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Preposterous? Jack Javits for President? Or Vice President? A slum-born Jew from the Lower East Side of New York? A luncheon companion and confidant of the G.O.P.'s Eastern "kingmakers" and Wall Street internationalists? A mugwump who backed F.D.R. in 1940 and bucked Barry Goldwater in 1964? An urban apostate who out-Democrats most Democrats? ("If you get any more forward than you are," Hubert Humphrey once kidded him, "you'll be ahead of the Democratic Party.") To the brand of Republican who keeps the conservative faith between elections with readings from Robert Taft and denunciations of Lyndon Johnson...
...consideration, the old religious and racial stigmata of U.S. politics were pretty well dissolved by John F. Kennedy's victory in 1960. In 1964, few voters were concerned that the G.O.P. presidential candidate was half-Jewish, his running mate a Catholic. "There is no office now closed to a Jew, including the presidency," says Javits, and he is convinced that a member of his faith will be a national candidate within the next decade. "It would be nice," he muses, "to be the fellow it happened...
Vacationing at Murray Bay, Canada, in 1933, Jack met and married Marjorie Ringling, an adopted daughter of the circus Ringlings and an aspiring actress. Within three years, they were divorced. Says Javits: "I guess we were too young. She was a Catholic and I was a Jew, and that had something to do with...
...Adolf Hitler rejected an invitation to attend a meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for Refugees, formed by Franklin D. Roosevelt to consider the problem of Nazi Germany's persecuted Jews. Nevertheless, Hitler was represented, if unofficially, at the conference in Evian-les-Bains, a French spa near the Swiss border. His emissary was Dr. Heinrich von Neumann, a Viennese Jew, who arrived on a strange and cold-blooded mission: to offer for sale, at $250 a head, 40,000 Austrian Jews...
Racial prejudice and anti-Semitism are still vital factors in the selection of club members. The Porcellian Club is reputed never to have admitted a Jewish student, and the story is told that the only Jew ever to enter the Delphic Club did so under an assumed name...