Word: cynodon
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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Lest newsmen conclude that he had gone too far back to Cynodon roots, Press Secretary Bill Moyers assured an interviewer that even when Johnson is fingering a field of grass he has a hand on the nation's pulse. Averred Moyers: "He has a great natural gift for knowing, feeling and sensing the mood of the American people...
...point, the President, looking tanned and cheerful, decided to go all the way back to the grass roots. Braking the car, he leaped out, plucked handfuls of Bermuda grass (Cynodon dactylori) from a field and nuzzled the blades as if they were orchids. "Look at that," the President cried jubilantly to reporters. "Isn't that the thickest grass you've ever seen?" Of course. Lyndon planted...
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