In your book about al gore and the gridiron dinner. What was it . In the last year of the clinton presidency, bill clinton, the president , decided he would bag the gridiron dinner, where the president usually goes to speak. And he didnt like it much. It was the second time he didnt. And taking his place was al gore. I got a phone call just a few days before the dinner, wondering if id help in Vice President gores speech. I got a call from my friend, bob shrum, who was a media guy for gore. And what they wanted me to do was have a phony interview with him, where i would ask all kinds of questions not with him, but with president bush and they would have president bush saying general. Now, that was a little piece of tape that they got from an interview that george w. Bush had done earlier with a smart aleck guy up in massachusetts, who had asked him, do you know the name of the president of pakistan, general musharraf. And poor bush said, general, and he couldnt think of his name. So, t
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Gundula Hinze McCandless, the light of her family, passed away Apr. 18, but she will live on in the hearts of her loved ones. Gundi was born to Otto and Gertrude Hinze in 1931 and grew up in Gardelegen, East Germany. She graduated from nursing school in Dessau. With some difficulty, she managed to escape to West Germany and was employed at a hospital in Hamburg.
She joined an adventurous group of German nurses and came to Galveston to work at the John Sealy Hospital. There she worked in a Pediatric ward caring for burn children. During this time, she met and subsequently married a medical student, Bob McCandless. The ensuing years were spent in Iowa City while her husband completed an internship and radiology residency. They were blessed with three beautiful daughters; Edda, Tracy, and Claire.