I think he's much more proud that he made men out of some football players. The grandson of slaves, young Richard's father left home when he was five, leaving the family in poverty. Growing up, he moved to Memphis, and then to Chicago, where he got an opportunity to write in the Federal Writer's Project. In 1933, he founded Twentieth Century, which merged with Fox the next year. One of the most respected names in film history, Zanuck was awarded the Irving Thalberg Memorial Award three separate times.
Movies make stars.
However, the sentiment was not original with Kennedy. Liddy had been brought into the Nixon administration in 1968 as special assistant to the secretary of the treasury. He then moved to the White House, conducting political espionage and attempting to plug news leaks. In the mid-1990s, Liddy became the host of a nationally syndicated radio talk show, which he used as a forum for expressing his conservative political views. While in jail, Liddy believed he might become the object of retribution from other prisoners.