Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...steamy Sunday morning last July, Lyndon Johnson assembled 75 friends and aides in the White House movie theater for a 35-minute prayer service conducted by his weekend guest, Evangelist Billy Graham. It was all very informal. Graham read a few verses from the Bible, paid gracious tribute to the Johnsons in a brief sermon, and later joined the impromptu congregation for coffee and small talk in the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden. The idea for the service was Johnson's. However, when he was told that no similar rite had ever been held in the Executive Mansion, he hastily clamped...
...White House and Richard Nixon's first press conference as President-the throwaway line was bound to elicit laughter. One of the first things he had done to cut down on crime in the capital, deadpanned the President, was to turn on the White House lights that Lyndon Johnson had turned off five years...
...Secretary of the Interior, Stewart Udall was never a man to think small. His last gesture before leaving office was to proclaim the addition of 7,500,000 acres to the National Parks System. That announcement proved to be premature when President Johnson turned down Udall's proposal and approved the allocation of a mere 384,500 acres. The public snub prompted the Secretary angrily to shout an offer of resignation to President Johnson over the telephone, an incident that Udall now greatly regrets...
...witness before the court of inquiry last week was Rear Admiral Frank L. Johnson, former commander of U.S. Naval Forces, Japan, who had operational responsibility for Pueblo's mission. Most of Johnson's testimony was classified and presented behind closed doors. Later, however, he delivered a "sanitized" version in open court...
...bland, beefy hero of World War II who is now waiting out retirement, Johnson testified that while he had responsibility for Pueblo, he had no ships or planes under his command to send to her rescue. Contingency plans were developed calling for the Seventh Fleet and Fifth Air Force to provide help should it be needed...