Myers Re-gayles Us With A Great Story
June 29, 2006 at 2:07 pm
The Hill’s Jeff Dufour has former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers recalling this moment with Chicago Bears great Gayle Sayers, who was on a USO tour in Vietnam …
… as their plane was catapulted off an aircraft carrier in rough seas.
Sayers, clearly nervous about the whole thing, looked to Myers for reassurance, which he gave despite his own nerves. “Not that I knew it was OK,” Myers explained. “I just didn’t want him to die all tensed up.”
Richard Myers said,
June 29, 2006 @ 2:25 pm
SHOT . . .
“It is a natural presumption for me to compare every girl I meet here in D.C. to a Southern girl” — Washington Times intern Joshua Rutledge (blog, 6/28).
. . . CHASER
“Sen. Burr, they don’t have beaver like this down in North Carolina” — Tom DeLay (Roll Call, 6/29).