[billorites]

I got to shake Reagan's hand early in 1976 in a receiving line at Chateau DeVille in Framingham, Massachusetts.

He was the speaker at a Republican shindig and was vying for the Presidential nomination of the party. Ford prevailed, however, and Reagan had to wait until 1980. I often wonder how things would have been different had Reagan, not Carter, been inaugurated in January of 1981.

My other "brush with greatness" occurred in 1972 when Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott used the urinal next to me.

[mccafferty]

Thank you for sharing.

God bless you.

[krb]

I often wonder how things would have been different had Reagan, not Carter, been inaugurated in January of 1981.

Reagan was inaugurated in 1981.