Politics
In 1952 McCrary spearheaded a campaign, ultimately successful, to get General Dwight D. Eisenhower to run for president of the United States on the Republican ticket. A high point of that recruitment effort was a “Citizens for Eisenhower” rally at Madison Square Garden. Falkenburg and McCrary organized and hosted the three-hour event. At the behest of John Hay Whitney, finance chairman for the Republican Party, Falkenburg became head of the women’s division of the finance committee in 1954. (McCrary was a wartime buddy and neighbor of Whitney—he and Jinx lived in a house on Whitney’s Greentree Estate in Manhasset, Long Island). She continued to serve on the finance committee and remained a lifelong Republican, occasionally lending her name to the party’s causes.
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“The politics of the exile are fever,
revenge, daydream,
theater of the aging convalescent.
You wait in the wings and rehearse.
You wait and wait.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“While you’re playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)