Word: hussein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...town for talks with the President was Jordan's King Hussein, and the Johnsons gave a state dinner in his honor. After the dinner, the Johnsons and their 151 guests repaired to the East Room, where Jazzman Dave Brubeck played three selections for Jazz Fan Hussein. Then it was away to the white-walled Blue Room for dancing...
...Open up the windows," the President ordered as the Air Force's Strolling Strings struck up a waltz. With that he was off, twirling every lady within arm's reach. For his part, being a King, Hussein could not ask a woman to dance; she had to ask him. The first was Lady Bird Johnson, radiant in lemon chiffon. One of the last was Trude Feldman, diminutive (4 ft. 10½ in.) correspondent for the Los Angeles Reporter, a Jewish weekly. It was an agreeable match in height at least, and Hussein, only 5 ft. 6 in. tall...
...What does your father do?" inquired Hussein, making some kingly small talk as he moved Reporter Feldman over the waxed parquet floor...
...Arabia's King Saud, who once spent $5,300,000 trying to procure Nasser's assassination, was embraced and kissed by the man he tried to kill. Yemen's pudgy President Abdullah Sallal sat genially beside his bitter enemies, King Saud and Jordan's King Hussein, who have invested money and munitions in seeking the overthrow of Sallal's regime...
...disputed boundary with blood, but last week in Cairo, Morocco's King Hassan II and Algeria's ebullient Ahmed ben Bella warmly agreed to mediation. Jordan and Saudi Arabia reopened diplomatic relations with Egypt, which also re-established relations with Tunisia and Morocco. Jordan's King Hussein, so often in the past denounced by Nasser as a hireling and imperialist stooge, emotionally explained that his nation only accepted Anglo-American aid in order to become selfsupporting...