Bobby Kennedy back in '68 when he was on his campaign tour.
The Most Famous Person You've Met
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Forester
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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.
SWBigBang
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Would have to be Donald Trump....back when he was popular.
feldspar13
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David Allan Coe
BruceHMX
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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.
Andy Griffith
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Zell Miller.
Eating breakfast in Young Harris, right up the street from his house.
Eating breakfast in Young Harris, right up the street from his house.
NCTexan
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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".
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".
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Texas Star
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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
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
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BOY would I love to meet Barbara Eden. Without a doubt one of the most beautiful ever, TV or movies.
bobcat
US Veteran
George Bush Sr., nice guy, gave me a tie bar, I wore it to my 2nd wedding. Gerald Ford when he was out of office, Barbara Bush, nice lady.
ricky nelson, fabian, clayton moore (he and i had a mock gun duel. he drew and shot before i even cleared leather), muhammad ali (picture and autograph), dick butkus ( picture and autograph), johnny unitas ( picture and autograph)
7shooter
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I've met a few. Maurice Chevalier in the Denver airport. Sugar Ray Leonard and Don King at a Kenny Norton fight in Mpls. Macho Camacho in Las Vegas when he was training for a fight. Leon Spinks in a bowling alley bar ( I have a picture of him with his arm around my shoulder... I wanted to ask him to take his bridge out for the photo but decided not to push it.) Woody Allen in Michaels Pub in NYC before I knew what a creep he was. Garrison Keeler in a bar after playing a softball game against his Jack's Auto Repair softball team from Lake Woebegone and before I knew what a creep he was too. In the shooting and self defense area Jerry Miculek, Jerry Barnhardt, Bruce Piatt, and John Farnam. And Timothy Leary at Princeton University a few days after he got out of prison ( he was not repentant).
USAF385
US Veteran
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.
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.
I have actually met several in my life.
Fleetwood Mac
Beach Boys
Jerry Barnhart
Arnold Swartzenegger
Dan "the Beast" Severn ( former UFC champ)
Then Senator Joe Knollenburg ( we met him at an NRA sponsored meeting in a woman's home near us)
Don "The Dragon" Wilson (same weekend as Arnold)
and a few others I can't recall at the moment. I got to meet a lot of Rock stars when I was young, because they all came into my brother-in-laws dad's business to play Pine Knob. We unloaded luggage from their planes, and they gave us tickets to their concerts.
Fleetwood Mac
Beach Boys
Jerry Barnhart
Arnold Swartzenegger
Dan "the Beast" Severn ( former UFC champ)
Then Senator Joe Knollenburg ( we met him at an NRA sponsored meeting in a woman's home near us)
Don "The Dragon" Wilson (same weekend as Arnold)
and a few others I can't recall at the moment. I got to meet a lot of Rock stars when I was young, because they all came into my brother-in-laws dad's business to play Pine Knob. We unloaded luggage from their planes, and they gave us tickets to their concerts.
Mickey D
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I hate to admit it but I shook hands with Ted Kennedy when he was campaigning for his brother Bobby.
My best most famous would have to be Bob Hoover.
One of the greatest test pilots and showman in the world.
My best most famous would have to be Bob Hoover.
One of the greatest test pilots and showman in the world.
JcMack
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Mary Hartline, star of live T.V. kids show Super Circus in Chicago circa: 1955. Cub Scouts (I was one 8 or so at the time) went to the live show and Mary patted me on the head. My father (who loved her) told me "never wash your head again" I never have.
greyhawk178
US Veteran
Playmate Patti McGuire....just before she was named Playmate of the Year. My signed copy of her issue Playboy has , somehow, disappeared. Nice gal. We, my ex and I, talked to her for about 1/2 an hour on her break at an auto show.
