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Other top salaries ranged from $7.1 million down to $3.6 million. HMC President Jack R. Meyer rounded out the list at $1.6 million, nearly doubling his $875,000 salary last year...
...brother's keeper, in the first hours after the President's assassination, ordering someone to scour the White House for incriminating files and secret tape recordings before they fall into the hands of Lyndon Johnson. What does he want to keep secret? In Hersh's book, it's Jack's long-rumored first marriage, the Mob contacts that helped him steal the 1960 election, and his history of health problems, including years of venereal disease. Then there was his real role in the murder of South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem and in CIA attempts to kill Fidel Castro--there...
...Kennedy deserves some of the blame for triggering the Cuban missile crisis because of his secret plotting against Castro, which the Cuban leader knew about, even if most Americans did not. "The overriding deceit--one that still distorts the history of those 13 days--was the absolute determination of Jack and Bobby Kennedy to conceal their campaign to assassinate Castro and destroy his regime," Hersh writes. "Kennedy did not dare tell the full story of the Soviet missiles in Cuba, because it was his policies that brought the weapons there." This is an interesting theory, but it's plucked...
Much has been written about Kennedy's squalid covert sex life, his reckless association with men and women tied to organized crime, his father's uninhibited use of family money to oil Jack's political career, his family's extraordinary efforts to hide the truth about themselves and manipulate the press into cooperating with them in that effort. Hersh adds some significant new detail to all these stories and many others. But he also offers a larger justification for returning to this sordid and oft-trod ground: "Kennedy's private life and personal obsessions--his character--affected the affairs...
...write the book five different ways," Dunne says. "That's why it's so late. Then when I would talk about it, I would say, 'I was having dinner with Marcia Clark...' and people responded. I got the idea of telling my story." Excitable, charming, with a voice like Jack Benny's, Dunne sometimes sits on the sofa's edge as he talks. His pied-a-terre (he mostly lives in Connecticut) is decorated in the conventional style of an East Side gentleman, complete with bird prints on the wall. Asked why he called the hero Gus Bailey, Dunne says...