{"id":83,"date":"1912-01-25T03:22:13","date_gmt":"1912-01-25T07:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyjfk.com\/?p=83"},"modified":"2013-04-09T19:08:01","modified_gmt":"2013-04-09T23:08:01","slug":"lemoyne-lem-billings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyjfk.com\/lemoyne-lem-billings\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemoyne “Lem” Billings"},"content":{"rendered":"
Boyhood and lifelong friend of JFK’s\u00a0who was\u00a0perhaps his closest friend.<\/p>\n
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Billings is usually extensively quoted in many JFK biographies:<\/p>\n
In David Pitt’s Jack and Lem: John F. Kennedy and Lem Billings, The Untold Story of an Extraordinary Friendship.<\/p>\n
“He encouraged them to thoroughly discuss why they felt certain ways, and he encouraged them to disagree with him. He never wanted them to agree with them.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Boyhood and lifelong friend of JFK’s\u00a0who was\u00a0perhaps his closest friend.<\/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":[78,79,77,76],"yoast_head":"\n