sam
My blogs
| Location | Western Michigan, United States |
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| Introduction | I arrived in Washington just before the Kennedy assasination in 1963 and served through the Johnson Administration in both the Surgeon General's Office and the Office of the President. My work outside of government includes teaching, public relations & fund raising. I received an MA in history from Georgetown University where my mentor was one of the writers of Profiles in Courage. I was raised in the midwest as a staunch Republican Calvinist. I remain moderately both. |
| Interests | Reading history, detective fiction, politics, economics, religious works, walking, biking, watching American football & soccer, |
| Favorite movies | Cabaret, Dr Strangelove, Magnificent Seven, Friendly Persuasion, Lawrence of Arabia, Longest Day, Gone with the Wind, Great Caruso, Pork Chop Hill, Star Wars episode four, Never on a Sunday, French Connection, High Noon, The Informer, Julius Caesar (1951 with Brando), Hamlet (1948 with Olivier), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), and Shane. |
| Favorite music | Handel's Messiah, Jesus Christ Superstar, Rolling Stones, Tannhauser Pilgrim's Chorus, Alfred Dellar Consort, Joan Baez, Simon & Garfinkel, Beethovens Ninth Symphony, Cat Stevens, bagpipes, Mario Lanza, Renaissance Brass and Dance Music, organ music by Handel, Bach, and Buxtehude, Handel's Watermusic, Sixteen Tons by Tennesse Ernie, Heartbreak Hotel by Elvis, Ghost Riders by Vaughn Monroe, etc. |
| Favorite books | Bible, Shirer Rise & Fall of The Third Reich and Berlin Diary, Tolkien Hobbit & Ring Trilogy, CS Lewis Narnia series and Sci Fi trilogy, Dorothy Sayers Peter Wimsey books, Bram Stokers Dracula, Brideshead Revisited by Waugh, Scotts Ivanhoe, The Short Reign of Pippen IV by Steinbeck, Schlessinger Sr Life of Andrew Jackson, Caros trilogy on Lyndon Johnson, Schlessinger trilogy on FDR, Emil Ludwig Life of Napoleon, Stonewall Jackson & The American Civil War by Henderson, Hugo's Les Miserables and Dumas Three Musketeers. |