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Last week, on the entreaties of three Senators and 34 Congressmen, all from the South-but none from Alabama-President Johnson gave a full pardon to Boykin. He is now 80, and after all those lovin' years has an ailing heart...
...Frank Boykin proclaimed indefatigably, "everything's made for love." And during his 28 years as U.S. Representative from Alabama, omnia vicit amor. Wrapped perennially in a white linen suit, his huge (250 lbs.) frame topped by a theatrical thatch of silver hair, he looked like a cartoonist's Claghorn-and spent money like a Dixie Gatsby. At one celebrated Boykinalia in 1949, nearly every VIP in Washington came to Frank's house to sample a potpourri from his favorite huntin' and fishin' spots. There was salmon from Quebec, pheasant from the Dakotas, antelope from Wyoming...
...voters' love for Boykin ran out in the 1962 Democratic primary. Five months after his defeat, he was charged with accepting a bribe in an attempt, as a Congressman, to persuade the Justice Department to go easy on a convicted savings-and-loan swindler.*He was found guilty, given a $40,000 fine and a six-month jail sentence, which was suspended because...
Some Administration political aides were also annoyed by the fact that Bobby recently testified-voluntarily-against two former Democratic Representatives, Maryland's Thomas F. Johnson and Alabama's Frank Boykin. The two were charged with accepting money for using influence in an attempt to persuade the Justice Department-including Bobby himself-to let a convicted land swindler off easy. Bobby insists that his testimony against the pair was necessary; his critics say that it was not and only managed to increase tensions between Capitol Hill and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue...
...brotherly love is wearing a bit thin in Alabama these days. And among the nine Congressmen running for eight seats, Boykin was both the oldest and the richest; many Alabamans apparently figured that he was the one who could most afford to retire to private life. In 14 past elections, folks had remembered the ebullient fellow who had hauled water for construction gangs at eight, become a business success at 16, a near millionaire at 21. But now Boykin's was simply a case of love's labor's lost...