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...could be that the cocoon of family that the Presleys drew around themselves was impermeable. "Though we had friends and relatives, including my parents," Presley's father Vernon recalled, "the three of us formed our own private world." Guralnick paints this world with perspective, respect and great decency; it is one of the book's triumphs. "Poor we were," the elder Presley says, "but trash we weren't. We never had any prejudice." Presley may have been easygoing, but when the country performer Ira Louvin called him "a white nigger," Presley stood...
...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...
...Mitt is a formidable candidate and one who will be a better candidate in the future," Vernon said...
...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...