Famous People Who Have Met Me
By John Lofton, Editor
- Famous People I Allowed To Meet Me - President Nixon
03/04/09 - Famous People I Have Let Know Me: George W. Bush Who I Worked For When I Was (Gulp!) A…(Arghhhhhhhhhhh!)…Republican
When Bush became Veep, we continued to see one another periodically, every six months or so, when I would visit him at the White House. These were “social calls” so they never appeared on his official schedule. That’s what he told me. But, hey!, it just occurred to me that this was just a cover story to keep the press from knowing that Bush was meeting with a maniac like me! 03/04/09 - Famous People Who Have Met Me: Richard Nixon
SOMETIME IN 1985, I think, when I wrote a column for the “Washington Times” newspaper (I’m on the left, in disguise.) In the middle, is Arnaud de Borchgrave, at the time “Editor” of the “Times,” a man who, obviously, slept through the alarm in his tanning booth. In the back is Bill Cheshire, Editorial Page Editor of the “Times.” 05/20/08 - Famous People Who Have Known Me: Ronald Reagan
10/01/07 - Famous People Who Have Known Me: A Letter Of Thanks From George H.W. Bush For (Arghhhh!) Helping GOP
See, I told you that as a former Republican, now a “Recovering Republican” — meaning an ex-Republican, no longer a Republican, NOT a Republican — I have a lot from which to recover. When at the RNC from 1970-73 (not a Christian then; thus I thought, acted like a child – I Corinthians 13:11), I was the GOP’s chief Party propagandist as Editor of the weekly newsletter “Monday.” Please forgive me…. 04/03/07 - Famous People Who Have Known Me: Barry Goldwater
SEN. BARRY GOLDWATER meets me, somewhere on Captiol Hill, in 1968 or 1969, I think. I’m sure it’s an event in his life that he never forgot — though when I attempted to approach him later to say “hi,” he had the Capitol Police Taze me to the turf, shoot me with rubber bullets and slap the cuffs on me. Mistaken identity, I guess, except Goldwater did tell the officers present:”Don’t let that maniac John Lofton get near me or all of you are fired!” I wonder if he knew I voted for him….. 01/31/07 - Famous People Who Have Met Me: William F. Buckley
William F. Buckley, Jr. meeting me when I was a secular conservative and not a Christian in, I think, 1968 but where I do not remember — which is OK. 01/26/07 - Famous People Who Have Known Me: Spiro Agnew
FORMER VICE PRESIDENT Spiro Agnew meeting me on his VP plane, in the early 1970s, when I worked at the Republican National Committee as (arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!) one of the GOP’s top Party propagandists. I was Editor of the RNC’s weekly publication named “Monday” (because it came out on Monday.) The Veep and I spent several hours together on a trip to and from some college in Iowa where he spoke. Agnew was a very intelligent, gutsy, well-informed, morally courageous man. Too bad he turned out to be a crook. He could have been President. Oh, and I was a Republican Party hack before I was a Christian.