Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...White House, there was an unaccustomed air of casualness, an unfamiliar atmosphere of tranquillity. President Johnson went through the normal busy week-a state dinner for Norway's King Olav, a jet excursion to Illinois, the appointment of a new ambassador to the U.N. But something was missing, some factor had disappeared from the unique Johnsonian equation. Both the shock and euphoria that followed the President's March 31 abdication speech had disappeared, and the Johnson Administration was slowly, inexorably winding down toward its self-set demise on January...
...sure, 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...
...this marriage be saved? Felix tries, by allowing his partner to invite a couple of British birds for dinner. While Oscar plays the randy dandy, Felix hilariously glums up the works by showing pictures of his ex-wife and kids to the girls until they dissolve into enough tears to drown the evening. After a series of megatonic comic explosions, the men learn enough about themselves to try a second go with their former lives...
...election at Harvard was coordinated by the Harvard Undergraduate Council, and held in dining halls during lunch and dinner...
Rising for a few additional remarks. Sullivan noted that his physical fitness director at the "Y" was waiting outside to run off the dinner. And then he quoted Adlai Stevenson: "'The best of one's life is one's friends'--tonight has proven the truth of that remark...