Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refused to guarantee his delegation for Johnson, because Johnson had pushed through the 1960 civil rights bill. Florida's Governor LeRoy Collins advised Daniel that his state was not solid for Lyndon; North Carolina, Alabama and Louisiana, among others, registered the same point. Finally, Daniel called off the breakfast meeting, lest Johnson be embarrassed at the outcome...
...eccentricities with him until fame had transformed them into legend. He seldom washed, changed his shirt or had a haircut; he could live for hours, even days, on cigarettes and coal black coffee, then eat twelve eggs, two quarts of milk and an entire loaf of bread in one breakfast. Wild-eyed and forever talking with all the intensity of his written prose, he sprayed everyone in range with reservoirs of spittle from the corners of his mouth. Some thought him ludicrous, but thousands worshiped the ground his feet never quite touched. Sooner or later he accused all his friends...
...also a city full of important people. For breakfast one day, 125 Representatives appeared on the Hill to meet Billy, while 56 Senators turned up for a lunch given by Lyndon Johnson, Everett Dirksen, Frank Carlson and George Smathers. Pat and Dick Nixon attended one of Billy's regular meetings. Said Billy's campaign director, the Rev. Walter Smith: "We religiously-if I may use the term-stay out of politics...
During his hour-and-a-quarter breakfast with President Eisenhower last week, New York's Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller was like a well-behaved nephew who gave no hint that he was planning to explode a firecracker right in his uncle's lap. Rockefeller chatted amiably about the future of the Republican Party and the importance of "issues" in the coming campaign. Recalled the President later with a twinkle: "Nelson said I'd been a pretty good President. He didn't have much to quarrel about except the defense budget...
...absence of her commuting, city-working husband, she is first of all the manager of home and brood, and beyond that a sort of aproned activist with a penchant for keeping the neighborhood and community kettle whistling. With children on her mind and under her foot, she is breakfast getter ("You can't have ice cream for breakfast because I say you can't"); laundress, house cleaner, dishwasher, shopper, gardener, encyclopedia, arbitrator of children's disputes, policeman ("Tommy, didn't your mother ever tell you that it's not nice to go into people...