[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Partly right and the snubbing by the kennedys at the 1960 convention because of supposed mod ties.My FIL was his lawyer back in those days and told me they were both republicans from there on out.My FIL was also good friens with RR. The connection was obviously the movie industry.

[Huskrrrr]

Interesting. My grandfather knew Reagan too, back during his days in Des Moines, Ia while a sports announcer at WHO. They ate lunch together at the local diner. Grandpa had a radio repair business near WHO.

[Erasmus]

My father was an FDR New Deal Democrat, having grown up in the Depression and having been a member of the CCC. He was also sentimentally a Stevenson man right up through the Demo convention of 1960. He didn't live to see the JFK election though.

About that time, Dad mentioned an incident involving Sinatra that soured him on the guy. It may have taken place during the convention; I don't recall exactly.

Old Sam Rayburn was speaker of the House and LBJ's political mentor. He approached Sinatra in his customary glad-hander way, and reportedly Sinatra rudely brushed him off. Dad said that Sinatra had said "Get your filthy hands off me," or something presumably to that effect.