Word: clubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...office. He offered Johnson impossible terms for reconciliation (see box). Through an old friend, Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, Kennedy told the White House of his final decision to run. On Friday, Kennedy took a brief recess, flew to Long Island to serve as official fall guy at a club luncheon. Kennedy took the ribbing, managed to ignore a belly dancer's gyrations while studying his notes...
...saved up this money so that someday we can give the club a new building," Robert W. Laird '52 said last night. "It's entirely separate from the club's expenses. They're supposed to take care of themselves...
...want the club to keep going," another Alumni member said, "but we're just not willing to bite into capital...
Alumni contributors also began to dwindle in the Fall, and by February the club couldn't keep up its rent payments. "Then we decided we had to sell everything just so we could pay what we owed," Hennessee said...
...Many club members are pessimistic about the immediate outlook. "It's easy to understand why the Alumni won't give us any money," one said. "There's no guarantee we wouldn't end up in just the same place next year...