Word: azalea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presidential bedroom, for example, hangs an Impressionistic Flag Day by Childe Hassam, which is a holdover from the Kennedy Administration. Nixon also has a Red Barn painted by a previous occupant, Dwight Eisenhower. Tricia's room features a picture of azaleas, presented to her as 1968 Queen of the Norfolk Azalea Festival. Pat's taste is seen in the private sitting room and long hall. She has kept the Early American masterworks acquired by Jacqueline Kennedy and earlier tenants, but she particularly likes Impressionists and turn-of-the-century Americans. Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum has lent...
Managing a bright mien despite a strep throat, Tricia Nixon arrived in Norfolk, Va., last week to be crowned Queen of the annual Azalea Festival. Tiny Tricia (she's working at bringing her weight up to 100 Ibs.) went through an exhausting round of receptions and luncheons in a series of winsome minidresses, then gave the town fathers and mothers a mild shock by showing up for the coronation in her own gown instead of the one provided by the city. There to bestow the crown was her proud father, who stole a few hours away from the White...
When Mary sends flowers to someone, it is likely to be quite a bunch. In April, as "a tiny gesture" to Lady Bird Johnson's campaign to beautify the cap ital, she sent 10,300 azalea bushes down to Washington and threw in 150 dog wood trees for good measure. Last fall m memory of her friend Susan Wagner' late wife of New York City's mayor' she planted 40 flowering cherry trees on Park Avenue-in addition to the 44 magnolia trees she had already put there and the 400 other trees...
Horticulturally speaking, a Virginia azalea and a Texas rose aren't even kissing kin. But showbizwise, what casting! So Norfolk's International Azalea Festival set a date with Washington's Luci Baines Johnson, and not only got a gracious four-day queen but an unexpected visit from L.B.J. in the bargain. Daddy may be busy these days, but he could hardly use Viet Nam as an alibi when it came to crowning Her Majesty Luci Baines Azalea...
...know variety: President Arthur was known as "His Accidency"; U. S. Grant found his wife's crossed eyes rather endearing; Andrew Jackson's wife ordered an inaugural veil with the name JACKSON stitched in lace letters from ear to ear; Mrs. Benjamin Harrison had 2,000 azalea plants delivered daily. A supple cast treats this material with greater respect than it merits, but The White House remains less of a tribute to the nation's highest office than a gossipy raid on its prestige...