Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Remote Summit. Late last week, the President, Lady Bird and Daughter Luci waited in the darkness at the White House south portico as the Nixons drew up in a big white Continental on loan from the White House motor pool. Inside, Nixon and Johnson talked in the Oval Office for more than an hour and a half; it was their second encounter since Election Day. They discussed everything from housekeeping in the Executive Mansion to Viet Nam, the Middle East, and a possible summit meeting with the Russians before the President leaves office...
...Johnson urged such a meeting, arguing that the Soviets seem genuinely eager to talk about mutual reduction in missile stockpiles, and possibly even to discuss more dramatic bilateral arms cuts. But, said Johnson, he would not go ahead without Nixon's approval. Nixon did not favor the idea, and the chances of a summit before Jan. 20 now seem remote. The two men agreed to meet at least once again before Johnson leaves office...
...becoming almost obligatory for foreign bigwigs to call on the President-elect as well as on the President himself: Is rael's General Moshe Dayan came to see Nixon last weekend, and this week the Amir of Kuwait, in the U.S. on the last state visit of Johnson's term of office, was to pay a courtesy call on the President-elect. Gradually but inexorably, the power of the U.S. presidency was shifting from Lyndon Johnson to Richard Nixon...
...chauffeured Rolls to start an afternoon round of shopping. Julie went to Bonniers, Bonwit Teller and Bendel's. Julie's wedding shoes, low-heeled white satin pumps with tiny seed-pearl bows in the back, come from Bendel's. Priscilla of Boston, who produced Luci Baines Johnson's 1966 wedding to Patrick Nugent, rounded up the wedding gown, bridesmaids' dresses and trousseau. The bridesmaids will wear pink...
Democratic officials claimed that Lyndon Johnson had intended to nominate Arthur J. Goldberg to replace Warren but that Richard Nixon deliberately subverted the President's plan. According to the scenario circulating in Washington, Johnson had been considering naming Goldberg since Oct. 2, after his original choice, Abe Fortas, was denied