Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage (57 page)

Bicycling with my father and my younger brother, David, 1953

At thirteen, I outed myself as Jewish with a bar mitzvah. I am flanked by my parents, Elsie and Sam, my grandmother, and my aunts and uncle.

Recreation at a Catskills summer camp. My brother, David, is watching.

A family meal at the legendary Brown’s Hotel in the Catskills, 1957. From left, my sister Doris (standing), my father, myself, my sister Ann, my mother, and my brother, David

My mother and I, with Eleanor Roosevelt at an Israel bonds dinner, in Bayonne, 1958

The Massachusetts legislature softball team. Kneeling, fourth from left, is State Representative Andrew Card, who later became George W. Bush’s chief of staff in the White House.

After deciding to run for Congress, I had just fifty-two hours to collect the two thousand signatures needed to qualify for the Democratic primary ballot.
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Waiting for election returns with my mother and my niece Julie and nephew Jeffrey, 1982
(Richard Sobol)

With Speaker Tip O’Neill, Senator Ted Kennedy, Congressman Ed Markey, and Nancy Korman, cochair of my finance committee, at the Sidney Hill Country Club, Newton, Massachusetts, October 3, 1980. After the archbishop of Boston, Cardinal Medeiros, warned voters not to support me, Kennedy broke his neutrality and endorsed my candidacy.

Talking immigration on the floor of the House, with Representatives Pete Rodino and Ron Mazzoli, 1987. I wrote in the margin: “Who says only Italians talk with their hands?”

With the Israeli Defense Forces in Lebanon, 1984

Meeting with Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, 1983