Word: garnering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Celebrity Golf (NBC, 5-5:30 p.m.). Sam Snead v. Maverick's Jim Garner...
...longest-lived of all U.S. Vice Presidents (and older than any President lived to be), Uvalde, Texas' own John Nance ("Cactus Jack") Garner, turned 92 and didn't care who knew it. Gone were the cigars and bourbon and branch water ("striking a blow for liberty") that he gave up just before his 90th birthday. He is still quick to provide visitors with the wherewithal to strike their own blows, but his current personal quaff is just plain grapefruit juice...
...Washington political correspondent and a Hearst-chain analyst for 30 years, who wrote a front-page column in the Washington Post from 1917 to 1929, covered every national political convention since 1908 except the 1932 Democratic gathering, during which William Randolph Hearst Sr. assigned him to persuade John Nance Garner to yield his votes to F.D.R.; of a stroke; in Chicago...
...Chester Bowles to be his agents at White House briefings on foreign affairs (but Ike himself said he would give classified information to nobody but Kennedy or Johnson). Other folks were reminded that, come to think of it, F.D.R., the Northern liberal, had once chosen Texas Conservative John Nance Garner as his running mate ("Garner regretted it the rest of his life," said a Texan ruefully. "I hope Johnson doesn't") and recalled how Adlai Stevenson's No. 2 man in 1952 was Alabama's Senator John Sparkman...
...Texas to the Rocky Mountains (in February, for the second successive year, Johnson and his partisans tried and failed to get Texas admitted to the Democratic conference of Western states). In public, Johnson pooh-poohs the notion that a Southerner can't win. "Hell," he snorted recently, "Jack Garner was on a national ticket in 1936, and the Democrats took 'em all except Maine and Vermont." But Franklin Roosevelt was on the topside of that ticket, and times were different. Texas is still Texas, and Johnson is still a son of the South, and even his civil rights...