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time rival, VicePresident Hubert Humphrey, who would lose to Richard Nixon. The Vietnam War went on for seven more years.
I finally got to know Gene as a friend and Rappahannock neighbor when my wife Joan and I opened the Old Sperryville Bookshop. Gene would come to the shop, get a cup of coffee, and sit down to tell me his political stories and try out his latest one-liners on the political scene. He was a great storyteller, never at a loss for an anecdote or a joke. His many books were best-sellers at the shop, and he packed the house one evening when he came to tell his stories and read his poetry.
He had touched the heights in national politics, but came to earth in Rappahannock County, oddly in the way that I feel I did as well. This was a solid place to land, with feet firmly planted on ground that seemed less shifty than in Washington, D.C. He found comfort here, and friends.
James P. Gannon
Blackwater Publications
Castleton
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