ON THE RIGHT
The summer before he died, George Sokolsky telephoned to Roy Cohn and his associate Thomas Bolan, summoning them instantly to his summer place in Otis, Massachusetts. Mr. Sokolsky was an imperious man, but he was not given to calling two very busy men to travel 150 miles out of the metropolitan bustle in which they thrive, merely because he felt the need for a command performance. And so they set out, Cohn, at 35, weatherbeaten with notoriety, wealth, corporate and personal intrigue; Bolan, 38, also a lawyer, tough, idealistic, a successful sports promoter (Patterson-Ingo, Patterson-Liston) , a devoted anti-Communist conservative. They went to hear what the aging autocrat had to say. Their knowledge of him, and his ways, went back many years. It was Sokolsky who had recommended Cohn to Senator McCarthy as his assistant; and it was while both young men were working for McCarthy that Roy Cohn, and Robert Kennedy, developed a passionate mutual antipathy.
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