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Once during the 1976 Republican Convention in Kansas City I was sitting in the breakroom having some coffee and reading a newspaper...Mr. Brinkley and William F. Buckley entered. Mr. Brinkley gestured at me and told Mr. Buckley that I was a 'local' and knew of some good places they could go and have a bit of dinner and talk and that I could be trusted to not talk about it to others. He approached me and asked if I was busy. Mr. Buckley then said, "Well, of course he's busy David...he's reading the newspaper and having coffee." Mr. Brinkley laughed and told me to finish the article. To be sure, I did rather quickly...Then I took them both to an ancient downtown jazz establishment where they both asked that I join them at their table and have a bite to eat. I sat and listened to those two discuss everything from family, politics, fishing and their hotel acommodations for over an hour. Mr. Brinkley was not like a hard-core liberal of today in any sense. He was a very kind and thoughtful man who knew the world, told a good joke and believed in the 'Golden Rule'. I count myself very fortunate to have had a brief crossing of paths with him.