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Booming Homes. Almost as intensive as the search for jobs was the search for homes-especially in stately old Georgetown, where an outlandish real estate boom was well under way. The big attraction was proximity to the Kennedys' home on N Street-even though the Kennedys will soon be moving to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Home sellers take delight in burbling that their little gem is "just nine blocks from the Kennedys," and the closer the address, the higher the price. One brick row house across the street from the Kennedy home-in a bad state of disrepair-is priced...
Michigan's Soapy Williams, newly appointed Assistant Secretary of State, paid a reported $100,000 for his chic Georgetown address (1401 31st Street), and a well-heeled Eastern Congressman put up a whopping...
...housing problem was complicated by the fact that many Republicans (e.g., the Christian Herters, the Cabot Lodges) are keeping their Georgetown properties, further reducing-and inflating-the market. One eager home owner breathlessly told prospective buyers that she had "flown right back from Nassau in the middle of my vacation when I heard that Georgetown prices were getting higher and higher." Hammers & Hats. Along with the harbingers of the new Administration, there were signs of the passing of the old. Vice President Nixon, who had, by his own wish, plummeted from public view "for a while," begged off from appearing...
Others failed to meet the confrontation test. Fred V. Heinkel, head of the Missouri Farmers Association, was a leading contender for Agriculture Secretary until he arrived in Georgetown. But he had no answers to several key questions put to him by Kennedy. Jack was astounded and, to double-check, had Bobby question Heinkel alone. When Heinkel left, late in the afternoon, he was no longer in the running. Jack settled on Minnesota's defeated Governor Orville Freeman, a Marine combat veteran, for Agriculture...
...took ten sticks of dynamite, some blasting caps and wire, and began to shadow Jack Kennedy. He cased the cottage in Hyannisport, sized up the house in Georgetown, headed south for Palm Beach. "The security," he said later, "was lousy." His plans were to rig himself up as a human bomb and explode in Kennedy's presence. "The Kennedy money bought him the White House," Richard Pavlick said. "I wanted to teach the United States the presidency is not for sale...