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What convictions Ethel held, she held with a fierce tenacity that drove her into any verbal fray, often oblivious of the consequences. Veteran New Frontiersmen remember with mixed amusement and embarrassment that she was the champion asker of gauche questions at the Hickory Hill seminars where Bobby brought his people together with leading intellectuals. Once, seated next to Chief Justice Earl Warren on a plane trip, Ethel launched into a long harangue about the school-prayer issue that was then before the Supreme Court, forgetting that Justices never discuss their current cases. While Warren sat in discomfited silence, Ethel bore...
Mixed Quality. Criticism of the board seems to increase with the arrival of each new "Administration. In 1961, because the incoming Kennedy Administration feared that the Federal Reserve might not go along with plans to stimulate the then-sluggish economy, some New Frontiersmen spread the fiction that it was a "tradition" for the Federal Reserve chairman to offer to resign. Martin never took the hint. Today's Federal Reserve governors are mostly Democratic appointees and, for the first time in many years, the board stands to the left of the Administration. But President Nixon has pointedly asked Martin...
...Some New Frontiersmen were angered that O'Brien alone remained in the Johnson Administration after the others had departed. But none of them has held the grudge, particularly since O'Brien joined Robert Kennedy's staff last spring. A hotelkeeper's son from Springfield, Mass., O'Brien acquired his taste for Democratic politics as a boy orator campaigning for James Michael Curley, the four-term mayor of Boston. His early tactical work for former Governor Foster Furcolo and then for John Kennedy formed the rich expertise that was later embodied in the "O'Brien...
...split the dissidents and thus aid Humphrey's cause. On the other hand, it may actually strengthen the anti-Administration forces by engaging many presently inactive Kennedy supporters and bringing their added pressure to bear against the Vice President. Almost as soon as Mc Govern announced, old New Frontiersmen Pierre Salinger and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. endorsed him. Salinger and former R.F.K. Press Secretary Frank Mankiewicz are expected to join his staff...
From the amalgam of Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees and hardbitten white frontiersmen who settled it, Oklahoma somehow evolved as a state that was not distinctively Western, Southern or Eastern but marked by a conglomerate sectionalism all its own. Today its cultural patterns are Eastern, its outdoor way of life Western, and its political style distinctly Southern...