"C'est la vie," say the old folks

"...It goes to show you never can tell."


~~ Chuck Berry


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I read an article about President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.





I learned some things from it -- I was kind of surprised.


Reading articles about Trump himself seems like kind of a waste of time, because they are mostly so polemical.


Reading this article by Andrew Rice, I gained some interesting insights.


Maybe it's like -- you learn about a subject by studying something nearby it.


Title of the article:  "The Young Trump"


New York magazine
(January 8, 2017)


------------------------- [excerpt, Rice article] ------------------- Until very recently, and to all outward appearances, Jared Kushner was just another socially striving young businessman with inoffensively Bloombergian political values. 


But over the past year, something seems to have changed -- in his beliefs, in his manner, in his relationship to his peers among New York City's elite. 


On a frigid day in December, Kushner visited the Times Square headquarters of Morgan Stanley to address a private meeting that the Partnership for New York City, which represents the interests of the business community, convened to discuss the outcome of the presidential election. 




More than 400 executives, many of them CEOs of major corporations, crowded into the bank's wood-paneled dining hall to hear first from Charles Schumer,





soon to be the Democratic leader in the Senate, and then from Kushner, representing his father-in-law, Donald Trump, soon to be the most powerful man in the world.


"Jared Kushner is the man," said Stephen Schwarzman, the private-equity billionaire, as he introduced Trump's emissary.  (This account is based on interviews with multiple attendees.) 


Kushner, the 35-year-old husband of Ivanka, Trump's favorite child, sat in a director's chair, wearing a gray sweater and blazer over an open-collared shirt and a pair of gleaming white sneakers.  He still has a boyish mien and a polite, ingratiating manner.  But these days, he carries himself with the assurance of a man who just received the ultimate validation.




Many of the assembled magnates had lunched with him or chatted with him at parties, having known Kushner as the proprietor of a successful Manhattan real-estate firm and the publisher of a less-successful Manhattan newspaper.  Some even considered him a protégé.  It's safe to say none, however, had foreseen this scenario. ------------------------ [end, excerpt]







(More information from this article written by Andrew Rice will continue next week on this blog.)


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