It’s been fun, although I’m math challenged so all the numbers are formidable. Romney was to have been here in Dayton tonight and I had front row seats-—would have been the third US president I saw-—Reagan, Bush (in the Oval Office), and Romney.
“...would have been the third US president I saw...’
I saw ‘em all in an earlier time...Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, Nixon, Reagan...
I heard FDR ‘Fireside Chats’ on the radio. I voted for Nixon three times. I have a bar in my home that was used to serve the Kennedy’s...it was made by and previously in the home of Ray Miller, Dem Chairman of Cuyahoga County and the first big city pol to back JFK...the Kennedy’s were guests in the Miller home both as candidate and as president. I voted for Reagan absentee when I lived in Northern Ireland...
Re Ray Miller, Cuyahoga County Dem Chairman...three brothers followed him at Notre Dame. One, the last of the four brothers to go there, was one of the Four Horsemen. The Four Horsemen of Notre Dame of course comprised a winning group of American football players at the University of Notre Dame under coach Knute Rockne. They were the backfield of Notre Dame’s 1924 football team. The players that made up this group were Harry Stuhldreher, Don Miller, Jim Crowley, and Elmer Layden.
Miller, a native of Defiance, Ohio, followed his three brothers to Notre Dame. At 5-11, 160 pounds, Miller proved to be the team’s breakaway threat. According to Rockne, Miller was the greatest open-field runner he ever coached.