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`Shadow Presidents' Documents Attitudes
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ers and assistants, Medved
relates, included many in-
teresting characters.
Among them was William
Loeb J., assistant secretary
to President Theodore
Roosevelt.
Loeb's relationship with
Roosevelt began on the af-
ternoon following
Roosevelt's inauguration as
governor of New York in
1899. Loeb was the only
stenographer who could
keep up with Roosevelt's
atic energy and staccato
u, livery.
To Loeb," (writes
Medved), "Roosevelt be-
came the 'best friend I have
or expect to have,' while TR,
near the end of his
presidency, publicly de-
scribed Loeb as `the man
who has been closest to me
politically.'
"The evidence strongly
suggests that Loeb was
Jewish and . . . most of his
contemporaries made
that assumption. Loeb
was ashamed of his
background and did his
best to obscure it."
One of the rumors that
made the rounds in New
York City for years was that
Loeb had been denied ad-
mission to the Union
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
League Club because of his
Semitic heritage and that
Theodore Roosevelt even-
tually resigned his own
membership in protest.
It hardly mattered that
Loeb as a young man had
joined the Episcopal
Church, that his only child
was baptized an Episcopa-
lian and that when Loeb
died, he received an Epis-
copal funeral. In the eyes of
a bigot, a Jew remains a
Jew.
Years after Loeb's death,
his son, a prominent New
Hampshire newspaper pub-
lisher, was still answering
anti-Semitic slurs . . . De-
spite this attitude on the
part of the Loeb family, the
Daughter Glorifies Zionist
Activist Panush's Moustache
A Zionist activist has a
moustache that served as an
inspiration for his daugh-
ter.
Naomi Panush Salus
never knew her father other
than with a moustache.
Neither did her mother.
That created her
enthusiasm for a brief chil-
dren's story, "My Daddy's
Moustache" (Holt, Rinehart
and Winston).
The story can be read in
less than five minutes. Add-
ing to the charm it has for
youngsters are the illustra-
tions, the work of Tomie de-
Paola.
Ndomi Panush Salus, a
native Detroiter, the
youngest of the four
daughters of Mr. and
Mrs. Louis Panush, is an
honor graduate of the
University of Michigan.
She studied law at
American University in
Washington. She is now
on the staff of the press
office of the board of gov-
ernors of the Federal Re-
serve System.
*Her father is the former
principal of Western High
School in Detroit and active
in the Zionist Organization
of America — Detroit Dis-
trict as chairman of its pub-
lic affairs committee.
prestigious 'Encyclopedia
Judaica' lists William
Loeb's service in the White
House as an important ad-
vance for American Jews."
In his chapter on Ted
Sorensen, Medved reveals
the dramatic impact that
one of John F. Kennedy's
closest advisers had on the
President's political life.
According to Medved,
Sorensen gave Kennedy one
of the only assets he lacked:
the power of words.
Sorensen went to work for
Kennedy as a "number two
legislative assistant during
Kennedy's freshman term
in the House of Representa-
tives. Their working rela-
tionship lasted for the rest
of Kennedy's life and for
Sorensen it became an ob-
session rather than a job.
"I had given 11 years of
my life to John Kennedy,"
Medved quotes Sorensen,
"and for those 11 years he
was the only human being
who mattered to me."
According to Medved,
"There is little question
that the lofty style of speak-
ing and writing that becmae
so firmly identified with
JFK was more Sorensen's
doing than Kennedy's."
Sorensen, who co-
authored the Pulitzer
prize-winning "Profiles
in Courage" with Ken-
nedy, became the
President's major speech
writer.
Medved traces Sorensen's
Jewish background to his
mother, Annis, who was the
daughter of Russian Jewish
immigrants and a leader in
the woman's suffrage
movement.
Before writing this classic
work on "The Shadow
Presidents," Medved al-
ready had a notable record
of literary achievements,
which began with his best-
selling "What Really Hap-
pened to the Class of 1965,"
and in Hollywood documen-
taries.
Lipshutz Quits
FIRESTONE
—
WASHINGTON
Robert J. Lipshutz, counsel
to President Carter, has
submitted his resignation
and announced that he is re-
turning to Atlanta to prac-
tice law.
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