2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Count Down [View all]DFW
(54,268 posts)My dad and RFK were friends. Joe and Bobby, Jr. were classmates of mine for a while, and my dad used to take me up to Bobby's Senate office all the time. I was going to school in DC, and used to take the bus downtown and go with my dad up to the Capitol when he had people to see. He had to know ALL Senators and Reps from all Great Lakes states, so I met most of those guys. Since my dad's paper was in a small town on the St. Lawrence Seaway, he was in contact with the Senators from NY and the Reps from northern NY State all the time. I used to flirt (right, at age 15 and 16) with one of his receptionists, a beauty named Brandi, and when she confessed to me she was getting married, I wailed that she should have let me complete my puberty before deciding not to give me chance. In those days, you just walked into the Capitol or Senate Office Buildings and walked in to the office you wanted to go to. It was a VERY different time.