[Leica] Grateful for California Dead

[keith at wbalaw.com (Keith R. Wessel)]

Do you mean to say they had a pile of these

http://wesselphoto.com/political/mcgovern/boston/slides/40.75.75.html  ?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ted Grant" <tedgrant@shaw.ca>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 5:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Grateful for California Dead


> Emanuel Lowi said:
> > Leica, anyone? Or more obituaries?<<<
>
> On a light Leica note. :-)
>
> As I was one of the, if you'll pardon the expression, ;-) "One of the
> Official Photographers" to cover President Reagan's visit to Ottawa, the
> capital of Canada, it was a close encounter kind of thing. :-)
>
> And I'd like to add to the President thing that, "I took his picture,
> several of them as a matter of fact with 3 Leica's!"
> So there you go eh. :-)
>
> And we have a fine photograph in our family room of my son Scott, who was
> the Prime Minsiter's personal photographer, during a State visit to
> Washington, standing between President Reagan and Prime Minister Brian
> Mulroney, taken by the President's personal photog at the time. :-) One
> might say a bit of history hangs on the wall in this home.
>
> However, a side bar: :-)
>
> We all know the secret service guys guarding the President are armed to
the
> teeth at anytime and more so when he travels to another country.
>
> On this visit to Canada he was to enter the House of Commons where weapons
> of any kind are not allowed, PERIOD!  And the "Sergeant at Arms" controls
> this with an iron fist, no weapons means just that! And God help the
> security guy who thinks he can push the SofA out of the way.
>
> The limos pull under the rotunda at the Parliament Buildings,  security
guys
> make a run for the door bulges under jacket all over the place.. OOPS!
"You
> can't come in here with guns!"
>
> A few moments of concern and the security guys are back at the limo
leaving
> their array of guns on the seats under  the watchful eye of other security
> guys.
>
> I mean there were all kinds of hardware that came out from under jackets
and
> coats, it was quite amazing lying all over the back seats of their cars.
;-)
> And no we couldn't get at it for a picture. :-(
>
> However, this was Canada and no need for armed to the teeth cops in the
> Houses of Parliament. And of course it all worked out just fine. ;-)
>
> I thought given everyone appeared to be ragging the late Pres. maybe a
> little side story during a visit to our country might take the heat off
the
> conversation. ;-)
>
> And all done with Leica's. :-)
>
> ted
>
>
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