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...night," she recalled, "and it just stayed that way." They went paddle-boating, with a Secret Service agent paddling in their wake. They had picnics along the Potomac, flew up to New York to see the World's Fair and a Broadway show. They zipped around Washington in Luci's green Sting Ray convertible for a while, but this nettled Pat's pride; he borrowed his father's 1963 Plymouth until he bought his own car. Yet it was several weeks before Washington gossips realized that Students Jack Olsen and Paul Betz, Luci's previous...
Algernon & Nellie. Eventually, of course, newsmen caught on, but Luci's new steady rated little attention from the press until October. At First Friday Mass, Pat proposed and was accepted. Luci received a ring made from Pat's Alpha Kappa Psi fraternity pin, which she has never worn in public. By the end of the month, headlines predicting their marriage bounced around the world. The President was at the L.B.J. ranch, recuperating from his gall-bladder operation, when Pat and Luci flew there on Oct. 29-presumably to obtain his permission to marry. It was widely surmised...
Actually, Luci insists that they did not even mention matrimony to Lyndon that weekend. The big confrontation-surely one of the most unnerving encounters in the annals of courtship-occurred a couple of weeks later when the President returned briefly to the White House. As Luci entered the selfservice elevator with her father, Pat high-signed that he would meet her in the solarium. "Where's Pat?" the President demanded. "Well, I want to see him. Go get him." Pat was duly summoned into the presidential bedroom on the second floor. Asked Johnson: "What's all this stuff...
...oration over, they-meaning Lyndon-discussed what Luci called "the pros and cons," while Pat, Luci and Lady Bird listened. Despite Aristotle's advice that "it is fitting for the women to be married at about the age of 18," Luci's age was an issue. "He brought up the fact that I still had school to finish," she recalls, "but then he said that married couples make better grades. He said the chances are that I might not be able to finish college, but then he said that I could go back and take courses later." Having...
...their guests be invited to the reception as well as the ceremony. As the pre-wedding activities escalated, the White House requested that some of the parties, showers and receptions for the bride be canceled because the "wedding was becoming more of a spectacular than Mrs. Johnson and Luci feel it ought...