Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vote among the rank-and-file in Mob-controlled unions and through "campaign contributions from the corrupt Teamsters Union pension fund." G. Robert Blakey, a Mafia expert and former federal prosecutor, confirmed to TIME what he told Hersh--that FBI bugs picked up Mob conversations about the deal. "The substance of it was that money went to the campaign through [Joe Kennedy]," says Blakey. "There was an expectation [by the mobsters that] life would be better because...
...exchange for Kennedy's pledge not to invade. In fact, as recently released tapes reveal, Kennedy was very level-headed himself and pushed the strategy of trading in Jupiter missiles in Turkey in order to defuse the crisis. In the book, Hersh turns this around and treats this deal (which, by the way, was acknowledged in 1987 by Kennedy's Secretary of State, Dean Rusk) as shocking...
...Berle's wife arrived in Washington from Hollywood and asked what in the world was going on in the White House. "If all of the women who claim to have slept with Kennedy are telling the truth, he would not have strength enough to lift a teacup, let alone deal with Khrushchev." Women or not, Kennedy dealt pretty well with Khrushchev, and that may be the larger reason why Camelot will not fade away...
...reckless and politically motivated is a much inferior version of an intelligent, if controversial, argument Garry Wills presented 15 years ago in The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power. And Hersh's argument that Kennedy deceived the public about his pledge not to invade Cuba and about his private deal to remove U.S. missiles from Turkey in exchange for the Soviet Union's removing theirs from Cuba has been a familiar part of the history of this episode for years...
Thus John Calley, the chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment, lost the opportunity to trumpet a major project in the works. Such are the caprices of show biz. But for Calley the collapse of the deal is particularly irksome, since Hollywood is clamoring for action from him as he marks his first year...