Word: bird
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have just written a letter to Senator Mansfield suggesting that, in the light of his remark in connection with the Pueblo incident, we should admit our guilt, regardless of facts, and that he should introduce into the Senate a bill to change our national bird from the American eagle to a chicken...
After Lyndon Johnson called Peter Kurd's portrait of him "the ugliest thing I ever saw," most people assumed that the Johnsons and the Hurds had reached a parting of the artistic ways. Not so. To celebrate their last anniversary, L.B.J. gave Lady Bird a painting by Henriette Wyeth Hurd, 60, Peter's wife and the sister of Andrew Wyeth. And that may not be the end of it. "I would love to paint Mrs. Johnson," said Henriette. "She has a strong face, brilliant dark eyes, and intense feelings and opinions." All the same, Mrs. Hurd added cautiously...
Luci & Lynda Bird. For all the troubles swirling about him, Johnson was still quick to bristle at charges that his Great Society is being sacrificed to foreign crisis. "It's just a bunch of blarney," he declared. "When I hear this argument that we can't protect freedom in Europe, Asia, or our own hemisphere and still meet our domestic problems, I think this is a phony argument. It's just like saying I can't take care of Luci because I have Lynda Bird...
...reminder of his pledge; one part goes to local headquarters, with instructions as to whether he needs transportation or a baby sitter on primary election day; one part, marked "White House Copy," is presumably sent to the President. In the return mail comes a photograph of Johnson and Lady Bird sitting in Air Force...
What if the client insists on selecting something in atrocious taste? Some decorators refuse to buy the offending object, though few go as far as Lady Bird Johnson's favorite designer, Washington's Genevieve Hendricks. When she is overruled, she likes to preserve her integrity by pinning a note to the underside of the disputed chair or sofa stating, "I, Genevieve Hendricks, do not approve this piece of furniture." Others are more tolerant. "I like eccentricities-if they are the eccentricities of the owner," says Billy Baldwin. "I approve of permitting the wrong note in a room...