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Yet in his own era he could parlay "leadership" symbolism into a pair of landslide victories.
Details the papers mention include: a) The Chicago mob's help in the 1960 election was secured in a JFK-Sam Giancana face-to-face meeting arranged by JFK's father; b) Evelyn Lincoln, JFK's personal secretary, tells Hersh that she knows the West Virginia election was "bought"; c) Four ex-Secret Service agents describe the large numbers of sex partners--many of them prostitutes--ushered into the White House and hotel rooms; d) General Dynamics was able to parlay its discovery of JFK's affair with Judith Campbell Exner into a huge fighter plane contract.
No black writer roughly of Ellison's generation--not Richard Wright, not Langston Hughes, not Zora Neale Hurston--was able to parlay one novel into a position of being a respected critic and theorist of American literature.
Moreover, the Republicans hold out hope that they can parlay these principles into good politics by persuading the public that Clinton's actions merit impeachment.
Yet the nation failed to parlay its biggest public-relations success--the October 1995 Million Man March --into greater influence and membership.