Jim and college friends discuss African politics with Assistant U.S. Secretary of State and former Governor G. Mennen Williams (D-MI), 1963

Jim explores a legislative proposal with State Senator and former Congressman Clifton Young (R-NV), Carson City, Nevada, September, 1972

Jim, Bob Long, and C. Clifton Young present environmental study to Nevada's Republican Governor (and later U.S. Senator) Paul Laxalt, c. 1972

Jim (with beard) with Governor William Milliken (R-MI) as he signs major health legislation, 1976

Jim is received in audience with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Seaside, Oregon, November, 1984

Jim is greeted by Barbara Bush at the Vice President's House, 1987

Jim with U.S. Representative (D-CA) and future White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta, Washington, D.C., 1987

Panetta is now Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, 2009-Current.

Jim congratulates former U.S. Senator Claude Pepper (D-FL) on his 88th birthday, Rayburn Office Building, Washington, D.C., September 8, 1988

Jim with U.S. Senator Charles McC. Mathias (R-MD)

Jim meets with actress Patty Duke and U.S. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell (D-ME)

Jim dines with President Jimmy Carter, The Carter Center, Atlanta, Georgia, c. 1993

Jim with Rosalynn Carter at The Carter Center, Atlanta, Georgia, c. 1993

Jim with Congressman and Mrs. Ed Roybal (D-CA), as they depart for Puerto Rico, 1993

Jim and Attorney General Elliott Richardson

Jim discusses Henry Kissinger's memoirs with the former U.S. Secretary of State, c. 1994

Jim and Bill Clinton in a conversation at the White House, 1993