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Anathema to the Family. John McCormack and John Kennedy are not boon companions. In the past, the President and the new Speaker have had several well-publicized clashes, beginning with Kennedy's refusal, as a downy-cheeked Congressman, to sign McCormack's petition for the pardon of James M. Curley from his mail-fraud jail sentence (Curley had been the bitter foe of "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, the President's grandfather, and therefore anathema to the unforgiving Kennedy family). That same year, Kennedy seized the Massachusetts Democratic organization from McCormack: the two men had agreed to a compromise...
...final statement. "I am not the monster I am made out to be," he said. "This mass slaughter is solely the responsibility of political leaders. My guilt lies in my obedience, my respect for discipline, my allegiance to the colors and the service." He would ask the Jews for pardon, said Eichmann, except that, in view of the verdict, "this would be construed as hypocrisy . . . I must carry the burden imposed on me by fate...
Then asked about the problem posed the wall in Berlin, the Congressman suggested "driving tanks through it some dark night. If anyone asks questions can just say whoops, sorry, pardon us, we thought we had rights here...
...Pardon for All. Although the Age of Reason thus becomes the most scrupulously scrutinized period of Durant's entire enterprise, this volume contains some curious errors of emphasis: the great migration of peasants and adventurers, jailbirds and divines from the England of James I to the New World is dismissed in a paragraph; the years during which Ivan the Terrible, Boris Godunov and the first of the Romanov dynasty were transforming Muscovite Russia into an imperial power get only six pages...
Galahad Suit. Fortune favors her own; Washington did not drown in the Delaware, and Winston Churchill (as his legend has it) escaped from a Boer prison camp a few hours before he would have received a pardon. In 1951 the Virginian was a bashful, 50-year-old boy on whose career the gossipists were already dropping lilies. Then came the most famous walk-down of them all, High Noon, and here was Hollywood in top form: fashioning a Galahad suit of shining corn for an actor who did not have...