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...sartorial emulation. Jack Kennedy did. "Suddenly everybody wanted to look like he came from Harvard, or like he thought everyone looked at Harvard," says Grossman. And it is hoped that the floundering hat industry, for which Kennedy's wind-blown look did nothing, will revive under the ten-gallon-Texan inspiration of President Johnson. Fortnight ago Alex Rose, president of the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers International Union, paid a call at the White House and announced President Johnson's blessing for an L.B.J. hat-a lightweight model with a somewhat narrower brim than the five-gallon...
...Club championships; a year later he won the Indy 500. Now 29, Foyt is a $100,000-a-year man, the king of the oval tracks and the "big cars"-the burly Offenhauser roadsters that have only two gears (low and high), turn only to the left, burn a gallon of exotic fuel every four miles...
...Washington, Connally quickly proved himself an able administrator, came to be remarked upon as a tasteful dresser, preferring silky mohair suits, white-on-white shirts-and almost never a ten-gallon hat. His wide travels as Secretary gave him a new view of Texas. "I saw Adenauer in Germany," he recalls. "I saw the emergence of the Common Market. I saw the vitality in Italy. At the Pentagon I saw what education meant, how basic it was, and how lacking Texas was. I looked at Texas, and I saw we were going to miss the boat completely...
Perfect Host. Nearly everyone got a ten-gallon Texas hat from the President. When the Times's Wicker dropped his in some viscous Texas clay, the President wiped it off for him, using the presidential handkerchief. Always he was the perfect host. The Scotch never ran out. The President regaled his guests with stories from the Roosevelt days, and-off the record-confided all sorts of things: what he thinks about some of his Cabinet, for instance. One night, Johnson even got on the phone to call Phil Potter's editor long distance and report that...
Erhard was enchanted by all the Texas trimmings-including the gift of a ten-gallon hat and a choral rendition of Tief in dem Herzen von Texas. But he was even more taken with Johnson himself. During an hourlong, deer-spotting drive through the countryside, the President confided that he had not been aware before Nov. 22 of the immense pressures involved in formulating the budget, in trying to conserve money while maintaining the world's security. The American people, he said, wanted to do what was right, but even so were growing weary of the burden of foreign...