In the early seventies H L Hunt set up a booth at the Texas State Fair selling HLH Gastro-Majic indigestion pills. I’m deadly serious I was 23 years old and fresh out of the Marine Corps when I turned the corner and there was H L Hunt. Surprisingly there was no one around and I stepped up to the booth and quite frankly shot the sh$t with one of the worlds richest men. I found him to be witty and self deprecating. I will of course never forget those few moments. I believe he did have a genius gene. I liked him!
Good story.
Ross Perot favored me once with his business and I even went to his estate. He’s another charming, if eccentric, genius. And fortunately for him and his legacy, he doesn’t have similar problems with his offspring as we see with the Hunt clan. (And far too many others)
Read the whole interesting article. Not a word about Bunker and others. What am I missing? Seems they’re fighting over $2-4-billion, which in the whole scheme of things these days doesn’t seem like much. What entity, for example, cut the oil deal with Iraq? BTW, although I never met H. L., I am aware that years ago he was more interested in talking about his HLH food products than his oil interests, etc. Old joke went something like this: When asked whether he was concerned that Lamar was losing some number of millions every year on the K. C. Chiefs, he replied that yes he was concerned because it meant that in a hundred years Lamar would be broke.