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1 posted on 05/19/2012 2:22:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Sidney said she was in the living room of the house playing backgammon with actress Mia Farrow, Sinatra's wife, when the phone call came from the White House. "He slammed the phone down and said, 'That (expletive) Bobby!' " No doubt a reference to U.S. Attorney General Bobby Kennedy, she said. "He stormed out of the room. We were all disappointed and sad.

Somebody has a faulty memory. Sinatra didn't meet Farrow until 1964. Married her in 1966. Kennedy was killed in 1963.

2 posted on 05/19/2012 2:52:28 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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They were both users.

Kennedy used Sinatra's celebrity to get votes. Sinatra used Kennedy to get cachet and to be among "the elites" (if you can call Kennedys that).

After Kennedy got elected he cast Sinatra aside due to his mob ties, which was, clearly, known beforehand (i.e. Chicago).

Sinatra was a mixed bag but he did - with his own and not taxpayers' money - send money, usually anonymously, to hardship and often tragic cases of people down on their luck - a widow, someone whose house burned down, paying for someone's funeral, etc.

5 posted on 05/19/2012 3:52:24 PM PDT by Lizavetta (You get what you tolerate)
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Bump


6 posted on 05/19/2012 7:06:11 PM PDT by bcsco
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