Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Democratic Dishes. The President and Lady Bird were relaxed and gracious hosts. Standing in the reception line, they chatted and shook hands for half an hour. Dinner did not start until 9 p.m., not too long before such ceremonial White House functions ordinarily start to break up. The tables in the State Dining Room and the nearby Blue Room featured strictly Democratic chinaware: the Truman dishes in the dining room, the Wilson and Roosevelt dishes in the Blue Room. The menu honored the principal guests: the seafood was a la Golden Gate for California's Warren; the chicken...
Winds & Clouds. Later in the week the President went to a dinner of the B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League to receive the Legacy Award for his "distinguished contribution to the enrichment of our democratic heritage." Lyndon took that public opportunity to answer critics who complain that his preoccupation with preserving a U.S. consensus tends to preclude bold presidential action...
...dull job. Why, I enjoy that"), then to speak to a meeting of students, next to the Statler Hilton to address a luncheon of the Advertising Federation of America, back to his office for an afternoon of paper work, and finally into bib and tucker for the White House dinner at which he was one of the honored guests...
...that dinner, the President toasted him: "The office of the Vice President is now held by a man who has long been in the forefront of America's mighty effort to lead the world toward lasting peace, a man who is valuable to our nation and invaluable to me, Hubert Humphrey...
Later Chou had Kosygin to lunch and dinner. Under the circumstances, it was unlikely that the two leaders made much progress toward healing the Sino-Soviet breach or diluting Peking's opposition to Moscow's planned world Communist conference. The Chinese announced merely that a "conversation" took place...