![]() ![]() ![]() Upon graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy at 17, Vidal enlisted in the Army and served in the Pacific during World War II, thereafter devoting his life to writing. He shares a stepfather with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who took over his old room at Merrywood, the family estate in northern Virginia. Military Academy at West Point, where his father was a professor, and spent much of his early life in Washington, the setting of many of his novels. ![]() The United States has become a Second World nation that should join with the Soviet Union in an alliance of “the two klutzes of the Northern Hemisphere.”Įven the long-dead Duke of Windsor came in for it as “radiantly ignorant on every subject,” as Vidal recounted his friendship with the Duchess of Windsor, who died last year. Every president of the modern age except Dwight Eisenhower has been “a demented sissy,” including Vidal’s one-time friend Jack Kennedy. The Supreme Court is dismantling the Bill of Rights. ![]()
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