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Louisiana's Democratic Congressman Hale Boggs had a complaint about the New Frontier, and he aired it to the whole country in a TV interview. Every time he had been invited to the White House for breakfast, he said, all they ever served was "tasteless" Yankee-style waffles and scrambled eggs-never any real Louisiana cooking. Why, they didn't even put any chicory in the coffee or supply Tabasco sauce for the eggs...
When Boggs trudged resignedly back to the White House last week to attend another breakfast for legislative leaders, waiters set in front of him a big bowl of steaming hominy grits, Tabasco sauce for his eggs, and hot coffee with plenty of chicory. Marveled Boggs: "That breakfuss improved the likes of which I never...
Measured by the company he keeps and the gatherings he attends, Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson seems to be a busy and important man on the New Frontier. Last week he attended the President's weekly legislative breakfast and his press conference briefing, sat in on private presidential chats with congressional leaders, went to a foreign aid briefing, and drank toasts at a White House dinner in honor of Chief Justice Warren, House Speaker McCormack and the Vice President. In his two years as Vice President, he has traveled to Southeast Asia and Europe as a representative...
...Savoy Hilton Hotel). Outraged, the British sent to New York a relay of executives, who camped out in Zeckendorf's Madison Avenue offices to try to halt his acquisitions. But, in his own inimitable way, Zeckendorf confounded the British Expeditionary Force. He made his deals at breakfast, while driving in his car, at midnight meetings-and sometimes tumbled his British directors out of bed at 3 a.m. by transatlantic phone to ask them politely to approve deals they knew little about...
...your picture showing Governor Peabody serving his wife breakfast in bed: Is his first name Chub or Chump...