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...Cabinet Room ceremony, he received a report from the President's Council on Aging, made a vigorous off-the-cuff plea for passage of his medicare bill. Recalling that he and John Kennedy talked about medicare in almost every state in the 1960 campaign, Johnson said that there had been "deafening applause" every time it was mentioned. "So make no mistake about it," he said. "The people are ahead of us in this field. They want this program. They will support this program. They are going to have this program. I think that before the leaves turn brown...
That is only the beginning of the snob-appeal gifts. Tiffany's fastest individual seller is a sterling-silver money clip that costs $3.50. Hammacher Schlemmer offers "Worldtemp" cuff links that register centigrade temperatures on one link and Fahrenheit on the other. Honeywell's $39.95 fishing thermometer comes with 60 ft. of line and a gauge showing which fish bite best at various water temperatures. For $99.50, Abercrombie & Fitch will gift-wrap an instrument that simultaneously tells temperature, humidity, barometric pressure, time of day and day of the week. And for the man who has every thing...
...Janet, a U.S. State Department protest, and an announcement that the mounted cops who had ignored Garcia's pleas for help had been suspended. The final flourish was the arrival of a delegation of East Indian women who brought a document of thanks and a pair of gold cuff links, then placed a garland of pink oleander and purple madaar flowers on the correspondent's stitched-up head...
...historical record, the program is matchless, because no book could give a sense of it nearly so well. It shows Truman at his off-the-cuff best-and worst. In this week's show, for example, he can't resist asserting that generals in general make lousy Presidents. Not only was Grant a bad one, according to Harry, but also "the very recent one, about whom I hesitate to talk...
Speaking off the cuff to a crowd in Quincy House Junior Common Room, flamboyant trial lawyer Melvin Belli last night mentioned in varying detail the topics of the Jack Ruby trial, the self education of Caryl Chessman, the American judicial system, and the weakness of U.S. law schools...