SINATRA WAS SNUBBED BY PRESIDENT JOHNSON
Singing legend FRANK SINATRA was shunned by the White House after former president LYNDON B. JOHNSON accused him being an "unsuitable" dinner guest.
The crooner often enjoyed state dinners with John F. Kennedy, but Sinatra was snubbed by Johnson when he took over office following Kennedy’s death in 1963, according to a former White House aide.
Jack Valenti, Johnson’s former special assistant, reveals in his memoirs This Time, This Place, "Bobby Kennedy (the then attorney general) told me it would not be suitable to have Sinatra. He has some friends who aren’t the kind he ought to have, and Bobby thinks it wise to avoid him.
"I was crushed. Thank God the invitations had not gone out… I never told Frank about this slight." (KD/WNWCPS/LJ) WENN - FIFTH - HOLLYWOOD, SHOWBIZ & PEOPLE NEWS - 07 MAY 2007
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