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 Germans—once they were called the nation of thinkers: do they still think at all? Nowadays the Germans are bored with intellect, the Germans distrust intellect, politics devours all seriousness for really intellectual things—Deutschland, Deutschland Über alles was, I fear, the end of German philosophy.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when antiracism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other and both interests lose.”
—Kimberly Crenshaw (b. 1959)