He said, I want to do cartoons. I don’t wanna learn cartooning. But what he did is he got into a writing pro journalism program and he went to sea. He didn’t, his father didn’t want him to go to sea. And he went on a oil tanker and as… Read More
He, he did a good job of it. And so that was another, another connection with the Senate and government that played out in ways that you don’t see. And oh, we had, one of the Kennedy kids volunteered in the reptile house and he wanted to be the curator. Read More
And those were, were all management problems that chip we had to deal with. Read More
And what happened is he got into, he told me that he, I asked him, well, what do you want to do?… Read More
The other thing he did in the, I found out after I started asking around the other interns is he would go in in the dorm. The kid kid had been in his room at night and somebody knock on the door and he’d listen. Then he’d hear something collapse… Read More
He said, I just thought it’d be funny. He said, she’s always driving around having fun in that Jeep and everything. I won’t do it again. You know. So it passed and then a couple more weeks passed and I had a, a intern that was working for me. Her… Read More
And the aide was looking out for Moynihan’s son, you know, trying to get him a job that would be interesting and everything. So we got him on a research project and oh, a few weeks into it we had a young lady that was out doing Bluebird Nest boxes… Read More
And one Monday morning we came in and there were wanted posters on all the doors of the major buildings where we had personnel and we had these sketches that were accurate sketches of Larry Collins, luckless Larry and Wiley Wemmer. And there was a picture of me, my face… Read More
He says, I’ll pay for it. He says, you take ’em on and get ’em out there. So anyway, so John Moynihan Jr. Came out, or Patrick Dan or John, John Moynihan, the son of Daniel Patrick came out and he was this kind of tall, skinny kid. And I… Read More
And I said, well who’s gonna pay for it?… Read More
I mean they get, they’re all flexing their pecs at the end of the summer, you know, acting like Charles Atlas. And I said, if he’s a real skinny kid, I, he might not be able to cut it. He says, I don’t care. He says, take ’em on. Read More
I said, you see those kids developing in the course of three months in the summer?… Read More
And I said, okay, thanks. The problem went away. It didn’t go any farther than that, but that kind of shows you how things work. Now another story like that was Ted Reed called, this was early on in my career there, this is probably back in the seventies, Ted… Read More
And I said, what’s your, what’s your college major?… Read More
And it had nothing to do with biology at all. And I said, well, I said, we have a lot of people who have an education like yours, but they come out and they volunteer and they can be volunteer keepers or they can be volunteers on animal projects, you… Read More
And I, with a straight face, I had to tell ’em that it wasn’t true, but that they could create metabolic water by metabolizing fat. You know? But this is the kind of thing that I remember, I was astounded at the time that he asked that question. I thought… Read More
I said, we do have internships and you could apply for an internship. Read More
She said, Congressman so-and-so called, or his aide called, his name is such and such. And he said, you, you told his daughter to F off. And she said, I told him he doesn’t talk that way. I don’t believe it. So she stood up for me. And so I… Read More
So they got in there and one of them asked me, he said, is it true that they store water in their humps?… Read More
You know, if they wanna come out, you make an arrangement. So that was a Saturday I was gonna have to work. And these guys came out, I don’t know who they were, they were young guys and they had these aides, these cuties that were their aids. And they… Read More