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...Marys on the mainland. Ferguson asked if Gillette could arrange for a marriage license to be issued to someone famous, whose name she didn't mention. Gillette evidently allowed it wouldn't be a problem. About 10 days before the wedding, he spoke to chief probate clerk Shirley Wise about it. "He said there's going to be a marriage that needs to be confidential," Wise said...
...Thursday before the wedding, Gillette told Wise to "pick up the blood-test lady"--Alice Hughes, a lab assistant--and drive to the St. Marys airport. Wise said she found the clandestine nature of the affair a bit frightening. "I'm not a person who takes risks," she said. Arriving at the airport, they met David Sayre, Janet Ferguson's husband, and he took them to a four-seater plane on the runway. They climbed in and were introduced to Carolyn Bessette, a name that didn't mean anything to Wise and Hughes. Wise began asking questions. She finally realized...
When Kennedy arrived by plane, David Sayre brought him into the airport office, where the two women waited. Wise says, "TV doesn't do him justice." He was wearing jeans and sneakers and a baseball cap turned backward. "He was as nice a gentleman as you would want to meet," said Wise. (Mary Jo Ferguson paid for the license...
...when Evan Thomas and I were writing The Wise Men, a history of American cold war diplomacy, Bundy told us that there was no such thing as the Establishment. If so, it was Bundy as much as anyone who brought about the end of an era in which foreign policy was entrusted to a noble club of gentlemen secure in their common outlook and bonds of trust. As his successor Walt Rostow recalled thinking at the end of the 1968 meeting of elders that Bundy helped convene, "The American establishment is dead...
...spent a large part of my three and a half years at Harvard at PBH and suffered many headaches, considered quitting many times, and often wanted to surrender. In the end, whether I am on the wrong or right side of the organizational tide, I know that I was wise to stick it through. Although it manifests itself in many different ways, seeing the dedication our volunteers and program directors have to our communities is reason to remain idealistic. I know we make mistakes, but without those mistakes we would never change or learn. If nothing else, I have witnessed...