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...time, place or local custom, nearly all weddings exert the same powerful tug: they draw all but the young back through the years to luxuriate, if only briefly, in their own memories. Last week millions of Americans took this trip to reverie, propelled by the nationalized nuptials of Luci Baines Johnson, the first daughter of an incumbent President to marry in 31 years, and Patrick John Nugent, the boy from Waukegan, Ill., who brashly wooed...
Hand in Hand. Luci's last days as Miss Johnson and her first as Mrs. Nugent were, like Luci herself, a beguiling blend of the gay and the sentimental, the hectic and the religious, the Texan and the presidential. There were parties every day, starting with a reception for the diplomatic corps, progressing through a Western-style cookout to a black-tie dinner dance on the wedding eve, where President Johnson sentimentally declared in a toast that he was "as proud as a man can be when his youngest daughter is doing the most wonderful thing in the world...
...Luci, the transition from White House Venus to Heritage Way housewife may not be as wrenching as it sounds. Despite her well-cushioned upbringing, life with Father has not always been easy, and she seems genuinely eager for a more relaxed and simple life. "I know there will be times of trouble," she says, "as there have been before, and I can't go running home to Mother and Daddy. But I feel we'll be able to solve the problems. We can take the bad with the good." Lady Bird's "philosopher" adds with hill-country...
Crypto-Republican? Pat's discretion with the press obviously pleases the White House. "It's Luci's wedding," he maintains. When pressed, he has insisted: "This is my private life and I will not discuss it." Once, venturing a little further than usual when asked what it was like to be betrothed to a President's daughter, Pat replied succinctly: "I've never been engaged before." Nor, for that matter, has he ever previously been identified with the Democrats. No one will say whether Pat inherited his parents' Republican sympathies or how he voted...
Regular Guy. Pat, meanwhile, has reacted stoically to the brouhaha. In his few appearances at public functions with Luci he has displayed studied sang-froid and said exactly what his position called for: virtually nothing. Luci's fiancé, an acquaintance observed, has "a chameleon personality that allows him to fit in anywhere...