Bobby Kennedy back in '68 when he was on his campaign tour.

Not all that famous but I shook hands with Rob Walton once. At about 5 Billion net worth at the time, it's the richest person I've ever met. I just looked it up ad Forbes says he's worth just under 20 billion these days.

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Would have to be Donald Trump....back when he was popular.

David Allan Coe

Bob Hope in the late 70's at an Ohio University football game of all places. He was in town to do a show on campus that night ...The short story...

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You are a God!!!I have his first 22 albums on cd.

I've met almost everyone from the tv show Hee Haw in the 1980's[except Buck and Roy],including the writers and producers,and Mickey D!!! By the way,great topic.

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I was a reporter for my Texas college newspaper and learned that then Texas Congressman George Bush (Sr.) was going to be in town. I called for the slight chance he might see me for an interview. His assistant told me to meet him at the Holiday Inn where he was staying... I was shocked.

I knocked on his room and he invited me in and we sat on the end of his bed while he helped me figure out good questions to ask him. He was very generous with his time and a true gentleman to a goofy college kid. I've always respected him.

We had the opportunity to live in Paris for several years in a pretty ritzy part of town. At dinner we sat next to the designer Jean Paul Gautier and his boy friend. He's the one who designed Madonna's famous golden bra. We talked and he was pleasant and indulgent of this American.

In another restaurant there we sat next to Roman Polanski and his new wife... I'll bet he'd like to be back in Paris now. He was not very friendly.

My wife was in a Dairy Queen in Dallas with our kids... when David Allan Coe walked in and stood in line behind them. My six year old daughter was very impressed with his belt buckle that said "David Allan Coe the Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy".

Me too as he was coming out of Trump building in NY.

George W Bush last October.

Billy bob Clinton. I've met Joe foot-in-mouth Biden multiple times, my mom was a campaign manager for him at one point. Met Al Bore once too, absolute and utter SOB. Biden was nice enough of a guy, but Clinton was very friendly and personable.

Zell Miller.
Eating breakfast in Young Harris, right up the street from his house.

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That's what Monica Lewinsky said too.

All the White House interns have said Clinton was very nice and personable.

I guess Richard Nixon. I shook his hand at a state fair.

I've met several celebrities, ranging from Presidents to Playmates. They seemed friendly and pretty human,in the main.

The warmest were Playmate Angela Little (before her centerfold appearance; we were just talking in a book store) and the actress who played Jeannie on, "I Dream of Jeanie." (Barbara Eden.)

The one with whom I talked longest (on two occasions) was Playmate Amanda Hope. (I know her last name, but she doesn't want it in print, as her stepfather is/was a lay preacher or something, and it would embarrass the family.)
She told me a lot about what goes on at Playboy behind the scenes and about some other Playmates about whom I was curious. She was kind to them, not at all catty. And she confirmed my feeling that Tiffany Sloan is especially sweet and kind. In fact, she roomed with Tiffany while they played in Playboy's Girls of Rock and Roll. (Amanda plays clarinet. Some of you guys may recall her playing clarinet in an Army band. It was in her centerfold feature.)

She was so patient and helpful that I bought her groceries the first time I met her, in, obviously, the grocery store. I was just talking to her as an attractive chick, when she mentioned playing a clarinet, and it clicked why she looked familiar.

Richard Nixon was more stressed and reserved, and not nearly as pretty. But I was just a young kid then, and I guess he knew that I couldn't vote... I think he was also uneasy in crowds or in having to deal with voters. He came across as an imperial introvert. I was pretty young, but that thought has remained with me over the years, and I think it was an accurate impression.


T-Star

BOY would I love to meet Barbara Eden. Without a doubt one of the most beautiful ever, TV or movies.

George W Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Hillary Clinton and John McCain.

Bush and Rumsfeld while on duty, Clinton when she and Bill visited Lake Winola when I was in middle school, and McCain was the speaker at my sister's graduation from Johns Hopkins. I got to meet all four in person.

I've also met James Earl Jones (my brothers college graduation, Ithaca College), David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson from the X-Files. They were doing a show based on a local area and they may have been doing some filming, but they said they often go to areas to research what it's like to make the shows more authentic.

Oh, I peed next to Bruce Willis at a urinal in NY... but I didn't talk to him or anything... that would have been pretty weird.

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Saw a lot of famous people but the one which stands out was my classmate at Overbrook High School in Philadelphia, WILT CHAMBERLAIN

Al Sharpton before he was known outside of the NYC/ Albany area. (believe me I would rather have had some intestinal parasite). But I did get to meet Charles W. "Chuck" Lindberg, who was the last surviving member of the first Iwo Jima flag raising (the second was the one made famous by the Rosenthal photo). I met him in 2003 when he dedicated a memorial and cemetary locally and got to shake his hand and he signed a program for me which I still have. I would rather meet more heroes like him than any overpaid celebrity or athlete any day of the week.

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"stands out "

Just a little...

Hello...met Hank Williams Jr. at the OGCA show in Shelby, Ohio many years ago...well actually did not formally meet him but did go up to him and ask him if he was Hank Jr.. and he said he was! His name badge said "Special Guest" but I believe he is a member of OGCA. Thanks

1. 1960-then Senator & VP candidate LBJ
2. 1962-Arthur Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury
3. 1964-then Senator & VP candidate Hubert Humphrey
4. 1969-William Westmoreland
5. 1978-Abba Eban
6. 1979-Neil Armstrong
7. 2008-Ernest Borgnine
8. 2009-Tony Curtis

Blue Oyster Cult
I still have the guitar picks

Lee Greenwood at a bar called vances in Racine
Barry Sadler at a bar called the Country palace in Columbus Ga.
James Garner at the Indy 500

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Too many to recall, but here's a few that I can recall off the top of my head.

Proudest current - US Senator Scott Brown (just as down to earth in person as you've seen him on TV).

Least wanted to meet - Tricky Dick Nixon as he was campaigning for Prez. Couldn't avoid shaking hands as he extended his to me and couldn't wait to wash it off afterwards. I was News Director at my college radio station (an ABC Affiliate) and thus met all candidates for Prez and VP in 1968 (excluding Bobby Kennedy and one other VP candidate).

I interviewed Eliot Richardson at Nixon HQ-Boston the night of the election. Elliot Richardson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Randomly:

Don Rickles
Ted Kennedy (before he murdered Mary Jo)
many popular wrestlers in the 1960s
numerous MA governors, state senators/reps
numerous singers/bands from the 1960s-1970s
NYC Mayor Koch
Robert Ballard - fascinating man

Mario Andretti, Barbara Bach, and George "The Animal" Steel.

Not at the same time, and not in that order!

Was three feet away from Whitney Houston just before she went on stage, but did not speak to her. I had the backstage detail, and we were not supposed to be bothering the "Stars".

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I met Hulk Hogan through a mutual friend about 15 years ago. Very nice guy. Seemed real down to earth and not at all pretentious. Also met his wife and remember thinking she was more affected by his fame than he was - kind of like a military officer's wife that thinks the "rank" belongs to her as well.

Richard Nixon at Pendleton when the 1stMarDiv came back from Viet Nam
Ronald Regan when he addressed the Tn State Legislature
John Glenn
Alan B. Shepard
Jim Lovell (Apollo 13)
Scott Carpenter
General Stormin Norman Schwartzkopft (Big Man and I'm 6' 1" 240)
Numerous C&W & Opry stars from my time in Nashville
Dick Butkus
Merlin Olson
Too Tall Jones
Mike Ditka
Franco Harris
Rocky Blier
Terry Bradshaw
Bill Ruger

Just a few I can remember for now

Theodore Kaczynski, the future Unibomber, about five months before his first bombing, at a party in Chicago in late November or early December 1977. (I'm not kidding.) As far as I know, no one else at the party was anti-technology or a psychopath, but the only people I actually knew there was an ex-girlfriend and her brother, so who knows.


Jerry Miculek, at an indoor range in High Point, NC, in the early 1990s. He was doing some exhibition shooting, and we talked for about 15 minutes. Very amiable guy.

For any fans of the Chicago blues who might know the name, I spent about 20 minutes at a bar talking with guitarist Mighty Joe Young.

Neil Armstrong
Chuck Yeager
Bob Hoover

Oh, and Peter, Paul & Mary after a concert...my cute kids got us the invite back stage.

Bob

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Hard to say who was the most famous... but the person I was most thrilled to meet was Col. Hank Potter, Jimmy Doolittle's navigator. He lived two doors down from me in Austin ,TX.

Potter

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Saw Hank Jr at National Gun Day in Louisville in '95.

actually met:

R. Lee Ermy
Charlton Heston
Wayne LaPierre
John Y. Brown Jr. (owned KFC)
Several other Kentucky governors
Former Congressman Bob Barr
Mitch McConnell

I was waiting for a cab @ 7:00 am and Muhammed Ali was waiting for his limo downstairs/outside at O'Hare. We talked for about 10 minutes (what about, I don't recall) until his entourage and girlfriend at the time Veronica Porsche came outside from the baggage area.
I found him to be very perseptive and friendly. I remember that I was surprised at how tall and large he was in person (I'm 6'-4" and felt small standing next to him)
A few weeks later he lost to Leon Spinks.
Never thought to get an autograph.

Steven Tyler
Joe Perry
Brad Whitford
Joey Krammer
Seth Green
Pattie LaBelle
Robin Williams
Jon Voigt
Robert Klein
Josh Todd and Stevie D. (Buckcherry)
Slash
Nikki Sixx
James Michael (Sixx AM)
Shakira
Jill Rappaport

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I met Ronald Reagan when he was running for Pres in 1980. For you racing fans I did some carpentry work on Bobby Rahals house the year he won Indy for the first time. There are some funny stories about conversations you overhear when people consider you part of the woodwork.

Met Bob Hope after his last USO show. Though actually he was in my nieghborhood fairly often visiting family.

Mary Travers (Peter, Paul and Mary), flew from London to NY on a 747 with her when I was returning from Turkey. Willie Nelson, Smokey Robinson and Harry Connick - they were all playing and staying at Humphries in San Diego where we kept our boat. Congressman Brian Bilbray is a boat buddy as well.

I see a lot of guys mentioning Playmates. Well I can't say her name, but I use to babysit a Bunnies children when I was 14 or 15. The dates arrived in a Porsche or Stingray, off they go to have fun. Well most of the fun was when they came home. I could gauge my paycheck by how long they were upstairs making noise. And I got a ride home later in a nice car.

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Ned Beatty used to come to the local turkey shoots where he shot some sort of muzzle loading side by side. He has a home in the mountains east of town. Also, Dick Brooks 1969 NASCAR rookie of the year. He was in my class in high school.

I have met a few important people, but the one I liked the most was Barry Golwater. 5 of us got to seat down and chatted for about an hour after he gave a talk at a Ariz. convention I was attending. He was in his late 80's and he didn't sugar coat any of his answers.

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Have Gun Will Travel

Oh I forgot. Played paintball with Robin Williams and his two sons.

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Sir, as a young PFC at Camp Pendleton, I briefly met Gen. O.P. Smith at a dog-and-pony show. He was the CG of the 1st MarDiv at the Chosin Reservoir.

In the mid-'90s I did some work on Kyle Petty's house on the Isle of Palms. He wasn't there, but his wife, Patty, and kids were. Very nice people.

As a reporter covering the Colorado legislature, I met a number of state senators and representatives, some of whom are now congressmen, but none famous outside their districts (and some maybe not even within). Mostly they seemed like good, conscientious people, which surprised me.

Covering the cable industry, I've met a number of high-level engineers and executive suite types, but again, nobody the average person would recognize.

Apparently I need to get out more.

Hope this helps, and Semper Fi.

Ron H.

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Had breakfast with Bobby and Ethel Kennedy by chance at a Nantuckett restaurant. Went to high school with Playmate Carol Vitale, now deceased.

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Richard Petty - February 1999ish Daytona Beach Florida.

Also met Kyle Petty and John Andretti that same weekend.

George Bush Sr. when he was Vise Pres.

Shook hands with Wayne LaPierre at a KSRA function once. And Rugskipper, I worked with Dennis Rader (BTK) for a time at ADT, like you said you wouldn't have had any idea, he had murdered six people by that time.

For what it's worth, my wife and I met Savanna Samson a few years ago in Huntsville. She's famous for being in movies, but not necessarily Academy Award winners. However, in my opinion, she was quite motivational to me.

None other than Elvis Presley. After he finished Army basic training, he was assigned to active duty in Germany. His MATS plane landed at Ernest Harmon AFB, Stephenville, Newfoundland in the wee hours of the morning. Almost every mother on base took their kids to the base terminal to see him. What impressed me most was that he was a polite, humble guy that made time for everyone to take a picture or get his autograph. Mom still has the picture she took.

Muhammed Ali.

He was reaching around the adults and giving autographs to little kids. My then 8-year-old son got one. He's 36 now and still has it.

I learned a lot about the man from others over the years. Aside from his politics (I don't care about politics much anymore, anyway) a true champion.

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In the gun world......

Jeff Cooper

Jerry Michelek

Roy Jinks

Others.......

Ollie North

Jimmy Swaggart

Bufurd Pusser

Lloyd Bridges

Rocky Marciano

Donna Douglas



In the music world......

Actually too many to list....I used to work in the music business,touring,etc....and being a musician myself,I sat in with some very well known performers.....Some of them,I'd like to forget.

I would have really enjoyed meeting Buford Pusser and Ollie North.

Met Condoleezza Rice several times at the Camp Diamondback Airfield in Mosul Iraq. Met several of the SC members of this forum in SC.
Chop

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