It was just hotel chitchat, the kind that happens when a bigwig swoops into Dallas and the mayor and business leaders flock to his reception. They shook hands, swilled bottled water and bantered about goals. In this case, the honoree was a tall, lanky fellow with a Jed Clampett drawl and enthusiasm so contagious that the world s poor and the world s rich, and a lot of people in between, champion his cause. U.S. presidents pound nails for him. Celebrities paint walls.
Corporations flex their bank accounts.
He even stirs Republicans and Democrats to work together without a hint of political strife. Even so, it s not Millard Fuller s name, but that of his organization that the public recognizes. Ga. Then he laughed and shook another hand. So you re a hard-working civil engineer who s about to take an extended vacation. Well, if you re John Bosshart, you and dozens of other volunteers from First Presbyterian Church of Fort Worth go build a 1,100 square-foot Habitat For Humanity home for a Fort Worth woman and her granddaughter.