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When Frank Sinatra publicly insulted Washington Post Columnist Maxine Cheshire with a mouthful of four-letter words and two dollar bills on the eve of President Nixon's Inauguration (TIME, Feb. 5), many proper people in the capital were appalled. Nixon himself, according to one source, was livid, feeling that the incident had "besmirched his Inauguration...
...searching for a reason for the outburst, Cheshire could think of no recent cause. Only a year ago, when Sinatra was entertaining at an Agnew party, she had asked him: "Do you think your Mafia ties might prove embarrassing to the Vice President?" At that time, Sinatra replied, "Naw, I don't worry about anything like that." But these things rankle-particularly when a man who has friends in the mob keeps trying to make friends in the White House...
Doghouse. More than ten years ago Sinatra devoted time and talent to the Jack Kennedy campaign, and he was a guest at Kennedy's Inauguration. But in October 1961, Sinatra's name turned up on an FBI tape of a conversation between Chicago Mafioso Salvatore Giancana and a friend. Giancana indicated that he was trying to use Sinatra as a link to Attorney General Robert Kennedy. It was a doomed effort. Sinatra went to the Kennedy doghouse...
...lifelong Democrat, Sinatra did not give up. In 1968 he volunteered to campaign for Hubert Humphrey, but his hopes there never materialized. Annoyed, Sinatra turned to the Republicans and campaigned for Ronald Reagan in 1970. Through Reagan's graces Sinatra came to know Spiro Agnew. Cordial friends ever since, Agnew frequently spends long weekends at Sinatra's place in Palm Springs. The Vice President honored Sinatra in January 1971 by flying to Palm Springs for the dedication of the Martin Anthony Sinatra Medical Education Center, Sinatra's monument to his father. Later, while on a good-will...
Just what effect Sinatra's attack and Mrs. Cheshire's threatened law suit will have on the singer's friendship with Agnew is unsure. After a long, stiff silence, Agnew's press secretary Victor Gold offered a statement: "Maxine Cheshire has a carapace of an armadillo." Not everyone has friends like that...