Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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NEWSMEN at the National Airport were surprised to see the President gripping a small boy's shoulder as he asked: "Aren't you supposed to be in school...
Most surprised of all was TIME's White House Correspondent John L. Steele, for the boy was his nine-year-old son Larry (John L. Jr.). Larry, tagging after his father, has been looking at Presidents for years. As a wide-eyed infant he watched Harry Truman's triumphal return to Washington after his 1948 election victory, and got so excited he dropped a toy from the balcony of the Senate Office Building almost into Truman's lap. But last week was the first time he ever talked to a President...
When Larry's father asked him to repeat his conversation with President Eisenhower, the boy said stiffly that he considered it "private and off the record." But after a little fatherly persuasion Larry explained that he told the President he had a note from his mother to Mrs. Frances Berard, fourth-grade teacher at John Eaton School, asking that he be excused for tardiness on this special occasion. That seemed to satisfy the President. He released the boy, grinned and said goodbye before he walked away...
...16th District Democratic Club, and Robert Wagner became an eager, active member. To get an education he took on any and all odd jobs, while his own father contributed from a janitor's small wages and an Uncle August walked to work to add carfare savings to the boy's future. Such thrift and industry put Robert Wagner through the City College of New York, and seven years later Tammany Hall sent him to the state assembly. Within four years he was a rising Tammany star in the state senate...
Just Two Left. At six, he earned his first dollar as a page boy in the state senate, where his father already was writing a record of social legislation that later served as model for the New Deal. With his father, the boy visited Woodrow Wilson's summer White House at Shadow Lawn, N.J., went on political outings to a Long Island inn near the Good Ground estate of Tammany Boss Charles F. Murphy, rode ponyback on Governor Al Smith's Great Dane, Caesar...