Political Leaders:
JFK…when he was still a Senator running for President
LBJ….when he was VP
Richard Nixon…at a book signing 5 years after he resigned from office
Jimmy Carter…while running for office
George HW Bush..when VP (I also had met his father CT US Senator Prescott Bush)
Bill Clinton AND Hillary Rodham…met them both while they were at Yale Law and not yet a couple…we worked on Joseph Lieberman’s first political campaign
George W Bush…while President, I met him when he spoke at Yale
Barack Obama….Met him when he was running for his second term as President
Trump, has the misfortune of ding business with him years ago
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David Ben Gurion
Golda Meir
Bibi Netanyahu
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HRH Prince Phillip and
HRH Queen Elizabeth II…they visited New Haven in July 1976 on the Royal Yacht for US Bicentennial and I was presented at a reception
Willy Brandt….when he was Mayor of West Berlin and came to New Haven in 1961-2 school year and visited my classroom…he later was Chancellor of West Germany
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Pope Paul VI….in a private audience (20 people) 1975, arranged by my father’s major business landlord who was a major contributor to the church
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Rav J B Soloveitchik
Rav Hutner
The Bostoner Rebbe in Brookline, MA
The Lubavitcher Rebbe
YY Halberstam..Klausenberger Rebbe…our family has supported Kiryat Sanz Laniado Hospital for three generations
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Supreme Court Justices:
Earl Warren
Abe Fortas
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Sandra Day O’Connor
Thurgood Marshall
The nature of politics and business connections let me meet many interesting people.
I had the author Erich Segal and inventor/architect Buckminster Fuller as professors at UPENN more than 45 years ago.