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denwego wrote:That reminds me of when I was in college in 2005 at Baylor, when Waco's proximity to Crawford made for some crazy situations with W Bush's security at times.

It was pretty common to have him fly in and out of town, obviously, but that spring Baylor was hosting some sort of symposium or summit with Bush, Vincente Fox (then President of Mexico) and Paul Martin (then Prime Minister of Canada), on the campus of Baylor itself. It's one thing to have the president drive at a brisk pace between Crawford and Waco's airport...it was a HUGE different thing when the collective leadership of most of North America was sitting down for lunch and a talk in the same building I was doing some research in!

Sic 'em, Bears! I was at Baylor then too. As the photo editor of The Lariat, I was in the SUB (Student Union Building) when the three of them had a Q&A for the media. Pretty cool to be in the same room with all three of them. We had to show up pretty early and submit our camera equipment for inspection. I think we got wanded (not frisked), and they checked out the camera bags both by hand and with dogs. In fact, somewhere I may still have the picture of the inside of my lens cap taken by a SS agent to make sure my camera was really a camera. I'm pretty sure the press pass had my name on it so I imagine they ran a background check beforehand as well. A girl on my hall in South Russell was from Canada and got to have tea or something like that with Paul Martin. Another time when I was interning for the local paper, Bush flew into TSTC to get on a helicopter out to his ranch. I found out that whenever he does that, the local press all has to go out and keep the cameras ready from the time Air Force One is in sight to the time the helicopter is out of sight just in case anything noteworthy happens. It was both really cool and incredibly boring.