Paul B. Fay

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Paul "Red" Burgess Fay, Jr. (born July 8, 1918),.in San Francisco, CA. He attended Stanford University and after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, enlisted in the Navy. He was sent to the small boat training center where John F. Kennedy was his instructor. They were assigned to the same base in the South Pacific, though they were not on the same boat. They became close friends, and Fay worked on Kennedy's early campaigns for Congress and Senate, and also on his campaign for President. Fay was an usher at JFK's wedding. On JFK's election, Fay was nominated and served as Under-Secretary of the Navy while Kennedy was President. He resigned following Kennedy's assassination. In 1966, he wrote the best-seller 'The Pleasure of His Company' about Kennedy.