Word: gored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began in the 1930s, when Father Joe Kennedy was Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Son John F., then a student at Harvard, was often in residence at the embassy during vacations, and naturally enough, fell in with the Rt. Hon. David Ormsby-Gore. Young Ormsby-Gore was not only heir to the title of his father. Lord Harlech, a Shropshire landowner and onetime chairman of the Mid land Bank, but also nephew of Tory Kingmaker Lord Salisbury. "We were just young people going around together." says Ormsby-Gore. Then Jack Kennedy's kid sister Kathleen...
...time. Ormsby-Gore became a Conservative Party Member of Parliament, father of five and brother-in-law to Maurice Macmillan, son of the Prime Minister. When Jack and Bobby Kennedy visited England in 1951. they looked him up. Ormsby-Gore returned the visit in 1955 when he came to the U.S. on a lecture tour, and again last March, when he dropped by the White House for a call and a chat. Bobby Kennedy afterward took him on a personally conducted tour of Bull Run. At places and times unknown, he was caught up in the Kennedy clan...
...grill, it was widely reported that the Joint Chiefs presented President Kennedy with a written, signed approval of the Bay of Pigs operation. The rebuttal prepared for delivery by Lemnitzer blamed the subsequent failure on the withholding of key information by civilians. After hearing Lemnitzer, Tennessee's Albert Gore stalked out with an angry demand that all the Chiefs of Staff "be replaced by new, wiser and abler...
...Gore & Goldwater...
Capitol Hill reporters eagerly stand in line to snatch a few minutes with Senator Barry Goldwater, the most sought-after Republican in Washington, and Goldwater has a tough time fitting in all of the would-be interviewers. Among the disappointed was Playwright Gore (The Best Man) Vidal. assigned by a magazine to examine Conservative Goldwater with a liberal eye. Vidal protested to a Goldwater aide, who, obviously fearing the sharp edge of Vidal's prose, hustled up to Goldwater and warned: "Look, Barry, this is a guy we can't fool around with." Vidal promptly got his appointments...