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After Lyndon Johnson called Peter Kurd's portrait of him "the ugliest thing I ever saw," most people assumed that the Johnsons and the Hurds had reached a parting of the artistic ways. Not so. To celebrate their last anniversary, L.B.J. gave Lady Bird a painting by Henriette Wyeth Hurd, 60, Peter's wife and the sister of Andrew Wyeth. And that may not be the end of it. "I would love to paint Mrs. Johnson," said Henriette. "She has a strong face, brilliant dark eyes, and intense feelings and opinions." All the same, Mrs. Hurd added cautiously...
...President even alluded wryly to the furor over his rejection of Artist Peter Kurd's official presidential portrait last month. "The presidency," mused Johnson, "is a hazardous-duty job, and I have learned recently that danger can lurk in unsuspected places. Portrait unveilings, for example...
...would have been easier on Artist Peter Kurd [Jan. 13] if L.B.J. shared Robert Burns's sentiment: "Oh wad some power the giftie gie us. To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us. An' foolish notion...
...Kurd Hurdle. This month AID began the second year of its drive to enlist skilled workers for Viet Nam. In the New York City area, 5,210 applicants, of whom perhaps 200 will qualify, swamped recruiters. Last week in Omaha, 285 responded to AID's campaign, and 23 qualified for serious consideration. The AID party then went on to Denver and Portland, Ore. By Christmas the agency needs 500 new agronomists, public administrators, teachers, economists, engineers, police specialists, auditors, nurses and secretaries...
...spent two years covering the war for us in Viet Nam. Writer William Johnson, for whom this is the 16th cover story, served two years in the Navy, was mustered out as a lieutenant j.g. in 1956, and has written many of our major Viet Nam stories. For Peter Kurd, who was a combat artist for LIFE in World War II, the frames of reference were many. He discovered that the Army officer who came to pose for the combat figure in the cover background had attended his alma mater, the New Mexico Military Institute. He has a 20-year...