Tom Clancy was the guest of honor at Wednesday night’s Foundation Fighting Blindness dinner, and the best-selling author delivered an … interesting speech to the crowd.
Addressing several hundred guests, including a dozen members of Congress and small fleet of well-behaved seeing-eye dogs, Clancy veered into unintelligible territory a few times. A major donor to the foundation, which funds research toward cures and treatments for retinal diseases, Clancy called his support “a good thing to do with my money” but praised the “docs who do the real work.”
“I can write books,” he said. “Lots of people write books. I can’t operate on a child’s head…I can’t fix eyeballs.” The writer added that eye researchers and doctors are exploring new frontiers, “like Daniel Boone, or Lewis and Clark.”
Clancy wrapped his nine-minute remarks thusly: “Thanks for the award. [Inaudible] I’ve got a spot on the wall for it.”
