Early Years
Shelly Saltman grew up during the Great Depression years as the child of Russian and Ukrainian Orthodox Jewish parents in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His father Nate Saltman was very involved in Boston area politics and Shelly’s godfather, his father's best friend, was Thomas P. Tip O'Neill, who went on the become the famous and influential Speaker of the House in the United States House of Representatives. The visitors to the homes of Shelly’s parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles included Massachusetts Governor James Michael Curley, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, Madame Chiang Kai-shek of China, and Éamon de Valera, the first Prime Minister of Ireland.
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