rush, and I loved him. While I love the economic intellect of hosts like Walter Williams, I find Walter so boring compared to someone like Tony Snow. Tony would fire you up. He did a commentary on Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech one time and commented on each line of the rhetoric.
Tony would engage almost anyone at anytime - and he had a Freeper's "chutzpah" to engage in debate.
This REALLY shocked the mostly Liberal reporters in the White House Press Room!
Especially after that dead lizard Scott McClellan set a precedent so low you had to dig below the basement to raise it.
When Tony arrived, the press was shocked.
Tony didn't let them have their personal liberal soapbox in the People's House. He didn't let them have their childish tirades in front of the cameras.
They quickly learned - that Tony was beating them at their own game and by letting them act in that fashion they looked like the jerks they had become.
It was beautiful.
Tony loved his family. He loved swim meets outside of the beltway (I got roped into those when I worked at the Pentagon, and I didn't like them too much, and I did my "duty" at the stop watch, but Tony was a better sports parent than I am.) I hated getting up at 4 am in Northern VA to go to swim meets and stay there until 2 pm timing swim races. Tony, on the other hand, loved that sort of thing! He loved his children in every possible way.
have a story I'm not so proud of also...when he was in San Diego in 1996 for the Republican Convention I was upset because he didn't contact me although he said he would. I accidentally ran into him in the hallway of the convention center and he said we should go to lunch. I said no. I was just a bitch...no other excuse. I wound up writing him a scathing email that I shouldn't have. I fully expected never to hear from him again. But I was wrong. He called me the moment he got that email and apologized and explained how busy he was and how sorry he was. He was on his way up and I thought my note would give him the excuse to just let go of our friendship.
He was a better person than most of us.
But, he sure thought a lot of you.
Didn't he?
You should forget about the bad part, and remember the better part. I am sure he forgot about it way, waaaaaaay long ago - and he clearly liked you!
I also wanted to bring up another tragedy that he handled with grace...remember when his house burned down? He talked about that house on the radio all the time while it was being built. He loved it. And then the news came that there was a fire and it was all gone. All he said was that his family was ok an that's all he cared about. I don't think he ever dwelled on it again which is why we don't remember it.
I didn't know he lost his house to a fire?! Wow.
My tagline says it all. I hope one day, if and when I'm promoted, I will meet up with my friend again.
Amen.