I took along some show-and-tell items, including this late-1980s photo of me (with hair and spectacles) loitering behind Muhammad Ali, Nixon, and former New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath. Nixon had given up his Secret Service protection in 1985, so in crowded rooms it sometimes fell to his private guard or me to take the point. At this event, a fundraiser in Manhattan for a Nixon friend's medical charity, I was edging forward, my eyes over my shoulder on the boss, when I ran up against a brick wall that turned out to be the former heavyweight champion of the world.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
The Mountain Of Muhammad
I took along some show-and-tell items, including this late-1980s photo of me (with hair and spectacles) loitering behind Muhammad Ali, Nixon, and former New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath. Nixon had given up his Secret Service protection in 1985, so in crowded rooms it sometimes fell to his private guard or me to take the point. At this event, a fundraiser in Manhattan for a Nixon friend's medical charity, I was edging forward, my eyes over my shoulder on the boss, when I ran up against a brick wall that turned out to be the former heavyweight champion of the world.
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Sounds as if you took a good approach to the class presentation. And taking some show and tell stuff along was a good move, too. Great photo of Ali, you, RN, and Namath -- looking at Ali, I totally think "wall," LOL.
Thanks, MK. It was a bright group of young people -- good questions and excellent insights on some of the lessons of the Cold War.
It's always a blessing when my vocations conjoin!
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