Word: cooked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that hard work, and I wind up a poor man," he says. "The poor family, it wants the same things as the middle-class family. If it can't have them, it causes trouble." Subsisting on a diet of canned food ("I'm not much of a cook"), sandwiches and an occasional dinner with a daughter, he looks forward to social security payments that will begin next year. "I don't like that welfare much," he says, "and I sure don't mind workin'. Besides, I don't want to go through all that stuff you gotta go through...
...knew the people trusted us as much as they trusted any white man. We took part in their activities. One night we went to a fair in School 64--the Harriet Beecher Stowe School. Sunday morning, we went to one of the local Baptist churches. The neighbors would occasionally cook something for us--fried fish, perhaps, or a cake. The smaller kids adopted us and conducted guerrilla forays in the name of McCarthy. But they were our only converts...
...were scarcely perceptible. Flying to Chicago in midweek, the President was given a dizzying reception by Mayor Richard Daley's faithful machine. Johnson reiterated his constant theme these days-national unity. "However strong, however prosperous, however just its purposes or noble its cause," he told a dinner of Cook County Democrats, "no nation can long endure when citizen is turned against citizen, cause against cause, section against section, generation against generation by the mean and selfish spirit of partisanship...
Then two years ago, after Billy Rose's death, the chance to work in one of the most glamorous households in the U.S. came Annemarie's way: cooking for Jacqueline Kennedy. Although it meant cutting her salary in half (and signing an agreement never to write about Jackie), Annemarie did not hesitate. A girl for all seasonings, she could turn out French, German and Italian dishes, and once in a while Chinese. Best of all, she got John Jr. and Caroline to devour their spinach by decorating it with little egg-white faces. Last Christmas, Mrs. Kennedy...
...offers of up to $35,000 poured in. TV programs, including Johnny Carson, vied for her appearance (reports notwithstanding, she had not made a pilot film), and publishers bid for her cookbook (still uncompleted). As for Jacqueline Kennedy, at week's end she was still looking for another cook...