Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...congressional secretary, won a Legion of Merit as a lieutenant aboard the carrier Essex in World War II, managed an Austin radio station, then became attorney for Fort Worth Oil Millionaire Sid Richardson. Tips from Richardson brought Connally a personal fortune of millions through deals in oil properties. The friendship of Johnson, whom Connally served as top strategist in every L.B.J. election campaign since 1937, brought him appointment as Secretary of the Navy under Jack Kennedy...
Marianne Means, White House correspondent for the Hearst papers, popped in on presidential invitation and had a hard time getting away. Johnson made her add her name, alongside Konrad Adenauer's, Ludwig Erhard's and John F. Kennedy's, to the "friendship stone" embedded in a ranch walk. He insisted that she sit next to him at dinner. Before a flight of three helicopters left the ranch, he sent Presidential Aide Jack Valenti over to pluck Marianne from one chopper and reinstall her in the President...
Erhard showed with genuine feeling that he had established a personal friendship with the President, and he was obviously moved when he made his farewell. "Together," he said, "we need not be afraid of this world: together we are strong enough to preserve peace and freedom and justice all over the world. All these questions were discussed in detail and we have been able to state full agreement and full unity of views. This is not just a diplomatic statement; it is just the truth I feel...
...Army Colonel Antoine Argoud, 49, military mastermind of the terrorist Secret Army Organization, last week was sentenced to life imprisonment. Thin and pale, Argoud scarcely looked the part of a conspirator who might plot the death of De Gaulle; yet his trial put a strain on the fragile new friendship between France and West Germany...
...plant, where Chou and his tubby Foreign Minister Chen Yi joined hands with Hoxha and other Albanian greeters to whirl gaily through local folk dances. Seeking more merriment, the group moved on to an army officers' club, where Chen Yi burbled: "Words fail me in this ocean of friendship!" and later to a party at the headquarters of the Artists and Writers Union. At last, amid shouts of "kan pei!" ("bottoms up" in Chinese), Chou finally sat down to a sumptuous banquet. Communist Ruler Enver Hoxha described it as "a family dinner, just as if you were at home...