Lew Wasserman
Lew Wasserman
Lewis Robert "Lew" Wassermanwas an American talent agent and studio executive, sometimes credited with creating and later taking apart the studio system in a career spanning more than six decades. He was also the manager of MCA...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth22 March 1913
CountryUnited States of America
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Paul Newman's an old friend of ours out of Cleveland, Ohio. He used to sit around our house. He's the only man I've ever known to drink a case of beer all by himself. That's talent in a way.
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I was through as a manager. I did become involved late in the 1968 campaign at the national scene at the last minute. But I was through as a manager, and I've stayed through, incidentally.
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President Johnson offered the middle of the road.
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I think the executives have matured enough so that they recognize that we have a two-party system. In California, we have more than a two-party system.
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Well, it was a typical meeting with the President. He was very gracious, very outgoing.
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That room was not available, and the only other room had been booked for a Jewish bar mitzvah. I called the father and told him I needed the room and I would pay him to move the bar mitzvah to an adjoining room which was smaller.
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We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove.
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To me, it's the White House and always will be.
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I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the real issues in Vietnam, that the reasons would be answered or understood. But there was just no way to communicate.
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