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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wooded Seclusion. The classic red-roofed Spanish house was built 45 years ago by Henry Hamilton Cotton, millionaire real estate developer and prominent California Democrat. His widow, now 90, still lives there. Cotton brought Mexican artisans to lay the tile floors and build furniture and thick, wood-pegged doors. The house encloses a warm, sheltered patio with a fountain, outdoor fireplace, lawn and shrubbery. All five bedrooms open on the patio. Nixon likes seclusion and is especially fond of a semicircular library, reachable only from an outside stairway. Wide living room windows overlook the ocean...
...legalized the Communist Party, which under a different label had run a slate in the election anyway, polling a minuscule 103,000 votes. He also freed a score of political prisoners, including top Communist leaders, curbed the strong-arm political police, and promised amnesty to all guerrillas who would lay down their arms...
...Faculty's unanimity was not all it appeared to be. Behind tranquil debates in the plushly upholstered Loeb Drama Center lay strongly held political differences and hectic Faculty efforts at reconciling groups which did not agree on how to respond to the crisis...
...beneath the surface of her character lay the qualities that were to sustain Ethel Kennedy and all those around her?an absolute dedication to the duties of wife and mother, a total devotion to her Roman Catholic faith, a steely will and discipline. The Kennedy women are the choral figures in the family's saga. Their lot has been to bear witness and to endure. Each of them has done so with a grace and resilience peculiarly colored by her own temperament. Rose, the aloof matriarch, has achieved almost mythic indomitability...
Then her own moment came in Los Angeles. No one who was there will ever forget that it was Ethel, in the first panicky moments after Bobby was shot, who calmly pushed back the surging crowd in the hotel serving kitchen to give him air. Later, as he lay dying, she led a small group of friends and family out onto the roof of Good Samaritan Hospital for a break. Everybody was numb with shock, but Ethel was dry-eyed, her voice was firm, she even managed to laugh...