The Machine

[H2O Man]

6. Thanks!

It was fifty years ago -- plus a few months -- that I first encountered Oren. We were on opposite sides of an issue that night ...... he was in the corner of the great boxing champion Carmen Basilio's last fighter, who went on to be a good heavyweight. But that night, on an amateur card, he was fighting my brother-in-law. I was working his corner.

A few years later, Oren and I became friends. We had a lot in common, and worked together. We were able to do that, despite having been on opposite sides in the past. I could be wrong, as I so often am, but I think there's a lesson in there someone. I remember when Oren's good friend, Senator Daniel Inouye said he wanted Oren to be the Secretary of State in a Democratic Party administration. I suspect there might be potential advantages found in having our party return to that type of thinking in the next few years. Again, I might well be wrong. It may be that hating those who we agree on most things, but disagree with on something in the ring, is the answer. We should all think about such choices.