[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.

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Interesting.To have been a fly on the wall...

[elcid1970]

For nonstop boorishness by Not-So-Hotra, check out the 1986 unauthorized bio “His Way”. People caught reading it in public in New Jersey often got beaten up.