a). United States Supreme Court Justice Harold Burton. I met then US Sen. Burton at my grandfather’s house where he was a guest. While there he received a call from the Truman White House informing him that he was being appointed to the Supreme Court. (Yes, Democratic president did appoint a Republican candidate for the Supreme Court!) That September he was confirmed. (He was in the Supreme Court 13 years. ironically Potter Stewart was his successor).

b). United States Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart. Granddad Coppock had Potter and his father James Stewart visit the Hills of Judea to fish and to meet his Princeton graduate grandson. Potter encouraged me to look at your law school, where his brother was a professor. Met him only twice in Washington DC.

c). Ohio Gov. Mike DiSalles. The Versaille's Poultry Days, is one of the most attended events in the county. It occurs in early July. They celebrate chicken and eggs. Guest speaker was Democrat, Ohio governor Mike DiSalles. Dad , Democratic County chairman ,introduced him. I sat on the front row. On the stage was the queen of the event, "Miss Chick". At the end of the proceedings the governor asked me to come up on the stage and introduced me to "Miss Chick). Her name was Judy Reeser, very beautiful lovely farm girl. I needed her most of the summer.

Wellington Koo

d). The China Affair. Wellington Koo. (Grandfather Brumbaugh and his brother Congressman Clement Brumbaugh in 1919 visited the Philippines because of Clements key role in creating Philippine independence. We think that they went to China and met Sun Yat-sen, the founder of the Chinese revolution. Sun Yat-sen had lost his leadership position but was over internal affairs him; matters such as highways bridges and roads. Congressman Clement Brumbaugh had the same role on a committee chairman in the United States Congress. For some reason dad always kept track of the Chinese. It is for this reason I believe the following quite an incredible event, at least for Greenville, occurred.) Wellington Koo, was the most prominent Chinese pre-communist ambassador. His absolutely incredible bio is a must read. He helped found the league of Nations. He was China’s ambassador to the United States and Chinese ambassador at the beginning of the United Nations. He was the first person to sign United Nations charter. How my father ever got him to come to Greenville I will never know. Once again I sat in the front row as dad made the opening speech. The beautiful Memorial Hall was filled, 300+. He pleaded for the United States to back Kuomintang party and stop the communist from taking over mainland China. He stated granddad’s house. I shook his hand. This was 1949, July or August. In September the Kuomintang were expelled from China by Mao ‘s communist army.. I asked my father why did he ever come to Greenville to plead for his country. Never got a good answer other than no one else would listen to him. (Irony that he graduated from Columbia, and was the impetus for the being interested in Japan China relations when I wrote my Princeton thesis). More information about Wellington Koo

e). The Last Convention. Dad was a delegate to the 1952 presidential convention. (It was the last convention in which there was true Democratic choices and debates. Now everything is decided before the convention and there are no debates.) I was at Culver summer school. There were 12 candidates. The top favorites were Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois, and Sen. Robert Kerr of Oklahoma. As I watched on television , dad said “I vote one vote for Sen. Robert Kerr.” When I got home I asked dad why. He said for the first round of voting the Ohio delegation committee told the delegates how to vote. So many for one candidate so many for another candidate. He was selected to vote for Sen. Kerr. After the first round delegates were free to vote as they chose. (Notes of interest : Sen. Kerr was a millionaire oilman and kept in contact with dad over the years. Adlai Stephenson Hardin the nephew of Adlai Stevenson was my close and dear friend all through Princeton and Columbia Law school.. A candidate who dropped out early, Sen. William Fulbright of Arkansas, was a neighbor of a good friend in Washington. I got to know him rather well. He was one of the few Democratic senators that proposed Lyndon Johnson regarding the Vietnam war.)