As an aside, in 1965 my family stayed at the DC Hilton. It was a time when kids ran free, so a 10 year old (me) and my twin brothers 8, played hide and seek. We found ourselves face to face with HHH in his 'secured' suite in the lower level of the hotel. It was being cleaned and the door was open. In we went. Bottom line, no makeup, no s…
As an aside, in 1965 my family stayed at the DC Hilton. It was a time when kids ran free, so a 10 year old (me) and my twin brothers 8, played hide and seek. We found ourselves face to face with HHH in his 'secured' suite in the lower level of the hotel. It was being cleaned and the door was open. In we went. Bottom line, no makeup, no suit, no visible security (!?), Lots of freckles and extremely gracious. Seeing that we were mortified, he assured us that we would not be arrested and gave us passes to tour the Capitol. Lasting impression.
Around that time I was a member of the Teen Are Republicans on Long Island. A friend, Jack Freedman, and I had gone to one of their quarterly meetings in Albany. Late one morning in the Capitol Building my State Senator had spent some twenty minutes or so showing us a display of paintings done by NYS prisoners as part of their rehabilitation.
An hour later Jack and I got into an elevator that already had one person in it, the Lt. Governor Malcolm Wilson. Naturally we greeted him and shook his hand, we had recognized him immediately but had never met him before.
He seemed way too happy with us. He asked us questions about where we lived, our schools, had we had lunch yet, etc.
Long story short, he seemed lonely. he showed us the art show contradicting the Senator often, took us to lunch, and spent over three hours with us at the spur of the moment.
Both Jack and I thought it was very strange that the "number two man" in the state had nothing better to do then spend an afternoon with us.
As an aside, in 1965 my family stayed at the DC Hilton. It was a time when kids ran free, so a 10 year old (me) and my twin brothers 8, played hide and seek. We found ourselves face to face with HHH in his 'secured' suite in the lower level of the hotel. It was being cleaned and the door was open. In we went. Bottom line, no makeup, no suit, no visible security (!?), Lots of freckles and extremely gracious. Seeing that we were mortified, he assured us that we would not be arrested and gave us passes to tour the Capitol. Lasting impression.
Around that time I was a member of the Teen Are Republicans on Long Island. A friend, Jack Freedman, and I had gone to one of their quarterly meetings in Albany. Late one morning in the Capitol Building my State Senator had spent some twenty minutes or so showing us a display of paintings done by NYS prisoners as part of their rehabilitation.
An hour later Jack and I got into an elevator that already had one person in it, the Lt. Governor Malcolm Wilson. Naturally we greeted him and shook his hand, we had recognized him immediately but had never met him before.
He seemed way too happy with us. He asked us questions about where we lived, our schools, had we had lunch yet, etc.
Long story short, he seemed lonely. he showed us the art show contradicting the Senator often, took us to lunch, and spent over three hours with us at the spur of the moment.
Both Jack and I thought it was very strange that the "number two man" in the state had nothing better to do then spend an afternoon with us.
Wonderful story Wendy!
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