Word: lucie
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson is particularly susceptible to respiratory ailments because of a recurring bronchial weakness first contracted during high-altitude flying in World War II. He developed a scratchy throat and cough. On Friday night-with Lady Bird and Lynda gone, and Luci Baines out on a date-the President was pretty much alone in the White House and, according to aides, feeling a little sorry for himself. The White House physician, Rear Admiral George Burkley, gave him aspirin, some Declomycin and a dose of "the brown mixture," a generation-old cough remedy...
...President called Burkley again, complained of heavy coughing and pains in his throat and chest, and Burkley decided that it would be best to send Johnson to the hospital. Luci, who had just come home from her date, climbed into the ambulance with her father and got a room near his at the hospital...
Shuffled Beds. With all these people staying at the White House and across the street at Blair House (where Margaret Truman Daniel and her husband were putting up), a lot of beds and rooms needed reshuffling. Luci gave up her bedroom for a dressing-room cot to make space for several good Texas friends; Lynda Bird shared her yellow boudoir with a girl friend, and Governor John Connally got to sleep in Lincoln...
...Johnson meet in Paris in an atmosphere of cordiality to discuss the MLF. Johnson calls De Gaulle a "great statesman with a magnificant understanding of history whose importance to the strength of the West is unquestioned," De Gaulle in reply terms Johnson a "very perceptive leader." Linda and Luci captivate the City of Light by doing the Watusi before the Congolese Embassy. Johnson introduces himself at a state dinner in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles by saying "I am the man who accompanied the Watusi to Paris." Seventeen indignant representatives of nationalistic African countries stalk...
...friends despair of trying to explain him. "He doesn't fit into any established mold or pattern," says Governor Connally. After their first encounter, Lady Bird said of him: "I knew I'd met some thing remarkable, but I didn't know quite what." And Daughter Luci, 17, once declared with a helpless shrug: "I can't ever tell what he is going to do. He can't either...