Word: hubert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Things look rosy at the wedding until Cardinal Pandulph, the Papal Legate, orders France not to ally herself with England as long as John refuses to support the Church's choice for Archbishop of Canterbury. In the ensuing battle, John captures Arthur and orders Hubert, a faithful servant, to kill the boy. Hubert cannot bids him escape, claiming Arthur died in his sleep...
...King's advisers, suspecting foul play, defect to France before Hubert confesses to John that Arthur lives. When Arthur dies trying to escape, the nobles find his body outside the city gate and grow more incensed. The French invade England under the Dauphin's command, only to be beaten back. The nobles find it expedient to return to John's fold when they learn the Dauphin plans to kill them. By now the King is a broken man who dies of poison, the ever-loyal Phillip the Bastard by his side...
...timing was inappropriate and Johnson held back. When the announcement came in March, Johnson confided immediately to Connally that he regretted the move, and continued to look for ways to retain his office. On the Tuesday of the week of the Democratic convention, Johnson sent Connally to see Hubert Humphrey. Connally warned the Vice President not to break with Johnson over the Viet Nam War, or he would begin a draft-Johnson movement at the following day's roll call...
...John Wayne the Man. He may have won a Congressional medal, but he could never have won a Purple Heart; 20 years before he called for draft resisters to be jailed and beat in the kidneys with large branches, he was a draft dodger himself, along with Hubert Humphrey and other hawkish cancer victims. No, Wayne didn't want to fight Hitler-he might get hurt. But he didn't mind thrashing his wives, who couldn't fight back, Puerto Rican women he found in Personals in El Diario...
Carlson still has so deep a respect for a dollar that he continues to pump his own gas at a self-service station. But he generously donated $1 million to the drive, of which he is codirector, to raise $20 million for the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. He is active in other charities and has finally delegated enough authority to set aside time for regular sessions of swimming and tennis. But the companies remain his passion. A pillow on Carlson's gold-striped sofa reads: "I love this business. Sit down...