Last night’s Al Smith Dinner was a special thrill for me. I remember so clearly 1960 when I was a 10 year old boy in Missouri, and seeing John Kennedy and Richard Nixon on the Huntley-Brinkley Report joining my predecessor, Francis Cardinal Spellman, at that year’s Smith Dinner. I never dreamed that one day I’d be hosting the Smith Dinner, and that I would have the privilege of being with our honored guest speaker Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, his lovely wife Deborah, and so many other…