Crawfie Schlesinger

It is difficult to imagine whom we shall hear from next respecting the private life and thoughts of John F. Kennedy, but my guess is there is a scullery maid in our future, and Life and Look will wrestle for her memoirs, one hundred volumes from now in the saga of the exploitation of John Kennedy. Really, one wonders why the live Kennedys don’t put a stop to it. Their legal rights are concededly slim — there are few laws hanging around to which they could appeal in order to guard the posthumous privacy of John Kennedy. But they do have something else going for them. The Big Freeze. If they have applied it towards Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the worst of the current crop of offenders, it has gone unnoticed. Not that the threat of the Freeze would necessarily have scared him away from Operation Peephole, the commitment to the memoirs having been undertaken; but it might have thrown the operation into disarray, like the Bay of Pigs.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

William F. Buckley Jr. founded National Review magazine in 1955.

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It is difficult to imagine whom we shall hear from next respecting the private life and thoughts of John F. Kennedy, but my guess is there is a scullery maid in our future, and Life and Look will wrestle for her memoirs, one hundred volumes from now in the saga of the exploitation of John Kennedy. Really, one wonders why the live Kennedys don’t put a stop to it. Their legal rights are concededly slim — there are few laws hanging around to which they could appeal in order to guard the posthumous privacy of John Kennedy. But they do have something else going for them. The Big Freeze. If they have applied it towards Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the worst of the current crop of offenders, it has gone unnoticed. Not that the threat of the Freeze would necessarily have scared him away from Operation Peephole, the commitment to the memoirs having been undertaken; but it might have thrown the operation into disarray, like the Bay of Pigs.

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