Word: vernon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This is Massachusetts, there is an emotional attachment to Sen. Kennedy and the Kennedy family and that is very hard to beat," said William B. Vernon, executive director of the Massachusetts Republican Party...
...long-delayed vacation on Martha's Vineyard, President Clinton turned his attention to important, ego-satisfying goals in life, like getting his golf score under 80. He got as close as 82, and spent the rest of the week resting with his family and having dinner with superlawyer Vernon Jordan, Katharine Graham of the Washington Post and novelist William Styron...
...leadership is the question, Of what use is the N.A.A.C.P. -- or any other traditional black civil-rights organizations -- now that most legal racial barriers to housing, education and the political arena have been removed? "There is no problem in my mind justifying the need ((for civil-rights organizations))," says Vernon Jordan, the Washington power broker who served as president of the National Urban League until 1981. "But when you have removed the barriers, then you have got to figure out how to deal with the debris. We did make the wall crumble, but I am not sure we have effectively...
...summered on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, where she had three traditional saltbox houses side by side set on 350 beachfront acres, with two large ponds and a bird sanctuary. There she would quietly entertain old friends like the author William Styron and the influential Washington lawyer Vernon Jordan and Lady Bird Johnson. Each Labor Day weekend, Onassis would have all the Kennedys from Hyannis Port over for a picnic. "It was like the old days at Camelot," says one who was there. Did Onassis still feel like a Kennedy? Michael Kennedy, the son of Robert, simply says...
...would have preferred [Carnesale'sappointment] hadn't occurred, but that's selfishreaction," Vernon added. "I don't know how strongthe presidents need was for a new provost...