I am so old I remember when the Naugahydes went extinct. How old are you?

[MosheFeingold]

44. I have a rotary phone.

And I can use it as fast as you can a key pad.

It used to be on a party line. In a suburb of Washington DC.

I had friends die of polio.

I came to America. On a boat. And went back to Europe in a troop carrier.

I interrogated Nazis. (I am a native German speaker.) Broke a few teeth, too. I really don't care what people think of my interrogation techniques here.

I got rabies shots in my stomach after getting bit by a stray dog who did, indeed, have rabies. I was fine. I considered that a miracle.

I was a cop and had a short barreled 4 shot .38 and a large wooden club. And walked the beat in roughest parts of NYC. People knew me and I knew them and we got along fine. Yes, I hit people. No, I didn't shoot them. In hindsight, hitting appears to work better.

I saw John Kennedy get shot on TV and Robert Kennedy get shot from about 20 feet away from me in the Ambassador Hotel.

I saw LBJ grab the ass of his black-lady secretary and crudely laugh and point to us young lawyer/staffers. She took it in stride.

I drank Scotch with Tip O'Neil, regularly (no one remembers him, and they should). He thought LBJ was an asshole.

I got in in a push fight with Robert Byrd after drinking with Tip, because Byrd was an asshole and a bigot and nearly lost my job.

Walter Kronkite was very very, very smart. Dan Rather was not. Walter would send all staffers personal cards and knew our names and families. Dan couldn't remember our names after meeting us 100 times.

Nixon was as gruff as he appeared to be.

Ford was very imposing in person, but completely ineffective.

Carter would not let his staff help him and was a terrible delegator. He just tried to do everything himself, which is not possible.

I learned to actually like Ronald Reagan, even if I disagreed with him on basically everything. He was very well-intentioned, honest, and honorable. Nancy was not.