Mr. Daniel McNally.......dialing in this week from Macomb, IL
(in between classes and bomb threats)
was in with the first correct answer.....CONGRATS!!
Leslie Lynch King, Jr.
(aka Gerald R. Ford....pictured above with his "really Secret Service")
.
Pretty interesting life story......too much to print here..
but click here.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford
--not "elected" to Vice-President or President for that matter.
--played against the Bears in a 1935 exhibition game.....
(as a member of the Collegiate Football Team.....center for University of Michigan)
-- once shot a "hole-in-one"
--worked as a Yellowstone Park Ranger....
--survived 2 assassination attempts to become the longest living US President before passing on the day after Christmas at age 93, in 2006.
(Harry Truman also died on the same day in 1972)
--was appointed to the Warren Commission by LBJ....
(his role was to prepare a biography of Lee Harvey Oswald)
--later commented that.....
"the CIA destroyed or kept from investigators critical secrets connected to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy"
mmmmmmmmmmm.......will never know!
(Somebody get Wikileaks on that!)
Marty
Terre Haute, IN
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