Word: fatherness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Again Johnson responded expansively, and this time included a note of compassion for his successor. "My father told me one time, when I was a little boy," Johnson remembered, "that I'd never know what it meant to be a father until I was a father. And one never knows what it is to be a President until you are a President." He continued: "We are very proud to stand behind you and to support you in your earnest quest for peace in the world and for prosperity at home. No man occupied the place that you occupy...
...autopsy did not seem necessary immediately after the accident, permitted Mary Jo's body to be shipped to Pennsylvania and, many believe, avoided involvement in the matter until he belatedly saw an opportunity to make political capital out of it. In 1948, Dinis, a Democrat, replaced his late father, an immigrant Portuguese furniture maker, in the Massachusetts state legislature. Ten years ago he became the youngest district attorney ever elected in Massachusetts, but since then his ambition and oratory have failed to carry him to any higher office. Last year he lost a race for a seat...
Advisory Role. Today, the relation ship between father and son has changed. Barren, now 41, is not only president and chief executive of Hilton Hotels (at $100,000 a year), but has considerably widened his father's footsteps since he took charge three years ago. The elder Hilton, who, at 81, remains chairman of the board but contents himself with an advisory role, is delighted with his son's performance. "Things are going very well with us," he says...
Setting Records. Barron came back to the family business by a roundabout route. When his father rebuffed his first effort to land a well-paying Hilton job, the young man began selling fresh fruit juice to Los Angeles dairies. The venture prospered and helped pave Barren's way into the family firm...
...seen singing for his supper of gaseous French pastries at a Greenwich Village coffeehouse and trying to cope with a groupie who announces: "I wanna make it with you 'cause you'll probably get to be an album." By using such figures as Arlo's father Woody and Folk Singer Pete Seeger, Penn establishes a historical continuum. "Seems like Woody's road mighta run through here some time," Arlo says as he lights out to visit his buddies Ray and Alice Brock in Stockbridge, Mass...