What is the highest ranking US official who you've met?

[Indy Coug]

Reagan, father and son Bush, Quayle, Clarence Thomas, Ted Kennedy, and C. Everett Koop.

Those are the first that come to mind. I know there are more.

How?

[Uncle Ted]

I use to be on a committee for Gov. Mike Leavitt and got to sleep at the governor's mansion once. Gov. Leavitt said I slept in the same bed that the Dalai Lama slept in so I have that going for me... which is nice.

[Shaka]

How?

It's common knowledge that I, like most people from Murray Utah, lived a life of refinement and privilege. I summered at Lake Powell and wintered at Alta/Snowbird. My luxurious lifestyle was peppered with opportunities to rub shoulders with the powerful elite.

I met Reagan a few times. The first was as a teenager at his campaign stop in Utah. Another time I met him at the White House. Bush '41 same type of situation. I met VP Quayle when I was getting a private tour of the Senate floor. Hung out in his nearby office and even sat in his chair.

Ted Kennedy is a close friend of an uncle. I met him at my grandmother's funeral. During his talk my uncle talked about Ted and how they were like brothers. After I fulfilled my pallbearer duties by placing grandma in the hearse I turned around, made my face look like I'd swallowed a lemon, and asked Ted if he was my uncles brother did that also make him my uncle? Laughter ensued, the mood lightened, and hearts were warmed. I also met his wife who in my opinion is a peach.

I met C. Everett at my grandparents home. I've met Thomas a couple of times I believe one of them as also at my grandparents home.

[byu71]

It's common knowledge that I, like most people from Murray Utah, lived a life of refinement and privilege. I summered at Lake Powell and wintered at Alta/Snowbird. My luxurious lifestyle was peppered with opportunities to rub shoulders with the powerful elite.

I met Reagan a few times. The first was as a teenager at his campaign stop in Utah. Another time I met him at the White House. Bush '41 same type of situation. I met VP Quayle when I was getting a private tour of the Senate floor. Hung out in his nearby office and even sat in his chair.

Ted Kennedy is a close friend of an uncle. I met him at my grandmother's funeral. During his talk my uncle talked about Ted and how they were like brothers. After I fulfilled my pallbearer duties by placing grandma in the hearse I turned around, made my face look like I'd swallowed a lemon, and asked Ted if he was my uncles brother did that also make him my uncle? Laughter ensued, the mood lightened, and hearts were warmed. I also met his wife who in my opinion is a peach.

I met C. Everett at my grandparents home. I've met Thomas a couple of times I believe one of them as also at my grandparents home.

Can you get me into church headquarters to discuss their 401K plan?

[Shaka]

Can you get me into church headquarters to discuss their 401K plan?

Surely the pittance made by state workers would not be worth your valuable time.

Let them eat cake.

[Sullyute]

Mike Leavitt and I rode up an elevator together a few months ago. Neither one of us acknowledged knowing who the other was.

That got a hearty chuckle out of me.

[byu71]

Surely the pittance made by state workers would not be worth your valuable time.

Let them eat cake.

Of course I was kidding, but the state retirement plan is probably beyond enormous. I would also guess the churches 401K, it is actually, probably a 403b, is also enormous.

[falafel]

I did an internship in Governor Leavitt's office the year before law school. I got to sit in their staff meetings each week. The Guv would always drink a diet dr. pepper and eat a bag of microwave popcorn.

[Shaka]

Of course I was kidding, but the state retirement plan is probably beyond enormous. I would also guess the churches 401K, it is actually, probably a 403b, is also enormous.

I know, so was I.

My dad held both the church and state accounts. If he were alive he could have got you in.

[PaloAltoCougar]

Oh, and I tended bar, serving drinks to Tip O'Neill, Carl Albert and multiple Senators and Congressmen, chatting them up the whole time.

[U-Ute]

Former Senator Jake Garn was at the funeral of one of my wife's relatives.

Senator Orrin Hatch was at my grandmother's funeral.

Yes, someone's gotta die for me to get anything around here...

[Shaka]

Senator Orrin Hatch was at my grandmother's funeral.
.

That's cool, he was at my grandma's as well.

[venkman]

I've met Utah Gov's: Bangerter, Huntsman, Herbert. When I was growing up, my dad was Orrin's mother's home teacher. That's all I got.

[byu71]

That's cool, he was at my grandma's as well.

Boyd K. Packer spoke at my grandmother's funeral and President GBH spoke at my Uncle's funeral. He was sister Hinckley's physician.

[byu71]

That's cool, he was at my grandma's as well.

Boyd K. Packer spoke at my grandmother's funeral and President GBH spoke at my Uncle's funeral. He was sister Hinckley's physician. That Uncle also got the only hit off of Sachel Page when they were touring Utah and played the Brigham City Peaches.