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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTweety just referred to Roy Cohn as "Bronx born, charismatic..."
I've read plenty of descriptions of Cohn, but i think this is the first time I've seen the word "charismatic" used.
A lizard sunning itself on a rock can be charismatic, I guess, but...
elleng
(130,876 posts)FORTUNATELY I don't watch tweety.
Celerity
(43,333 posts)maxsolomon
(33,323 posts)As another DUer pointed out, Hitler had Charisma.
keithbvadu2
(36,784 posts)Shouldnt Trump be bragging about his pal Roy Cohns lifestyle?
Trumps evangelicals/Christians would support him as God-sent for their own benefit.
https://www.americanheritage.com/roy-cohn
Nicholas von Hoffmans Citizen Cohn (Doubleday) is better, an attempt at a full life, but undercut by the inclusion of too many undigested passages from old newspaper and magazine articles, by the fact that a substantial number of the several score interviewees upon whom the author depends for his fresh material apparently preferred not to be identified, and by the authors own unfortunate fascination with the clinical details of the life Cohn led as a clandestine but desperately promiscuous homosexual amid yacht-loads of tanned, young hustlers hired in Provincetown.