The Detroit Auto Show got underway yesterday, and in the way I have lately of linking these things, the show always makes me think of a woman named Michele and the romantic, embarrassing mess of an encounter I had with her so…
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The Detroit Auto Show, A Woman Name Michele, A Failed Romance
Tagged with: CBS News, Chicago, Detriot, Detroit Auto Show, Dorothy Hunt, E. Howard Hunt, Harold Robbins, Michele Clark, Richard Nixon, Walter Cronkite, Watergate, WBBM-TV
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The Last Time I Saw Jimmy Hoffa…
The last time I saw Jimmy Hoffa he was okay. It was late in the morning, and I left him standing with William F. Buckley Jr. on the floor of a Detroit television studio. What happened after that, I can’t say. We…
Tagged with: 1972, Detroit, Firing Line, Frank Mankiewicz, George McGovern, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Jimmy Hoffa, Public Television, Richard Nixon, Robert Kennedy, unions, William F. Buckley Jr., WTVS
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Neil Armstrong’s Mother Liked My Suit
Before I met Neil Armstrong’s mother, I bought a new suit. It was gray with blue pin stripes. I looked like a twenty-year-old banker in it. A pimply twenty-year-old banker. I thought of that suit again yesterday when the news came…
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