ESU Thanksgiving Lunch   Uppingham   28th November  2013
Thanksgiving  meaning. 
“ If it wasn’t for us you wouldn’t have a war at all. “
Qualifications were 20 odd cousins and a journalistic career
Served 5 British Ambassadors and 4 Presidents. 
My job in Information Dept. Projecting the UK  
Uphill struggle
Not many bricks to make straw,.  And a few dropped bricks.
Answering Phone calls.   Reprewsenting the Embassy: Olney and Atcheson Kansas pancake race. 
Mills Godwin 
  Fielding telephone calls : “Bitten by a bat”  Three Day Week; NATO, EC
White House Correspondents Club Dinner.  Meet the cabinet.  
Press Club bar gossip relayed about Gerald Ford as Vice President.
Ramsbotham’s meeting about the Royal Dinner and French disaster.  Sally Quinn and flattery by Ramsbotham.
Elizabeth Taylor and John Warner;  Eugene Power
Washington Old Hall 
Duke of Argyll’s lock of Washington’s hair
Lady Elwyn-Jones and the Calcutta ring
Louis Osman’s Box for the Bicentennial 
Sir George Catlin Shirley William’s  father’s idea of the triumphal arch 
Wilson’s tights
Eugene Power. 
Michael Brunson and I at the White House.  Cameras in the pot plants.
Ambassador’s bed in Washington. 
LOS ANGELES 
Prince Michael’s trousers. 
Margaret Thatcher & Dennis in |Salt Lake City.
ESU
800 guests pass through the house each month. 
Prince Michael’s trousers.  Princess Anne/ Princess Alexandra/ Lord Mayor of London, Mo Mowlem, Chris smith/ Duke of Edinburgh twice. 
Diplomats nowadays are not much more han head waiters who are allowed to sit down occasionally. 
