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I wholeheartedly agree with you. I sent Bush an email the other day and told him that one of the reasons I voted for him was to get the FBI back into the category of church, motherhood, and apple pie. But then, those three have gone to pot, too. I made an apple pie the other day and it did not taste like my mother's.

I have had some unusual and unique experiences in seeing and/or meeting important people beginning while I was in the Navy and continuing in civilian life. In 1958, President Eisenhower spoke to me and sat in front of me in chapel. In 1959, the queen, crown prince, and crown princess of Thailand came aboard my ship in Bangkok. I met Robert Kennedy and Ethel and conversed with them in Hong Kong when they came aboard my ship. I met John Cabot Lodge, Henry Cabot Lodge's brother, a reserve captain, during his active duty for training in Yokosuka, Japan. I met Admiral Thomas Moorer on several occasions while he was Commander, Seventh Fleet. I met and talked to Admiral Arleigh Burke while at the Naval Destroyer School in Newport. I met Senator John Tower. I saw President Ford and German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt at the White House when I was on duty at the Pentagon in 1976. About that same time I saw Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. I flew candidate-to-be George H. W. Bush in my airplane from Jasper, Texas to Houston--in 1978. I met and talked to Bill Brock, Jack Kemp, and Pierre DuPont and saw candidate Ronald Reagan several times in Houston. I spent a day with former Congressman Dornan in Houston in 1978 while campaigning for Reagan. While working on Aruba, I saw Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and the crown prince. More recently, I met and spoke with Senator Pete Domenici and Governor Owens of Colorado.

Sounds like the life of Forrest Gump! : )