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Clare Boothe Luce was a conservative Republican, didn't she support Nixon in '60?
As for giving a soldier going off to war a good luck coin, that does not seem a political act, merely a supportive one, as in "Good luck fighting the war young man, the nation is grateful." That hardly seems like the sort of gesture which would seal some political alliance and represent a pledge of future loyalty.
She had reason to be angry with Senator Wayne Morris in 1960, he gave her trouble during her 1959 Senate hearing when she was being confirmed ambassador to Brazil. (Ike, a Republican appointed her.) Morris was a rival of JFK's for the Democrat nomination and Kennedy knocked Morris out of the race when he beat him in the Oregon Primary, Morris' home state.
When the Democrats took office in 1961, Luce was out of her ambassadorship and she devoted the next few years supporting Barry Goldwater. Then when the GOP won the White House in '68, President Nixon appointed her to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. She served until 1977 when another Democrat, Jimmy Carter, took office.
This is strange to me because if he had not been elected he very well may have never been assassinated.
Could she have known something or had some type of premonition about what might happen ? Or was it just his foreign and civil policy views ?
From my limited presidential knowledge I think of JFK as a " Compassionate Conservative", not just a Democrat. He was one of the best, if not the best. No President is prefect, obviously.
Last edited by Know Nonsense; 08-08-2013 at 01:47 PM..
Clare Boothe Luce was a conservative Republican, didn't she support Nixon in '60?
As for giving a soldier going off to war a good luck coin, that does not seem a political act, merely a supportive one, as in "Good luck fighting the war young man, the nation is grateful." That hardly seems like the sort of gesture which would seal some political alliance and represent a pledge of future loyalty.
She had reason to be angry with Senator Wayne Morris in 1960, he gave her trouble during her 1959 Senate hearing when she was being confirmed ambassador to Brazil. (Ike, a Republican appointed her.) Morris was a rival of JFK's for the Democrat nomination and Kennedy knocked Morris out of the race when he beat him in the Oregon Primary, Morris' home state.
When the Democrats took office in 1961, Luce was out of her ambassadorship and she devoted the next few years supporting Barry Goldwater. Then when the GOP won the White House in '68, President Nixon appointed her to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. She served until 1977 when another Democrat, Jimmy Carter, took office.
She did not campaign for Nixon from what I have read. Quote:" Clare did not campaign for Richard Nixon in the 1960 Presidential Election. She told her official biographer, Stephen Shadegg, that the reason for this was because of her close relationship with Joseph Kennedy. If that was the case, why was she campaigning for Johnson?
So it is a bit of a mystery if she was friends with Joseph Kennedy why did she support LBJ ? Maybe she just thought he wasn't mature or old enough to be president yet.
Last edited by Know Nonsense; 08-08-2013 at 05:34 PM..
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