Word: ladybirds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dips below the 20 per cent mark in the latest Louis Harris Poll. Arm in-arm with Ladybird and their two beagles, the President reminds reporters, "I'm still more popular than Jesus." Harrison Salisbury is arrested in Hanoi after photographing smiling North Vietnamese children in front of intact building...
...newsmen, her own twelve-man entourage, and Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, she floated (with paddle) down eleven miles of the shallow Rio Grande in Texas' Big Bend National Park to dramatize her beautify-and see-the-U.S.A. campaigns. Everything came off more or less swimmingly as the ladybird watchers went over the side in search of closeups or simply fell off, like the stretch-pantsed newswoman who jammed her parasol at a ranger's eye as she went under. But the press got their waterlogged copy out, which was the whole idea anyway. As the White House...
...When she was two, her Negro nurse landsaked, "Lawd, she's purty as a ladybird," and the name stuck. A ladybird, as it is called in the Southwest, is not a bird at all, but a black-dotted little beetle, otherwise known as a ladybug...
...floor-length sheath of pink and white straw lace, wore just one piece of jewelry: a feather-shaped diamond clip in her bouffant hair. At a signal, the Marine Band's dance orchestra in the East Room struck up Mr. Wonderful; Vice President Lyndon Johnson and his wife Ladybird joined the Kennedys in leading the first dance. Afterward, Jack stood at one end of the ballroom greeting guests while Jackie toured the floor with a battalion of successive partners. The verdict on her footwork, as announced by Florida's Senator George Smathers: "She's divine...