Edit: George Hansen’s High-Wire Act

Former Congressman George V. Hansen used up all his nine political lives and, given the chance, he would have burned through one or two more. He was capable of charming and embarrassing the same people — which he did for the better part of two decades. By the time he died Thursday at age 83, he’d been off the public stage longer than he’d been on it — and anyone younger than 50 couldn’t tell you what all the fanfare was about. What it was about, of course, was one of the most gifted — and flawed — politicians ever to climb out of the back roads of eastern Idaho. As a pitchman, he had no equal. Anyone who watched Hansen work his magic during a campaign would have to concede that Idaho’s best politicians — former Gov. Cecil Andrus or the current occupant of that office, C.L. (Butch) Otter — could no more than match him and then only on their best days/ Marty Trillhaase , Lewiston Tribune. More here .

Question: Did anyone out there meet George Hansen?