Word: breakfasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Breakfast with Harry. All week Johnson kept the world body on tenterhooks as to whether he would or would not be there. First he spread the word that he would not go unless he had something new and important to say. Then, even while confiding that his speech would not live up to that standard, he agreed to attend anyway. Then, at the last minute, he decided to arrive a day earlier than scheduled, throwing the celebration program into considerable confusion. Adding to the less than festive atmosphere was a blast by U.S. Republicans on the eve of Johnson...
...west, Johnson stopped off to visit an old friend in Kansas City -Harry S. Truman, who occupied the White House when the U.N. was formed. For an hour, the 33rd and 36th Presidents of the U.S. talked over a breakfast table about the business of being President, and exchanged compliments. "In my historical memory, no President has made such an impression in the early part of his Administration as you have," said Truman. "We are deeply in debt to Mr. Truman for his vision," said Johnson. "And this is not a mutual admiration society," said Truman...
...Procter & Gamble President Howard Morgens and Alaska Steamship Co. President David Edward Skinner. Five-day clinics for couples who want to perfect their mixed doubles game are held eight months a year, and the couples are expected to play tennis five hours a day. "We compensate by giving them breakfast in bed, a sauna bath and a massage," Proprietor John Gardiner says...
Some of Lehrer's numbers were old standbys updated ("Back to good old Dixie, where the jasmine and the tear gas smell jes' fine"). Others, like Pollution ("The breakfast garbage that you throw into the Bay / They drink at lunch in San Jose"), were written by Lehrer for TV's That Was the Week That...
...Excellent." "Great." Early in the week, the President called half a dozen of his congressional leaders to the White House for breakfast, urged them to talk up the news of rising profits, paychecks and production. On the way out, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield lost no time in assuring the press that the nation's economic picture is "excellent." Next day, Commerce Secretary John Connor told the National Press Club: "Business is great, and it's going to get even better." At the same time, speaking in Manhattan to the American Marketing Association, Chief Presidential Economist Gardner Ackley...