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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