Just between me, you and the bushes...

Martin Luther King Jr. Was a Republican. Well, the Republicans did have a voter drive in the great state of Mississippi (and they got that barge canal over the "energy island" for NYC Congress once chose). They got hold of voters rolls or something and cross compared them with phone books I read. They then cold-called people to get them to register to vote. Bravo! However they were also reminding (or harassing) that a Republican called to get out the vote. Anyone have a recording of their "pep" speech? On a less happy note I read in the New Hampshire "Granite State News" a number of years ago that MLKjr had friends in Wolfeboro, NH and where it was reported Coretta Scott King, his wife, was hidden after the assassination. Wolfeboro is also where recently there is the small Wright Museum of WWII (former Wolfeboro Falls lumber yard) partly designed by the D.C. "Holocaust Museum" designer I was told. Former Vice President Dan Quayle was seen at the local lunch counter one election year and its said Bob and Libby Dole bought a judge's place out near the now to be decommissioned grass airfield on Wolfeboro Neck. Another rumor I heard in an antique barn was that Tom Selleck, a friend of the Doles', bought a place across the former seaplane strip over on Tuftonboro Neck. Wolfeboro, New Hampshire: Vice President George W. Bush stopped on the upper deck of the Motor Ship Mount Washington to ask the small crowd gathered at dockside to join him in a moment of silence. President Ronald Reagan was to go under general anesthesia for a colon probe and operation to correct a diagnosed medical condition. Vice President Bush would be Acting President during the procedure. He appeared to be wearing garters on his sleeves, perhaps. Vice President George W. Bush left the ship's deck and came ashore, and was surrounded by the Secret Service and whisked into a waiting limo.

I was getting an ice cream cone at "Dockside".

oops... Vice President H. W. Bush. Please believe me that really happened. I once was on the side of the road at MacArthur Airport on Long Island, NY when Hubert Humphrey went by who I still recall said "Thank you, boys" which we were. Later President Nixon stopped there at night in the old Air Force One and they moved the placard holding demonstrators to behind the bleachers. When President George W. Bush visited St Patrick's Cathedral, there were two sections one up the street away from the church for the myriad placard holding peaceful demonstrators and another cheering section out in front of the cathedral. I was there on a bus I had been called in in the middle of the day to go pick up maps to get the archaeological surveys of the Upper Hudson River for the GE PCB cleanup designed by T.A.M.S. which was then bought by TYCO, embroiled in fiscal scandal thereafter. Coincidently, under the alter in St. Patrick's, before Cardinal O'Connor "joined him" is Pierre Toussaint, a famous African-American Catholic helper of the poor in NYC whose burial was excavated apparently by an archaeologist for the church.