Hays Gorey and his wife Nonie were visiting friends in Washington one summer ! evening in 1959 when their hosts dragged them along to a lawn party. Sipping a drink in a dark corner of the yard, Gorey was startled by a rustling in the hedges. A party crasher? When the intruder emerged from a gap between the shrubs, Gorey recognized him instantly and asked, "Senator, do you usually enter parties this way?"
That was the first meeting between John F. Kennedy, then a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, and Gorey, then news editor at the Salt Lake City Tribune. Gorey also...
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