Another interesting thing my grandmother's brother Dick Dickter ran the George Wallace campaign in Suffolk County.
He was a tough one he won a purple heart in WW 2 & was part of an elite force in Japan that snuck behind enemy lines & took their heads off with piano wires when he came home he had a metal plate in his head.
In old age he was a tough old dude as well & would pummel anybody that made Anti-Semitic remarks.