Janet Salter, a long-time contributor to the Beverly Hills Courier, passed away on Oct. 31. The Salter’s three children compiled their memories of their mother in this letter to the Courier, which has been slightly edited for space:
Mom was born when Warren G. Harding was president. There aren’t many of those folks around now, especially someone like Janet Salter who was politically active before she could vote. She hung out with presidents Ford, Reagan and Clinton and met “should-have-been-president” Al Gore and “better-be-president” Joe Biden. She and her husband, the Honorable Max Salter, former Mayor of Beverly Hills (the pinnacle of Dad’s life), met Joe in the seventies and gave him his first L.A. fundraiser and many thereafter.
