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. It's just plain good common sense. 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. Their nonprofit Christian ministry has built more than 100,000 homes in 76 nations.