Kissinger and other studs and shedding bitter tears

[Wayne Johnson]

We once knew a woman (surgeon) in SF who was being "courted" by Alan
Greenspan.  This was somewhere in the late Seventies.  She was a friend of a
friend; we all went sailing together in the SF Bay on the 46' Columbia that
Frances Maye's husband, Frank King co-owned with a physicist who had made
lot of money working for, as I recall, Lawerence Livermore/Weapons Labs.
The lady in question was his squeeze for awhile.  She looked like someone
who stepped on the boat directly off the cover of Vogue or Cosmo.  In other
words, very attractive to the Celebrity Set.  However, she was very, vey
smart.  Smart enough not to marry Greenspan, certainly.  It was sometime
after this that he hooked up with Andrea Mitchell. (who is/was no where near
as attractive.)

I worked with an architect in Austin (who will go un-named) whose daughter
once asked him if she...or they...were actually Jewish.  He said..uh, yes,
we are.  This came as a bit of a shock to her as it was her first indication
of same.  Well, I guess being Jewish in San Antonio in the Forties and
Fifties was viewed as risky by some.  Tres wierd.

Fundamentally, there are several cultures in the US.  You see this situation
amplified in major metro areas like LA, NY and SF although it was certainly
true in Texas and still is I guess; to wit, the male American is supposed to
"signify" his success in our (so-called) Culture by having a suitably nubile
thing (less likely male than female) on his arm.  Thus showing in some
Neanderthal way (to other men, naturally ) that he is both a successful
business man and a real stud.  How droll.  The really pathetic thing is how
f****g unaware of this most of these guys are.  As in Totally Clueless.
Well, "sensitivity" is not a word commonly found in well
dressed/shod/coiffured Board Rooms across America.  Other than, of course,
to the Bottom Line. (Oh, my is that an unintended double entendre.  Well,
mercy lil ole me!)

B
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Eisenstadt" <michaele@ando.pair.com>
To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: Kissinger and other studs and shedding bitter tears


> Yes, the desire for a trophy wife addles the male brain.
>
> Madame Albright, the former Secretary of State, was left by her
billionaire
> husband for a younger more attractive woman. And that after having
> children with him. Her family forgot to tell her they were jewish.
>
> Kissinger a nice jewish boy married a jewish gurl.
>
> I read somewhere that he told his wife upon undertaking a new book:
> "Don't talk to me for 2 years."
>
> She filed for divorce. And that after having 2 children.
>
> What made you think Kissinger left his wife?
>
> He is happily married to Nancy. We see the creep on TV even in these days.
>
> Looking at Alan Greenspan's wife on NBC tv news, Andrea Mitchell,
> I think of his first wife, Joan Mitchell, not the painter or the singer of
> the
> same name but someone else and shed a bitter tear for I know not whom.
>
> How he arranged for his current wife to have the same last name as
> his first wife is unknown
>
> I think you got it wrong with Ted Turner. I have watched and heard him
> interviewed. According to him, Jane Fonda joined a Baptist church without
> even mentioning it to him beforehand. And left him.
>
> As my roommate says: pure heartbreak for him.
>
> I heard him interviewed twice, before and after Jane. The first time
> asked what he most regretted in his life his answer was just what
> one would expect.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wayne Johnson" <cadaobh@shentel.net>
> To: <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
> Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 7:32 AM
> Subject: Re: Republican leaders on the public record vis-a-vie marriage...
>
>
> Yeah, Kissinger dumped his (Jewish) wife whom, as I understand it, he met
> shortly after his WWII stint in Germany because he was getting too many
hot
> offers from younger women.  Just because she had spent part of her life in
a
> concentration camp is no reason for loyalty when there is lots of free
nooky
> hovering about.  Why anyone would want to sleep with that pig is beyond
me.
>
> Gingrich rivals Richard Wagner for sheer callousness.  However, we must
> remember that Ego is Everything for these Latter Day Saints worshipping at
> the Ayn Rand Alter of Misanthropic Philosophy.  Can't be seen down at ther
> rally Tony (remember that phrase) clubs with a fifty or sixty year old
frump
> on one's arms.  Apparently, not even having a fifty-year old Jane Fonda,
who
> is hardly a frump, was not good enough for (Democrat) Ted Turner.
>
> Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts Absolutely.   Who the Hell said
that
> anyway?  Probably not H.L. Mencken.
>
> wj
>
> And, yes, posturing is exactly what it is but then Celebrity Posturing has
> become the great American Parlor Game.  "It is All About Meeee!" is our
new
> Anthem.
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Frances Morey
>   To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
>   Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 1:06 AM
>   Subject: Republican leaders on the public record vis-a-vie marriage...
>
>
>   This has been around a time or two but it gets increasingly relevant as
> the far right seeks Constitutional change to dictate for once and for all
> that marriage is between A man and A woman ONLY. What obtuse posturing!
>
>   The Republican Defense of Marriage in practical application looks more
> like a War on Marriage. This isn't creative fiction--It's all a matter of
> public record:
>
>
>
>   Ronald Reagan - divorced the mother of two of his children to marry
Nancy
> Reagan who bore him a daughter 7 months after the marriage.
>
>   Bob Dole - divorced the mother of his child, who had nursed him through
> the long recovery from his war wounds.
>
>   Newt Gingrich - divorced his wife who was dying of cancer
>
>   Dick Armey - House Majority Leader - divorced
>
>   Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas - divorced
>
>   Gov. John Engler of Michigan - divorced
>
>   Gov. Pete Wilson of California - divorced
>
>   George Will - divorced
>
>   Sen. Lauch Faircloth - divorced
>
>   Rush limbaugh - Rush and his current wife Marta have six marriages and
> four
>   divorces between them.
>
>   Rep. Bob Barr of Georgia - Not yet 50 years old, Barr has been married
> three times.  He had the audacity to author and push the "Defense of
> Marriage Act."  (The current joke making the rounds on Capitol Hill is
"Bob
> Barr...WHICH marriage are you defending?!?)
>
>   Sen. Alfonse D'Amato of New York - divorced 3 X's
>
>   Sen. John Warner of Virginia - once married to Liz Taylor.
>
>   Gov. George Allen of Virginia - divorced
>
>   Henry Kissinger - divorced
>
>   Rep. Helen Chenoweth of Idaho - divorced
>
>   Sen. John McCain of Arizonia - divorced
>
>   Rep. John Kasich of Ohio - divorced
>
>   Rep. Susan Molinari of New York (Republican National Convention Keynote
> Speaker) - divorced
>
>
>   Don't let homosexuals destroy marriage
>   That's the job of heterosexual Republicans
>
>
>   Forwarded to me by Mariann Wizard of North Texas.
>   Frances
>   Do you Yahoo!?
>   Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time.
>
>
>