Who is the most infamous person you've met?

[reflection]

195. In the week I was at that hotel

I ran into him so many times he began to call me by my first name and we had a couple of impromptu conversations. He told me that he thought protesting was one of the things that made this country great, and even said that today's protesters just didn't "have it" like the protesters in the 60s. "Those were REAL protesters," he said. "They really knew how to get noticed."

He also gave a private speech to our group one evening and I swear on a stack of whatever your book of choice is, he had some very unpleasant things to say about his son W. This was 2005. He was pretty much killing his son over his swaggering bluster and lack of diplomacy. I leaned over to my wife and whispered "if anyone brought a tape recorder to this event you and I are going to be witness to a very big story here." Apparently no one did though, because I never heard a word about it. I looked around the room that night though, as Bush 1 was railing on W and everyone was tripping just like I was. Definitely not expected.