Nana Biography

Of course, now, it’s open to everybody, and you know the are members and everything, and it’s much nicer, and if they had been at the time, we probably would’ve stayed in. But it burned us up. It just burned us up. And yet it was the nicest place to play golf on the peninsula. And we enjoyed that and the facilities, and the whole thing. And the kids grew up in that atmosphere at the club, and they knew the difference. I was awfully glad. I think they grew up with a very good sense of values. They can get along with all those people, but the real friends were other people, they’re close friends. And I think that’s true of me, I don’t have any close friends at the country club.

Nancy, who are your close friends?  I mean, have you any friends that go all the way back?

Yes, but I don’t see them. I just recently visited one that goes all the way back to Lexington, Mary, her daughter lives out here now, was here, and had them down for dinner. Jon had never met them, he’s heard me talk about them.  Her son came, her daughter and her daughter-in-law, and I had Lennon Inger here, and it was just like we had never parted, we had a lot of fun. But it was all surface talk, you know, I mean, you didn’t get into – you’d never have a political discussion with them, you would never talk about anything important, because they would be on a different side of the fence.  They’re nice people, they’re terribly wealthy, he’s one of the richest men in the country, and all that. And Jon got along with them beautifully. He gets along with anybody. That’s one thing when we first met. It kind of bothered me when we first met that was from a different background, and maybe it would be, he might not be accepted readily, oh I’ve never known him to be bothered because people liked him very much.

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