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Altogether he cracked up seven planes. He flew with famed Eddie Rickenbacker. Years later Winant asked Rickenbacker if he had ever been frightened in the war. "Only once," said Rickenbacker. "When you taxied me around a field...
...Little New Deal. After World War I, he married Constance Rivington Russell, whose father was the wealthy law partner of Eleanor Roosevelt's father. They settled down in a rambling white frame Colonial house in Concord. There Winant took up his political career. He scorned political machines, political patronage, was a dismal campaigner. But New Hampshire was ripe for his liberal, common-man political philosophy. He got elected to the State Legislature; in 1925 he beat Colonel Frank Knox, now Secretary of the Navy, for Governor, broke the New Hampshire anti-third-term tradition...
...Governor, Winant set up a Little New Deal before Roosevelt. In the early '30s he was often mentioned as a possible 1936 Republican candidate for President. The New Deal noticed him too-and took him into camp. He went to Washington as first chairman of the Social Security Board, became director of the International Labor Organization, and finally representative of the international New Deal as Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
Honest Gil. Winant's absentmindedness, honesty and great human kindness are legendary. He refused pay for his first two days on the Social Security Board because he had done some private business on those days; he emptied his pockets for handouts, was eternally grateful to waiters who brought him a second cup of coffee...
...Winant in London. At Bristol airport, when Winant arrived, he was supposed to be welcomed by the Duke of Kent, but the Duke had not yet appeared. Winant obligingly climbed back in his plane, to keep from embarrassing the Duke. As Ambassador to the knee-breeched Court, Winant is unworldly and unkempt as ever. He arrived with one grey suit, which promptly fell into baggy-kneed disrepair. His conversations are brief sentences between long, groping pauses, long minutes of staring at the floor...