Farewell to Lou Dobbs, my dear friend

Farewell to my person Lou

Lou Dobbs was my friend. We had meal not agelong ago.

He’d softly been successful hospice recently. Radiation. Then came a cleanable measure of health. Then it returned.

Wife Debi: “He was precise private. But we couldn’t support up. We ran retired of time.”

The blimpish anchor’s vocation began successful Atlanta. When helium yet near his fashionable nightly TV quality amusement — I helped propulsion him to articulation our WABC-AM vigor family.

Debi: “He near america peacefully. Home with his household — daughter, daughter-in-law, 3 grandchildren. We were joined successful 1982. Both worked astatine CNN. We went retired each night. Lou was the emotion of my life.

“I don’t cognize what to do, oregon what I’m going to do. It’s a large woody to instrumentality attraction of. Haven’t adjacent thought astir immoderate memorial service.”

In 2009, aft helium near CNN, helium told me: “There was increasing constraint. Took a batch to locomotion away. The narration is measured successful 3 decades. Over the years they’ve changed. I’ve changed. The full world’s changed. But I understood this wouldn’t enactment for maine anymore. Issues existed that I felt aggravated about. Inability to explicit myself near maine defenseless against detractors. Not a bully feeling.”

After spending New Year’s astatine Mar-a-Lago, helium told me: “We’re watching the convulsion of the Democratic party. They’ve go aliens.”

If you request a lift

NEW YORK, NEW YORK: I’m connected Third Ave. betwixt 79 & 80. Italian edifice Due. A elder gent waddled over. Says: “I cognize you know Donald. I besides cognize him. So however agelong you cognize him?” I said, “50 years.” He said, “I cognize him 70 years. I was an elevator operator. I worked for them all.” He had a bully array truthful they must’ve paid well. Me: “You voting for him?” Answer: “Absolutely!”

Pray for Connie

JOHN Cohan long lived 1 Brooklyn artifact from Connie Stevens. Even arsenic a 1962 teen idol — astir apt backmost erstwhile she sang for Thomas Jefferson — she maintained that Gates Ave place. In 1962, connected circuit with her movie “Susan Slade,” she and co-star Troy Donahue bunked there. Connie, astir 86, is successful an LA nursing home. In need. Psychic Cohan, her friend, asks that prayers instrumentality halfway stage.

Focus connected China

KENNEDY lensman Jacques Lowe taught p.r. man Jesse Ventura two things: admit a infinitesimal and light. Result? Ventura is having a photograph amusement connected China, Aug. 7, astatine a assemblage successful the Hamptons. China indispensable cognize thing we don’t. He’s photographed its men aged 111, and women aged 113.

Talk of the town

MESSAGES retired of the White House men’s country and flowing from his encephalon trust: junkie Hunter and wife Jill: Biden withdraws. August he’ll telephone for an “open” Democratic convention. He’ll enactment successful bureau until January. Endorses Kamala. Rumors rumor that Democrat historian Jon Meacham is crafting his address. And Kamala, favored adjacent beneath Biden, is already vetting imaginable moving mates.

REMEMBER: Money isn’t everything. Just works erstwhile you’ve mislaid your recognition cards.

Only successful New York, kids, Only successful New York.