Word: birdness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Would the President join her for lunch in the mansion, as Lyndon Johnson used to do with Lady Bird? "I can't imagine that," she replied. "He's too busy." And then, with a smile, she added: "I don't want him for lunch. If I don't have anything scheduled," she continued, "I'll call up friends and have them come for lunch. After all, that's what [the mansion...
...Highway Beautification Act of 1965 was one of Lady Bird Johnson's pet projects. Inspired by visions of landscaped and uncluttered thoroughfares, she spearheaded the drive that resulted in a law banning billboards along major rural highways. Skimpy funding slowed down the billboard purge until 1971, but since then some 265,000 have been taken down and another half million slated for removal. Now Lady Bird's accomplishments may well be undermined by legislation expected to emerge from the House Public Works Committee sometime this week...
Next morning, early-bird celebrity-watchers were accorded an unusual sight: the President of the United States, clad only in a pair of baby blue summer pajamas, opening his door to look for his copy of the Washington Post (it arrived late and was passed into the Ford home by a Secret Service man). Seemingly unchanged by the week's events, he chatted with neighbors and reporters, and signed autographs. When would he move into the White House? "I didn't ask yesterday," he replied. "I felt it would not be very appropriate...
...husband's career denied her the more private life she would have preferred, his triumphs should have assured her of honors and deference. Now she has been deprived of even this satisfaction. Pat has lost both ways, and very soon she is bound to learn how Lady Bird Johnson felt after she and her husband returned from the White House to private life. "Suddenly," said Mrs. Johnson wistfully, "all the coaches turn to pumpkins again...
Unlike Jacqueline Kennedy, who redecorated the White House, or Lady Bird Johnson, who promoted a nation al beautification program, Pat never deliberately carved out any special province as First Lady (though she added as many antiques to the White House as Jackie did). She was nonetheless a highly useful political helpmeet to her husband. Her attractive Middle American image, well-groomed but never so conspicuously fashionable to cause envy, could scarcely have been better for a conservative President. She had a talent for small talk and mixing with people that always eluded Nixon. He quickly discovered as well that...