Cyril Magnin - 1964 Letter to Peter Lawford About Jackie Kennedy. Cyril Magnin (1899ñ1988) was one of the most prominent San Francisco businessmen of the post-World War II era, chief executive of the Joseph Magnin Co., which evolved into a multi-million dollar chain of upscale women's clothing stores. Personally gracious and urbane, Magnin was a veteran political fund-raiser and power broker in the Democratic Party, dating back to New Deal days. He was Treasurer of President Franklin Roosevelt's northern California re-election campaign in 1944, a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1948 (that nominated President Harry Truman) and again in 1964, when he co-chaired the Finance Committee of President Lyndon Johnson's campaign in California. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Magnin was one of a quartet of fabulously wealthy San Francisco Jewish contributors to Democratic candidates, appreciatively called "The Green Machine" by career politicians. Magnin himself was a major donor to the presidential candidacies of John F. Kennedy in 1960 and Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, and, in the interim, developed a close friendship with Lyndon Johnson. He appeared in the film Maxie as Mr San Francisco, and in Foul Play as Pope Pius XIII. TLS, Oct. 13, 1964, 1p., to Peter Lawford. Mostly about Jackie Kennedy. There are 3 light coffee cup stains on letter. Includes carbon copy of Lawford's letter to Magnin. Picture of Magnin is not included here.

There are 3 light coffee cup stains on letter