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...must have searched endlessly to find any possible justification for the Pat and Luci cover story [Aug. 5]. American soldiers are being killed in Viet Nam, many of our major cities are riot-torn, Britain's financial crisis is in its most crucial hour, and this country is faced with inflation and with crippling strikes. Although you may consider the marriage of Luci Johnson of paramount significance, I think I speak for the overwhelming majority of people who saw your story-who needs...
...Luci's Secret Service code name is Venus, Lynda's Velvet, and Lady Bird's Victoria, then what does that make L.B.J.? Vicissitudinous? Your cover story on Luci and Pat was enjoyable and the cover itself was beautiful...
...When Luci finally got around to trying to cut the 13-tier wedding cake, it balked. The President of the U.S. brought his considerable pressure to bear, but the cake still would not cut. Luci cried, "I quit," but Pat suggested trying the fifth layer. The knife finally cut through, and Pat submitted to the bridegroom's traditional cake-eating indignity. Before the couple made their farewells and departed on an unknown honeymoon about 6:45 p.m., Luci made a last speech from the south balcony, then tossed her bouquet. It wound up, with a little sisterly collusion...
...information continued to dribble out. Pat disclosed to an interviewer that he was a Democrat after all, despite those rumors that he shared his parents' Republican loyalties. The President himself cleared up the question of how the young Nugents would support themselves while attending the University of Texas. Luci, he said, has an income of her own of undisclosed size and source, and Pat's parents, Gerard and Tillie Nugent, had set aside some money for their son's graduate-school education. Further, it developed that the couple would not receive a small ranch in Texas...
...Married. Luci Baines Johnson, 19, and Patrick Nugent, 23; in Washington (see THE NATION...