The Most Famous Person You've Met

"fame" like glory can be fleeting.
I have been fortunate enough to meet a number of persons whose names will endure for years,in my opinion.
Gen. Mark Clark when was President of The Citadel and socially for years.
Paul Tibbets,pilot of Enola Gay of Hiroshima fame,
Henry Kissinger
Gen. Chuck Yeager
Bob Hoover, great pilot and very friendly
Gen. James Doolittle and his Raiders
David "Tex" Hill Gen USAF of Flying Tigers and other members
Dr. Denton Cooley,probably worlds foremost cardiac surgeon.
Dr. Mason Sones, developed coronary arteriography
Dr. Andreas Gruntzig,developed coronary angioplasty.
Was humbled to meet many Medal of Honor Recipients.
I believe the names of these outstanding people will be long remembered and respected.
 
Prince Berhard of the Netherlands by an opening of the Marine museum at Rotterdam.

Horseride with Phil Spangenberger while I was visiting him.
 
The most famous person I've met would be Sir Edmund Hillary.

I have also met the following
Col Carl Sitter (Medal of Honor recipient)
Maj Fred Tilston, VC
Admiral Mike Mullen
Sen Jim Bunning
Terry Bradshaw
 
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I met Tom Landry back in '93.

You meet some people and can tell right off the bat they have their stuff together. Tom was such a man.

Class, intelligence , humility, I was highly impressed with his character.
 
Red Skelton
Paul Bryant
Lee Ermey (he wasn't quite so famous then) and GySgt Carlos Hathcock at the division matches when I was a rooty poo Cpl on the 2nd Division Pistol Team. Still refuse to wash the hand Gunny Hathcock shook.
 
Back about 1964 I got to meet my boyhood hero - Stirling Moss - who I still consider to be the best racing driver ever (but Dale Earnhart was a close second). Chatted with him for a half hour or so and he autographed a photo for me. A few years after that I spent a day with Gregory Peck. I was doing some work for a charity and he was in town to do promotional appearances. They needed somebody to chauffeur him around for the day and I volunteered. Met him at the airport and was with him the whole day. I remember him being a very soft-spoken gentle man. Some time after that I ran into Red Skelton - literally ran into him. I was going into the FAO Schwartz store in San Francisco and he was coming out carrying an armload of packages and we collided. I helped him pick them up and we were both kind of laughing about it but I didn't realize who he was until I'd taken a few steps and then it hit me - That was Red Skelton!

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Geo. Bush several times, The Hunt brothers (Ray, Bunker & Nelson), Red Adair (oilfield guy) & Mikhail Kalashnikov but was most impressed with Jack Schmidt (?), first geologist to go to the moon. Spent a weekend at a flyfishing resort once while he was there & he gave a presentation. A very interesting guy.
Professional athletes, entertainers & politicians hold no interest for me. I wouldn't cross the street for one but that's just me.
Beruisis
 
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Mike Walker. I use to shoot bench rest with him. Puts all the ones listed in prior post to shame. He was a GUN MAN!
Homer Culver. Ferrell Pendelis. Jeff Cooper. Jim Carmichael. Ed Shilling, P J Hart.
Dam, do none of you guys know an gun people?
 
Michael Jordan, twice. First - he and his buddy played through us at Shadow Creek in Vegas, in the process we played a couple holes together. He was a little evasive up front, but after the first green we were on together then he was very nice and talkative. The next hole and a half was really interesting, we talked college basketball a little bit, and we caught up with him afterwards where he continued to be warm and even signed a couple items. This was about 6-7 years ago.
Then caught up with him again a couple years ago in Louisville at the Ryder Cup, he was the exact same way. Not very interested at the intro, but after talking about our golf/Vegas encounter he warmed up again.
Basically, he is just the freakin man - and he's cool as they come, just as you would imagine.
 
Kitty Wells. We lived around the corner from them when I was growing up. Her son Bobby and I played together some. In more recent times I met Hickok 45 at a gun show. Nice guy. Don
 
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