even while running for office. She quotes from an otherwise unattested letter of November 22, 1963, addressed to "Dearest family," which begins Wednesday I took Doris Ulmer out for lunch. They were here from England and they had been so nice to George in Greece. ... I am writing this at the Beauty Parlor and the radio says that the President has been shot. ... Poppy [G.H.W. Bush's nickname] picked me up at the beauty parlor—we went right to the airport, flew to Ft. Worth and dropped Mr. Zeppo off (we were on his plane) and flew back to Dallas. "Mr. Zeppo" was Joe Zeppa, protégé of the Rockefeller family and owner of the hotel in which Bush made his campaign speech that day. When his son Keating was told that the plane bypassed Dallas's downtown Love Field, dropped Zeppa off at Fort Worth's municipal airport, and then backtracked to Dallas, [he] said that was not something that his father ordinarily would have done.This and other documentary evidence is adduced by Baker (op. cit.) in an attempt to account for why G.H.W. Bush, perhaps alone among all Americans alive at the time, always said he could not remember where he was on the day of the Kennedy assassination. "In 1994, three decades after Poppy began not remembering where he was on November 22, 1963, it was suddenly Barbara who remembered." (Op. cit. p. 52.) Awards Intelligence Medal of Merit Bibliography Notes References https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/01/world/alfred-c-ulmer-jr-83-officer-in-us-intelligence-agencies.html https://web.archive.org/web/20070624113719/http://webscript.princeton.edu/~paw/memorials/memdisplay.php?id=6779 https://books.google.com/books?id=VAbkogswOmEC&pg=PA59 1916 births Princeton University alumni People of the Central Intelligence Agency 2000 deaths Recipients of the Intelligence Medal of Merit United States Navy personnel of World War II Military personnel from Florida People from Jacksonville, Florida