by Rodney Eric Griffith | Armour of Rod | |
When I was in my late 20s I had a thing for the Gemstone File—this was probably around the time the late Jim Keith’s book on the Gemstone File came out—and I asked my mother what it was like when news of the JFK assassination hit. To my surprise she told me one of her high school classmates had worked as a secretary at the White House during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and the classmate was on board Air Force One when LBJ was sworn in. This was told directly to my mother at one of their high school class reunions. Mom told me the woman’s name was Christine, so I’m guessing this would be Christine Camp, who was the former assistant to Pierre Salinger, then White House Press Secretary.
Rodney | 9:04:00 AM [permalink]It’s nominally the first day of Spring but outside the window there is the most intense, gentle snowfall. As I said in the beginning, I’m very fond of winter. (My fondness is not shared by my wife, who is at this point extremely tired of the cold.)
I’m learning ever more about my trade. The craft consumes much of my time, and I let it go quiet here as a consequence. Any day now I expect to tell everything; I am certainly closer than I have ever been (at least until I see someone else’s designs and my confidence is shaken until I remember the water).
I could not possibly sum up the phony controversy over Janet Jackson as concisely and sagely as Richard Thompson has.
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