How many of you youngins remember Claytie saying this?
This was back in the days when Men were Men and Sheep were scared.
Yup. He was actually talking to his ranch hands down in Alpine and an AP reporter tagging along overhead him say it and reported it.
When it hit the papers we knew he was on his way back to Midland.
Claytie impressed me to no end back in 2003 right before I went back active duty...i was picking my wife up at the airport and he was on her flight from Houston..sat next to her actually...i hadn't seen him.in maybe 10 years and he called to me by name and asked how my dad was doing. Blew me away.
My wife asked me who he was and when I told her she was like "I'd have never guessed that he seemed like just a regular guy "
His summer ranch parties were legendary.