{"id":143,"date":"1912-01-17T14:26:31","date_gmt":"1912-01-17T18:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyjfk.com\/?p=143"},"modified":"2013-04-08T13:44:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T17:44:06","slug":"henry-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyjfk.com\/henry-james\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry James"},"content":{"rendered":"
JFK friend from his Stanford University time. Biographer Nigel Hamilton has surmised that Henry James’s company\u00a0was attractive because JFK felt that he provided entree to a higher social echelon than a Boston Irish was able to access.<\/p>\n
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“I mean, sure he had a good name and everything else, and people would pay him some attention. But the people I knew, and had easy access to, were not the ones that would pay much attention to his real achievements, his book, his intelligence, his charismatic charm, everything else – even his money. They didn’t care about that! No, he didn’t come from Top Drawer. He didn’t belong to Piping Rock Club on Long Island – so why bother with him? ‘He’s not important’ “<\/em><\/p>\n Reckless Youth, Hamilton, p. 381<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" JFK friend from his Stanford University time. Biographer Nigel Hamilton has surmised that Henry James’s company\u00a0was attractive because JFK felt that he provided entree to a higher social echelon than a Boston Irish was able to access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[7,132,133],"yoast_head":"\n