14-06-2009, 03:27 AM
[quote=Dixie Dea][quote=Dixie Dea]My REmarkable Jpourney
But he ended up winning $6,000. that day. He paid his child support for the next year, his rent for a year and stocked his refrigerator and bought 20 cartons of cigarettes.. He was so excited that he even tipped the racetrack valet fifty dollars.
Eventually, a friend in Louisiana needed a race tract publicist and gave him the job..where he stayed for a little ever a year. During that time the Watergate scandal broke, and that same bald, pudgy guy, John Mitchell was right in the middle of it. Then the race track was sold and he lost his job,. So he decided to head for California, to try his luck. But first, he went back to Florida to visit his daughter and his mother. While there, he had a phone call from Joe Abernathy, who was the new general manager of Station WIOD. Joe told him that he knew about his past work and had also read about what had happened with him. He couldn't understand why WIOD had let him go. So he ask Larry if he would consider coming back. ..and of course he wanted to.
Larry says that looking back, He can be grateful for everything that happened. and....."Some times you have to go down before you can go up."
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(Sidenote)
(1) Abe Fortas, had represented Lymdon Johnson in 1948, during his slim margin of victory in the Texas Democratic primary. Jonson got his Senate seat because of Fortas and Fortas became one of his most trusted advisors. Years later, when Johnson became President. Johnson 3wanted Fortas to become Justice of the Supreme Court. There wa s only one problem. There was one problem...Fortas was Jewish. Back then, it was an unwritten rule, that you couldn't have two Jews on the Supreme Court. So Johnson asked Arthur Goldberg to leave the court. He gave Goldberg an appointment as representative to the UN-just to get Fortas to the Supreme Court. Goldberg didn't have to leave, but Johnson told him that he really needed him at the UN....which Larry says was bullshit. A hundred other guys couldn't have been name UN ambassador. Goldberg gave up hi s position just so Johnson could put Fortas on the Supreme Court.
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But he ended up winning $6,000. that day. He paid his child support for the next year, his rent for a year and stocked his refrigerator and bought 20 cartons of cigarettes.. He was so excited that he even tipped the racetrack valet fifty dollars.
Eventually, a friend in Louisiana needed a race tract publicist and gave him the job..where he stayed for a little ever a year. During that time the Watergate scandal broke, and that same bald, pudgy guy, John Mitchell was right in the middle of it. Then the race track was sold and he lost his job,. So he decided to head for California, to try his luck. But first, he went back to Florida to visit his daughter and his mother. While there, he had a phone call from Joe Abernathy, who was the new general manager of Station WIOD. Joe told him that he knew about his past work and had also read about what had happened with him. He couldn't understand why WIOD had let him go. So he ask Larry if he would consider coming back. ..and of course he wanted to.
Larry says that looking back, He can be grateful for everything that happened. and....."Some times you have to go down before you can go up."
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(Sidenote)
(1) Abe Fortas, had represented Lymdon Johnson in 1948, during his slim margin of victory in the Texas Democratic primary. Jonson got his Senate seat because of Fortas and Fortas became one of his most trusted advisors. Years later, when Johnson became President. Johnson 3wanted Fortas to become Justice of the Supreme Court. There wa s only one problem. There was one problem...Fortas was Jewish. Back then, it was an unwritten rule, that you couldn't have two Jews on the Supreme Court. So Johnson asked Arthur Goldberg to leave the court. He gave Goldberg an appointment as representative to the UN-just to get Fortas to the Supreme Court. Goldberg didn't have to leave, but Johnson told him that he really needed him at the UN....which Larry says was bullshit. A hundred other guys couldn't have been name UN ambassador. Goldberg gave up hi s position just so Johnson could put Fortas on the Supreme Court.
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