I saw Gore twice: once as a boy on Miami Beach when Nelson Rockefeller was campaigning on Collins and 71st Street Beach. Nelson pressed the flesh even of a small boy, and I looked up into a face of a man with a complexion like a Moray eel. Gore stood at a distance scowling and taking notes. The second time, I was in my teens, already reading his books. It was on the Phil Donahue Show and my grandmother, Betty Batista, had tickets to the television audience. Gore's father used to come down to the Beach during the winter. Once, his father met my great-uncle, former Cuban dictator, Fulgencio Batista. Gore Vidal changed my life.
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I saw Gore twice: once as a boy on Miami Beach when Nelson Rockefeller was campaigning on Collins and 71st Street Beach. Nelson pressed the flesh even of a small boy, and I looked up into a face of a man with a complexion like a Moray eel. Gore stood at a distance scowling and taking notes. The second time, I was in my teens, already reading his books. It was on the Phil Donahue Show and my grandmother, Betty Batista, had tickets to the television audience. Gore's father used to come down to the Beach during the winter. Once, his father met my great-uncle, former Cuban dictator, Fulgencio Batista. Gore Vidal changed my life.
me too. thanks gore.
Read "Palimpsest" - what a life G.V. had!