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Obituary: Hairdresser Vidal Sassoon, 84, after a long battled with leukemia.
Not only was Sassoon the subject of a movie, he was also well known for his commercials trying to get people to buy his hair products.
He was married four times.
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Another obituary: LBJ attorney general Nicholas Katzenbach, 90, at his home.
He was one of the so-called "best and brightest" policy makers David Halberstam wrote about years ago, but of course that was more like a sarcastic description given the Vietnam mess.
His six years in government put him in the thick of some of the major events of the ’60s. He advised President John F. Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis, negotiated the release of Cuban prisoners captured during the Bay of Pigs invasion and pushed for an independent commission to investigate the Kennedy assassination. He was Robert F. Kennedy’s No. 2 in the Justice Department and took on J. Edgar Hoover, the pugnacious F.B.I. director, over his wiretapping of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. As an under secretary of state, he defended Johnson’s escalation of the Vietnam War before Congress.
“Few men have been so deeply involved in the critical issues of our time,” Johnson wrote to him when Mr. Katzenbach left government in 1968.
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This was from last November, but I am glad a state's colleges told the Gates/Broad-backed NCTQ to shove it.
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